What is it? Deductive Procurement of Literary Terms - Old and New

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What is it?Deductive Procurement of Literary
Terms - Old and New

• Find the rule.

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Examples
Non-Examples

• People Person
• Katy kicked the kicker
• Monkey master
• Tired Timmy taught the tired teacher
• Peter always loved the purple plum
• Cocky Ken kicked the can

• Scotch tape dispenser
• Growing the bottom line
• Handy Manny
• Chasing cars
• Monkey bottoms
• Taking on the tsunami

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So what is the rule?

• On your sheet of paper, write down the rule for
  each example.
• Rule The repetition of a sound at the beginning
  of a grouping of words.

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So what is the term?
A


aeration
little
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Alliteration
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So why is it important?

• Helps create mood/tone
• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• Happy, peppy
• Draws the readers attention
• Who could have done it? Perhaps the purple
  penguin or the lost dog.
• Which one do you notice most? Intention would be
  the purple penguin.

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Why is it important in Old English?

• Anglo-Saxon poetry known as alliterative poetry
• Alliteration not rhyme unified Anglo-Saxon poetry

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Number 2
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What is it?Deductive Procurement of Literary
Terms

• Find the Rule.

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Examples Non-Examples

• Sky-candle
• Battle-dew
• Whale-road
• Sea-stallion
• Gas guzzler
• Headhunter

• Sun
• Blood
• Sea
• Ship
• SUV
• Cannibal

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So what is the rule?

• On your sheet of paper, write down the rule for
  each example.
• Rule A special metaphor compound words made of
  two common nouns

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So what is the term?
Ken Jennings Jen
Ken nings
Ken Jennings
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Kennings
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So why is it important?

• Kennings filled three needs
• Depended heavily on alliteration limited
  vocabulary
• Poetry was oral needed ready-made phrases
  easily remembered
• Complex structure satisfied taste for elaboration

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from Beowulf

• Now Grendel came, from his crags of mist
• Across the moor he was curst of God.
• The murderous prowler meant to surprise
• In the high-built hall his human prey.
• He stalked neath the clouds, till steep before
  him
• The house of revelry rose in his path,
• The gold-hall of heroes, the gaily adorned.

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Assessment Illustrated Alliteration and Kenning

• Materials
• Copy paper
• Markers, colored pencils, crayons
• Imagination
• Creativity

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Assessment (cont.)

• Process
• Fold copy paper hamburger style
• Label one side alliteration
• Label the other side kenning
• Create your own example for each
• Illustrate each example must be colorful
• Due End of class