Nine Elements of Poetry

Daddy's Poem by Unknown What's the dramatic situation? The poem is told by both female and male by which they both tell a story about a young girl that does not have a father because he passed a way while at work as a fireman. This poem is written in today's world and the speaker seems to be in the classroom with the little girl in the poem. Structure of the Poem: The structure of this poem is written as a story, there are no stanzas, and it just flows. Theme of the poem: The theme of this poem would be 'love'. This poem includes love between a daughter and a father. This love is reflected in the poem because the little girl explains how much she loves her daddy even though he is not physically with her because he is in heaven. Images and Figures of Speech: I can see the mother of the little girl worried as she sees her daughter go up there. I can see all the people talking about her without knowing the truth behind why the little girl's dad could not be there. I can see the little girl up there as she speaks with confidence and all the other people in awes. I can feel the love that this girl has for her father. I can feel her happiness as she talks about how great of a father she has. I can feel my presence there as I am reading the poem. Important words: "Looks like another deadbeat dad, too busy to waste his day." "I love my daddy very much, he's my shining star. And if he could, he'd be here, but heaven's just too far..." Tone: The author of this poem seems to have a very serious poem in which he is trying to send out a message to all the audience. There is no type of humor in this poem whatsoever. He makes all the characters become amazed to what the little girl say as well as the audience too. Literary Techniques: *Apostrophe- '"I know you're with me Daddy,"  to the silence she called out.' *Imagery- 'A room full of daddies and children, all starting to close their eyes. Who knows what they saw before them, who knows what they felt inside. Perhaps for merely a second, they saw him at her side.' *Anaphora- 'Her hair was up in a pony tail, her favorite dress tied with a bow.' *Personification- 'by the love of her shining star' Prosody: This poem rhymes at every other verse and it flows with the uses of different punctuation like semicolons, commas, and even periods.

Paragraphs on AP Intro Essay Exam

1. Write 1-2 paragraphs about the test in which you answer the following questions (you may post to your blog or bring hard copy to class Friday 2.17):

• What was easy/expected?
• What was difficult/unexpected?
• What did you learn about the AP questions?
• What did you learn about your own performance under pressure?
• How will this experience influence your preparation for the actual exam?

The exam taken today I thought was pretty difficult to do. For example the first one with the quote, I did not understand what the quote meant which really made it impossible for me to get the introduction done right. The second question though is the only question that I would say that I'm actually certain about because I did understand the question but the last one was a little iffy. I learned that these AP questions may have really difficult words and that I need to learn how to analyze any quotes given to me until I know exactly what each of them mean so that I will address the prompt accurately. I learned that by being under pressure, I tend to just barely think about what I am going to write and just end up writing whatever comes to my head whether I know it's write or wrong. This experience will help me in the way that I will think more about what I'm going to write rather than just start writing because I noticed that when I just began to write, I had a lot of time left.

A Tale of Two Cities Video Notes

• There was a third city; it was in Manchester.
• Dicken´s in the preface says that he has suffered what he wrote about.
• He feel in love with Ellen, and divorced his wife the following year.
• Ellen was Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities.
• In May of 1858, seperated from his wife Catherine.
• In Nov. established his new journal and later in April established another one.
• In April 30th of 1859 he wrote chapters 1 thorugh 3 of his novel. 
• London became to be an inspiration to Dicken´s.
• In 1844 he visited Paris and made a great impression towards him.
• Paris was of some kind of 900 thousand people at the time.
• At the end of the novel, he reminds readers about the Puritan landscape.
• Dicken´s visited Paris about 15 times during 1844 to 1868.
• A Tale of Two Cities was one of to historical novels that Dickens wrote.
• The novel takes place during the French Revolution and flips back and fourth to England and France.
• Dicken´s was not a revolutionary.
• Doctor Manette is supposed to be recalled to life in the novel.

Literary Techniques in A Tale of Two Cities

*Antithesis: the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.

Example- In the first sentence of the novel ¨It was the best of times...¨

*Apostrophe: apostrophe is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present.

Example- Mr. Jarvis talks to a ghost in his dream.

*Setting: the locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes plac
Example- Novel takes place in both England and France. It helps the reader understand the theme. The author chooses to compare the two places.

*Theme: the central message of the writing.
Example- The theme is rebirth because a revolution is taking place and when they happen, the countries are reborn again. ¨Recalled to life¨

*Diction: style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.
Example- Dicken´s uses words that fit in with the time period they were in.

*Syntax: the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. 

*Symbolism: is when writers use animals, elements, things, places, or colors to represent other things.
Example- Framer and Woodman represent death and fate in the novel.


*Anaphora: a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
Example- At the beginning, Dicken´s repeats the words ¨it was.¨


*Tone: the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers.
Example- The author´s tone in the novel is dark/gloomy because they are in a bad political/spiritual state.


*Genre: A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
Example- The genre of the novel is historical fiction.


*Dialect: A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Example- Dicken´s uses words like ¨ain´t¨, ¨hallo¨, and ¨do ya?¨


*Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Example- The wine casket that breaks represents how a war is about to break out and the wine represents all the blood.

Study Questions: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Ch. 1-7

What is the setting at the beginning of this novel?

• The setting at the beginning of the novel would be in London and later in Dover in the year 1775. 

How does Dickens describe England? France?

• England is more of a dark setting with ghosts (the Cock-lane Ghosts) and has more religious people. France is more of a dangerous place where many deaths take place and the guillotine is really popular.

Who is Mr. Jarvis and why is Jerry Cruncher looking for him?

•  Mr. Jarvis is a man who works at Tellson´s Bank and they are looking for him to give him a message in which it tells him to go meet someone at Dover.

Who is Jerry Cruncher?

• Jerry Cruncher is a man who also works at Tellson´s Bank. He is the one who gives Mr. Jarvey the message and then is sent to deliver the reply to the message.

Who is Mr. Jarvis´ companion in Chapter 4?

• Mr. Jarvis´companion is a ghost. While they´re together he begins to tell him that he had been buried for 18 years now, then the Mr. Jarvis replies by saying that he has been ¨recalled to life¨. They begin to talk about a woman in which Mr. Jarvis asks if he wants to see and the ghosts begs to see her.

What did the ghost mean by saying Mr. Jarvis has been ¨buried for 18 years¨?   

• The ghost meant that Mr. Jarvis had been nowhere to find in the past years.

What does it mean to be ¨recalled to life¨?

• The character in the story when he was ¨recalled to life¨ it meant that he was given another chance to live again.

What happened to Lucie when she was a little girl? What happened to her father?

• When Lucie was a little girl, her father went to prison. With her not knowing, she was taken to England while she was living in France.  

How does Dr. Manette react when he is asked if he wants to be ¨recalled to life¨? 

• Dr. Manette reacts with confusion and is caught by surprise. He is unsure if he wants to or not. 

How do Dr. Manette and Lucie react when they see each other?

• At first Dr. Manette is confused and thinks that Lucie is his wife. Lucie tries reminding him that he had a daughter and they both end up getting emotional.