Literature Havo 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

English - Period 3

What?

• Different types of poetry from different eras 

• Booklet: answer questions about the eras, the type of poetry and your own opinion. 

• Oral: questions about figurative language in the book (that you need to read) the poetry  (during the oral) and booklet

Why?

It will help your reading skills, expand your vocabulary and give you an opportunity to practice speaking. 

HAVO 5-  The booklet and oral together are 35% of your English mark (5% booklet and 30% Test)

What makes a poem a poem?

Answer the questions on page 13 of your stencil

Check!

Let's see if you got all the answers!

What makes a poem a poem?

1.    Which of the following is not a characteristic traditionally associated with poetry?   D. Paragraphs

2.    What does Reinhard Dohl’s “Apfel” have in common with e.e. cummings’ “l(a)”?

B. The visual arrangement of words is important to the meaning of each poem

3.    What does RAP stand for?     A. Rhythm and Poetry

4.    In what way was Joanna Smith’s tweet like a poem?  A. Smith used condensed language to create a powerful image

5.    What is a haiku?   A. type of poem that consists of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

6.    The word poetry comes from the Greek “poiesis.” What does this word mean? C. To make

7.    Which of the following was not an example from the lesson that challenged a traditional concept of poetry?   B. Debates

Check!

Let's see if you got all the answers!

The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern

1.    We are creatures of repetition within our own bodies. Which bodily functions involve rhythm and repetition?
      E. B) and C) only

2.    Which of the following is an example of repetition in language?

      D. Both A) and B)

3.    A repeated pattern of stressed syllables is known as:
      D. Alliteration

4.    The repetition of vowel sounds is called:
      A. Assonance

5.    Rhyme at the end of lines of poetry or in a song:
      C. Creates expectations for the listener of a pleasurable pattern

Need some more examples of the devices on page 15? Use these links!

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Hyperbole

"I died a hundred times

Metaphor and Assonance

I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter
Dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar

Similie and Assonance

Sweet like a honey bun

Spit like a tommy -gun

Metaphor and Onomatopoeia

I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut through the floor,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...boom!

Mort Aux Chats

There will be no more cats.
Cats spread infection,
Cats pollute the air,
Cats consume seven times
their own weight in food a week,
Cats were worshipped in
decadent societies (Egypt
and Ancient Rome); the Greeks
had no use for cats. Cats
sit down to pee (our scientists
have proved it). The copulation
of cats is harrowing; they
are unbearably fond of the moon.

Perhaps they are all right in
their own country but their
traditions are alien to ours.
Cats smell, they can't help it,
you notice it going upstairs.
Cats watch too much television,
they can sleep through storms,
they stabbed us in the back
last time. There have never been
any great artists who were cats.
They don't deserve a capital C
except at the beginning of a sentence.

I blame my headaches and my
plants dying on cats.
Our district is full of them,
property values are falling.
When I dream of God I see
a Massacre of Cats. Why
should they insist on their own
language and religion, who
needs to purr to make his point?
Death to all cats! The Rule
of Dogs shall last a thousand years!
-- Peter Porter

1.    There is an expression in line one,’there will be no more cats’ that is repeated in a different way later in the poem. Compare the two and explain in Dutch what makes them different.

> There will be no more cats

…

Death to all cats

– The poem goes from a simple factual statement to a shocking rallying cry

2.    Which groups of people are compared to cats in this poem? Why do you think so? Use examples from the text in your answer.

> The Jewish people – there are many examples of how the Nazi’s viewed Jews and spread these ideas to turn people against Jews, making it easier for them to make laws against them, ending in the Final Solution, for example:

•    Jews are dirty (spread infection)
•    Jews are greedy (consume seven times their own weight in food)
•    Jews smell
•    Jews are all right in their own country, just not in ours!
•    Jews sleep through storms (they didn’t get involved in fighting in WWI and Hitler and the Nazis believed they betrayed the
      German people by taking over the German government and suing for peace with the enemy (England, France, America,
      Russia etc.)
•    Jews make house prices fall (property values falling) – Nazi’s believed when a Jew moved into your neighbourhood, people
       did not want to live there.  
•    Jews wanted their own language and religion (Yiddish and the Jewish faith)

3.    Who are the dogs? (Please keep in mind we’re not talking about real animals here.) Explain!

> The Nazis (not the Germans- not all Germans were Nazi’s and not all Nazis were/are German) Hitler believed in a 1000 year empire (Reich), as stated in the last line of the poem.  They were also extremely anti-Semitic.

4.    Where is the climax in this poem? Explain your answer.

> Death to all cats!

– The poem starts with ‘there will be no more cats’ and then lists all the reasons why ‘cats’ should be killed, to then almost shout ‘death to all cats’.  It is like a piece of Nazi propaganda that starts off very factually and builds up to The Final Solution / The Holocaust

5.    What is the real theme here?

> Racism – Anti Semitism.  The poet wrote this to make it seem ridiculous that the Nazi’s (and racists in general) blame another race, Jews in this case, for everything bad that happens (even their plants dying!).

Toets stof  Toetsweek 4

- All quiet on the Western front - wie is wie en het verhaallijn

- vragen over What makes a poem a poem?

- vragen over The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern

- vragen over Poetic devices en een Engels voorbeeld kunnen geven

- vragen over Mort Aux Chats

Zie Magister.me > All quiet & Poetry voor antwoorden en andere hulpmiddelen