Read and make notes on the writer, Samuel Pepys, page 358. Next, read his diary and make notes on his observations of the coronation, the Fire, the Plague and an execution. You may also take notes on key sections which interest you.
When you finish, write a diary entry from his wife's point of view. How might she see things differently?
Tomorrow and Friday: Review of Unit 2. Study the core list. Make notes on quizlet. Know all the forms, the historical information, the titles and authors of the works for your test on Tuesday.
Test Outline: / 78
Section 1: 30 multiple choice questions (a variety of questions that test your comprehension, your knowledge of author and title and genre, and literary terms). 30 marks
Section 2: paragraph on 1 work studied during the unit. I will give you three or four topics. Choose one and explain how the work you choose proves that thesis. Literary paragraph style. 24 marks
Section 3: Read a short poem and answer the question in literary paragraph format. (It will be by one of the writers studied during the unit so you will be able to recognize and apply your knowledge of the form to the question. That knowledge will help you explicate the poem). 24 marks
The key forms in this unit are
The Petrarchan Sonnet
The Elizabethan Sonnet
The pastoral
The antipastoral
The Cavalier / carpe diem themed poems
The metaphysical style
The epic poem
Be sure that you know the attributes of each era and how the political, cultural and religious views may have shaped the literature written at that time.
The Renaissance era
The Reformation / Restoration eras
The Puritan Age
Literary Terms from this Unit (Plus, you are expected to know the terms from Unit 1)
sonnet: rhyme scheme, iamb, iambic pentametre, Italian and Elizabethan structures, the volta, the quatrain, the sestet, the octave, the love conventions of a sonnet and traditional imagery (the hunter, the chase, the unattainable woman, beautiful woman etc)
pastoral: idealization of country life, shepherds, endless time, ideal life, iambic tetrametre,
antipastoral: Raleigh's reply is more pragmatic yet wistful, wanting the pastoral values but realizing they are unattainable
metaphysical: use of scientific imagery, humanism, metaphysical conceits,
(Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning)
Cavalier: country squires who believed in the monarchy (less prepared army than the Roundheads of Cromwell) carpe diem, witty, colloquial, less lofty themes, lustful,
epic poem, Paradise Lost, elevated diction, epic similes, periodic sentences, battle between good and evil, larger than life, invokes a Muse at the beginning of the poem to help the writer be truthful to the tale, asserting eternal providence, show the ways of God to man,
metonymy
synecdoche
apostrophe
personification
paradox
imagery
theme
aphorism, aphoristic
blank verse
caesura
colloquial language
couplet
heroic couplet
stanza
quatrain
sestet
volta
octave
didactic
extended metaphor
in medias res
invocation
juxtaposition
character foil
lyric poetry (sonnet, ode, elegy)
ballad
motif
parallelism
oxymoron
pun
syntax
understatement
wit
