"A Poem Worth Loving" with literary elements.

1) Dramatic Situation: The speaker is in first person and can be inferred as a woman or man.
2) Structure: The first part talks about the speaker trying to figure out which road to take. The next part talks about one of the roads. The next part states the similarities of both roads. The last few parts speak about the speakers decision.
3) Theme: It may be hard to choose the path you want to take. Can be for your future or for one day.
4) Grammar and meaning: In modern time writing
5) Images and figure of speech: Describes how one path looks and the difference between two roads. "Because it was grassy and wanted wear." shows the imagery of one of the roads.
6) Important words: Travel, two roads, leads, difference. Important because they give the effect of how different the roads are and the difficulties in choosing which to take.
7) Tone: Thoughtful in which may be better to take.
8) Literary devices/techniques: Imagery, diction

Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities - Dr Tony Williams - Gresham College Lecture Notes.

• Third city (Manchester)
• Came up with story while acting
• Dicken's says that he has done and suffered everything written in his pages- personal identity
• 1857- assisted in writing "The Frozen Deep"
• Played Richard Water (hero)
• Inspired by 1845 Franklin expedition to Arctic in finding NW passage
• Sacrifice shown with Lucy, Charles and Sydney in "Tale of Two Cities"
• Believed public performance should not be done by friends and family, but professional players be engaged
• Met Ellen Turnen and fell in love
• She played character in "The Frozen Deep" named Lucy
• Makes her Lucie in "Tale of Two Cities"
• Got ideas from "The Frozen Deep" ?
• 1858- began public reading for profit
• Became greatest reader of greatest writer
• 1858- separated from Catherine
• Main cities are London and Paris
• 10 year old boy in London-privation and suffering gave extensive and peculiar knowledge of city
• Refers to London as a newspaper
• London was a maze for him
• 1844- first visit to Paris
• Good view towards Paris
• Reminds readers of Prevision landscape
• 1844-1868: visited Paris 15 times
• Drawn to visit the morgue
• Uses historical setting for parallels
• "Tale of Two Cities" brings out real revolutions and violence
• Book came out in weekly parts
• Good friends with a guy named Carlise who was a writer
• Storming of Bastille- demonstrates how he can build up momentum and mobility
• Goes in description of violence and refers to the novel

Notes on Presentation Plan.

My group discussed on our presentation for "Great Expectations" and the different literary techniques that would be pointed out which are:

Diction
Imagery
Syntax
Symbolism
Theme
Mood
Tone
Allusion
Indirect
Direct

We gave each person a role and what they would discuss. We reviewed the chapters, asked questions and gave different opinions.

10 Study Questions.

1) What is Pip's real name?
    - Philip


2) What did the old man look like?
    -"all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with am old rag tried round his head."


3) What did the old man tell Pip to get?
    - A file and wittles


4) Why did Pip feel bad for taking the food?
    -Because it was his sisters food and he didn't like stealing

5) What became of the prisoner Pip helped?    -The escaped prisoner is captured and then sent off to a prisoner ship. Before he leaves, he claims to be the one to have stolen the food from Pip's house so that Pip is not blamed for it.


6)  How does Estelle behave towards Pip?
    -Pip says "she is very insulting." She behaves in a very rude matter. According to Pip, she treated him as if he were a dog. By the time Pip leaves, he is crying.


7) Pip happy that he is given the opportunity to kiss the beautiful Estelle?
    -Pip says, "But, I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that is worth nothing." He is still ashamed that Estelle thinks he is common.

First 10-15 pgs. of Dickens.

In the first ten to fifteen pages of Dickens novel "Great Expectations" we learn about a young boy named Pip. In the begging he tells how he came to be called Pip because he couldn't really pronounce his real name. By the way he is described and how he has very little knowledge of certain things show how he's from a lower class. He's in a church yard and meets and old man who tells him to get him good and a file or else he would feed him to the boy. Pip runs home to his sister where he gets in trouble and he takes some food. He also sneaks into his brother in laws tools and steals a file. At the end he runs back to the church yard. From this we learn that the young boy is poverty stricken with his family. This relates to Dickens by how Dickens grew up himself in the lower class.

Introduction to Big Question.