We reviewed terms and author/titles today. Looks like the class needs to review the authors and titles. Wednesday, we'll have a quiz on the Paradise Lost vocabulary. You can get the list from the previous blog or it is on the board in our room. We'll finish off Paradise Lost tomorrow, which means we have just two more works and we'll be finished the Renaissance so prepare for a test on unit 2 in January. We'll use Wednesday and Friday classes to review for your Dec. 13th exam.
Study daily as there is simply too much content to leave it all the the day before.
Excellent work on Paradise Lost today. Read over the section we did today and I bet it will seem so much easier to read now. Look for the sympathetic way that Milton treats Eve. Why is that? How is Satan and hell portrayed? What question about God is he attempting to answer? Why? Why does he invoke the muse, Urania?
Don't get overwhelmed by the periodic sentences. Figure out what is the subject of each one and then you'll see how the extra details are their to add to the epic tone and create this amazingly visual masterpiece.
It's like a film on paper, isn't it?
Now, what is the difference between blank verse and free verse? Found any epic similes yet?
