Friday, June 10, 2011

Lit 12, Friday, June 10

We discussed the poem, "Pretty," by Stevie Smith. Be sure to get the notes. We didn't finish so we'll complete it on Monday. One more core poem to go.

Tues: We'll review Hamlet.

Mock English 12 exam is today after school, room 323.

We did a quotation quiz today. Be sure to bring a note to explain your absence if you wish to receive marks for this test.

This weekend, complete the quiz below:

Lit 12 Quiz:  First, Middle and Last Lines

First Lines

1.     As virtuous men pass mildly away / And whisper to their souls, to go
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
2.     Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
3.     When I consider how my light is spent
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
4.     The linnet in the rocky dells, / The moor lark in the air
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
     5.     My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
             My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
6.     There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is rapture on the lonely shore
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
    
Middle Lines

1.     In all my dreams, before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
2.     She smiled to see the doughty hero slain,
But, at her smile, the beau revived again.
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
3.     At once a voice rose among / The bleak trees overhead
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
4.     Perhaps the selfsame song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
5.     The Sea of Faith / was once, too, at the full
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
6.     This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours.
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________

Final Lines

1.     And forward, thou I canna see / I guess an’ fear!
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
2.     Noli me Tangere, for Caesar’s I am
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
3.     Thus these two murderers received their due,
So did the treacherous young poisoner too
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
4.     For thy sweet love remembered such wealth bring
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
5.     The trumpet of a prophecy! O wind,
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________
6.     I first surmised the horses’ head / Were towards eternity.
Title:     __________________________________________
Author: __________________________________________






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