TONE: This refers to the narrator's attitude. It changes often with the mood of the piece. It is based upon what is happening the poem or piece of literature, and it is created by techniques such as syntax and diction used by the author.
VOICE: This refers to the narrator's personality. It seldom changes, but if it does that is due to a dynamic change in what is occuring with the narrator. This is created mostly by diction, especially by descriptions of characteristics such as "smart," "beautiful" or "funny."
STYLE: Style refers to the author's personality. The style does not change very often, even between different pieces written by the same author, but it can change when the author gets older or something happens in their life.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/elements.asp?e=5 This website provides more useful information about style and tone.
When evaluating a poem, ask these three questions:
1. What is the main idea of the poem?
2. Has this been accomplished well?
3. Is this important?
A poem does not acheive excellence if:
1. It is overly sentimental.
2. It is overly rhetorical.
3. It is overly didactic (attempts to "lecture" the reader).
A poem has acheived excellence if:
1. It has an important message.
2. It is pleasing and engaging.
3. It enlightens the reader.
Musical Devices: These are techniques that make a poem more pleasing to the listener.
Alliteration: Repeats the sound of the first letter.
Assonance: Repeats vowel sound.
Consonance: Repeats final sound.
Rhyme: Can be masculine (one syllable) or feminine (two+ syllables), and internal (within the line) or end (at the end of a line).
Rhyme and Meter
Rhythm: The natural flow of language, used in a poem to change the tone.
Stress: Used on different syllables to create different effects. 'I love you' puts the emphasis upon the speaker, while 'I love you' puts the emphasis upon the person being spoken to.
Foot: One accented syllable plus a couple of non-accented.
AP ESSAY:
Use a high level of vocabulary, but it is more important to be succinct and to the point. The AP readers are not interested in reading the same thing over and over again.
Be sure to use vocabulary words correctly. It pretty much ruins a paper to use an impressive word in the wrong way.
The opening paragraph should be made up of claims, but no information about technique at all. Use these claims as topic sentences for the rest of the paragraphs, and then use the techniques to prove the claims.
A concluding paragraph is not nearly as important as the rest of the paper - if a paper is well rounded, the score will not go down based upon having no conclusion.
Pass! :)
ReplyDeleteI like how you summarize everything in your own voice. Please see Class Notes Oct 25-29 for comments on outside connections.
Pass!
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I like how you use color to make important things to pop out or just to make the notes look nice. ;) You did a nice job in summarizing all of the key concepts in your own words. I would suggest perhaps making a specific section just for outside connection...just to help with the organization and make it easier to find the connections.
Nice, concise (yet detailed - is that self-contradictory?) rendition of those lengthy Perrine chapters that we had to read for this period! Don't forget about your connections, which are needed for a passing entry, and once you fix them your entry should be even more fantastic than it already is. :)
ReplyDeleteNice work this period! Keep it up! :)