Sound and Sense: October 7, 2019

Focus: How can sound devices help us unlock poetry?

1. Warming up with three good things

2. Describing two different scenes using only your sense of sound

3. Offering you some of my favorite poetic sound devices

Euphony: Pleasing to the ear, harmonious

Cacophony: Harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounds

Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words (the snake slithered silently)

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds (or, as Eminem refers to it, "Word Bending")


4. Enjoying several poems together using only our ears

• What sounds are you noticing?

• How do the sounds contribute to/create the larger meanings of the poems?

HW:
1. For Tuesday, Oct 8: Read Chapters 20, 21, 22 and 23; create your next Socratic ticket.

2. For Friday, Oct 11: Read Chapters 24, 25, and 26; create your next Socratic ticket.

3. By Monday, October 14 (over a week away), you must MEMORIZE your sonnet.