2.  Birth/death
 Family
 Family relationships
 Education
 Where they grew up
 What they wanted to do
 Adult life: location, profession,
relationships

3. LORD BYRON WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 Born: 1788, London  Born: 1770, Cumberland
 Born to aristocratic parents,  Parents died when he was
lived with his mother in young, close to one sister
Scotland  Studied at Cambridge,
 Graduated from didn’t graduate
Cambridge  Moved to France to part of
 Became a member of the the Revolution
House of Lords  Fell in love with a French
 Left England for woman, had a daughter
Switzerland due to  Married at least once
persecution for defending  Close friend: Coleridge
oppressed peoples  Poetry published during his
 Many romances lifetime and posthumously
 Close friend: Shelly  Died: 1850, age 80
 Fought in Italy and Greece
 Died: 1824, age 36

4. Pg. 94
 Compare & contrast the rhyme scheme
of ‘She walks in beauty’ and ‘I wandered
lonely as a cloud’
‘She walks in beauty’
• ABABAB-CDCDCD-EFEFEF ; 3 stanzas of 6
lines ; iambic tetrameter
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
• ABABCC-DEDEFF-GHGHII-JKJKLL; 4 stanzas of
6 lines; iambic tetrameter

5.  Does Lord Byron describe a woman that
is merely beautiful on the outside? Is
there a deeper beauty?
• She has ‘nameless grace’(8)
• serene, sweet thoughts(11)
• eloquence(14)
• goodness(16)
• mind at peace(17)
• innocent heart(18)
 What part of the woman does Byron
describe? Why?
• Her face/head; he mentions her eyes, hair, face,
cheeks and smile

6. 4. The poem talks about light and dark. List
the phrases where this happens
a. Line 1-’like the night’
b. Line 2-’cloudless climes and starry skies’
c. Line 3-’dark and bright’
d. Line 5-’mellowed to that tender light’
e. Line 7-’one shade the more, one ray the
less’
f. Line 9-’raven tress’
g. Line 10-’softly lightens’
h. Line 15-’the tints that glow’

7.  In your opinion, why do you think Lord
Byron uses wording of light and dark?
 Why does the poet compare the woman
to "night" instead of to "day"?
 Who is the woman he’s writing about?
 How is a woman’s physical and inner
beauty often described today?

9. Pg.7
9
 Interest in the common man and
childhood
 Strong senses, emotions, and feelings
 Awe of nature
 Celebration of the individual
 Importance of imagination

10. Work in small groups to analyze one of the
six poems using the worksheet on pg. 99
Your group should submit one copy of the
worksheet next week.
*make sure to write it on a separate sheet of
paper

11. Pg.87-
88
 right-hive
 Margaret got a velvet
 Symbol hat
 Imagery  The poem made me
feel confident and
 Mood brave
 Assonance  The wood crackled
 Consonance and popped with the
heat of the fire
 Dove=peace

12. Opposite of what is meant; a general term
for the contrast between appearance and
reality; a contrast between what appears
to be true and what is true.
-Verbal irony (p. 68)-e.g. someone
says ‘nice day, isn’t it?’ during a rainstorm
-Situational irony (p. 113)-e.g. a king is
sad after killing his enemy

14.  A figure of speech/joke involving a ‘play on’
words (express two meanings at the same
time)
• The gorilla went ape when he saw the
bananas.
• On the side of the diaper delivery truck was
written "Rock a Dry Baby."

15.  Self-contradictory terms used together
Examples:
• plastic glasses
• honest lawyer
• jumbo shrimp
• soft rock
• clearly misunderstood
• pretty ugly
• Small crowd

16. The use of a word that suggests the sound it makes;
creates clear sound images and helps a writer
draw attention to certain words; examples include
buzz, pop, hiss, moo, hum, murmur, crackle, crunch,
and gurgle

17. Figure of speech that uses understatement for
effect, often by using double negatives
 “Not unattractive” (as
a means of saying)  “attractive”
 "He was not  "He was well
unfamiliar with the acquainted with the
works of Dickens.“ works of Dickens.“
 "She is not so  "She is kind.”
unkind.“
 "You are not wrong."  "You are correct."

18. climax
Start to outline these
aspects of your story and
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p.113 your details

19. Homework:
•Study for quiz: Age of
Enlightenment-19th century
Romanticism
•Pg. 102-105
•Finish group worksheet ‘Is it
Romantic?

20. Literary/sound devices:
 Metaphor
 Vices & virtues  Simile
 Colonialism  Personification
 Impoverished  Alliteration
 Satire/satirist  Imagery
 Textiles  Consonance
 Exploitation  Assonance
 suffrage  onomatopoeia
 Sordid  Irony
 Vacant  Pun
 Pensive  Litotes
 Bliss  Oxymoron
 Piety  Symbol
 Despot  Apostrophe
 dye  Mood
 tone