Scavenger Hunt Answers

Allusion	Is a reference in literature to a familiar person, place, thing, or event
Tone	Is the overall feeling, or effect, created by a writers use of words. This feeling may be serious, mock-serious, humorous, satiric, and so on.;
Hyperbole	Is an exaggeration, or overstatement
Metaphor	Is a comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used.
Metonymy	Is the substituting of one word for another that is closely related to it.

Ballad	Is a poem in verse form that tells a story
Blank verse	Is an unrhymed form of poetry that normally consists of ten syllables in which every other syllable is stressed

Describe this object using two of these devices and bring it to me for your next destination.

My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns

MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O,

And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O;

He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne’er a farthing, O;

For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O.

Then out into the world my course I did determine, O;

Tho’ to be rich was not my wish, yet to be great was charming, O;

My talents they were not the worst, nor yet my education, O:

Resolv’d was I at least to try to mend my situation, O.

In many a way, and vain essay, I courted Fortune’s favour, O;

Some cause unseen still stept between, to frustrate each endeavour, O;

Sometimes by foes I was o’erpower’d, sometimes by friends forsaken, O;

And when my hope was at the top, I still was worst mistaken, O.

Then sore harass’d and tir’d at last, with Fortune’s vain delusion, O,

I dropt my schemes, like idle dreams, and came to this conclusion, O;

The past was bad, and the future hid, its good or ill untried, O;

But the present hour was in my pow’r, and so I would enjoy it, O.

No help, nor hope, nor view had I, nor person to befriend me, O;

So I must toil, and sweat, and moil, and labour to sustain me, O;

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, O;

For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for Fortune fairly, O.

Thus all obscure, unknown, and poor, thro’ life I’m doom’d to wander, O,

Till down my weary bones I lay in everlasting slumber, O:

No view nor care, but shun whate’er might breed me pain or sorrow, O;

I live to-day as well’s I may, regardless of to-morrow, O.

But cheerful still, I am as well as a monarch in his palace, O,

Tho’ Fortune’s frown still hunts me down, with all her wonted malice, O:

I make indeed my daily bread, but ne’er can make it farther, O:

But as daily bread is all I need, I do not much regard her, O.

When sometimes by my labour, I earn a little money, O,

Some unforeseen misfortune comes gen’rally upon me, O;

Mischance, mistake, or by neglect, or my goodnatur’d folly, O:

But come what will, I’ve sworn it still, I’ll ne’er be melancholy, O.

All you who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour, O,

The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther, O:

Had you the wealth Potosi boasts, or nations to adore you, O,

A cheerful honest-hearted clown I will prefer before you, O.

Personification	Is a literary device in which the author speaks of or describes an animal, object, or idea as if it were a person.
Simile	Is a comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison is used.
Alliteration	Is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words.
Assonance	Is the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants.

Describe something that could happen in this location using two of the above devices and bring it to me for your next destination.

Twisters which also illustrate alliteration:

•    Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and artichokes.

•    Bertha Bartholomew blew big, blue bubbles.

•    Clever Clifford Cutter clumisily closed the closet  clasps.

•    Dwayne Dwiddle drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula.

•    Elmer Elwood eluded elven elderly elephants.

•    Floyd Flingle flipped flat flapjacks.

From John Milton's Paradise Lost:

 ...the broad circumference

 Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb

 Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views

 At ev'ning from the top of Fesole...

 In this case, the assonance involves the sound u and o.

Assonance and alliteration often work together.

 In "Moby Dick," Melville uses alliteration to build character and to help the reader experience the colorful scene on board a whaling ship. The character, Stubb, for instance, is described as having "rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general," and as saying "the most terrific things to his crew." His use of assonance is part of how Melville illustrates these things. "The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions," Stubb says, for instance. "Start her -- start her, my silver spoons! Start her, marling spikes!" (In this last quote, we have not only alliteration in the repetition of the s sounds, but also an example of assonance in the words "start" and "marling.")

Caesura	Is a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry
Canto	Is the main division of a long poem

Stanza	Is a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains Couplet two line stanza Triplet three line stanza Quatrain four line stanza Quintet five line stanza Sestet six line stanza Septet seven line stanza Octave eight line stanza
Heroic Couplet	Consists of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought

Write a short, flattering poem, including two different kinds of stanzas and a heroic couplet about someone you might find in this location.  Then bring it to me for your next location.

)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is

more silent than more than much more is or

total sun oceaning than any this

tear jumping from each most least eye of star

and without was if minus and shall be

immeasurable happenless unnow

shuts more than open could that every tree

or than all his life more death begins to grow

end's ending then these dolls of joy and grief

these recent memories of future dream

these perhaps who have lost their shadows if

which did not do the losing spectres mine

until out of merely not nothing comes

only one snowflake(and we speak our names

 -by ee cummings

Consonance	Is the repetition of consonant sounds
Rhyme	Is the similarity of likeness of sound existing between two words
End rhyme	Is the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two r more lines of poetry
Internal rhyme	Occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry
Enjambment	Is the running over of a sentence or thought from one line to another

Use two of these devices to describe something that might happen in this location and then bring it to me for your next location.

"Bantams in Pine Woods" by Wallace Stevens

Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan

Of tan with henna hackles, halt!

Damned universal cock, as if the sun

Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.

Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.

Your world is you. I am my world.

You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!

Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,

Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,

And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.

William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Free verse	Is poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Rhythm	Is the ordered or free occurrence of sound in poetry
Meter	Is the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Foot	Is the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and un stressed syllables in a poetic line Iambic an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable Anapestic two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable Trochaic a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable Dactylic a stressed followed by two unstressed syllables Spondaic two stressed syllables Pyrrhic two unstressed syllable

Verse

Is a metric line of poetry. It is named according to the kind and number of feet composing it Monometer one foot Diemter two feet Trimeter three feet Tetrameter four feet Pentameter five feet Hexameter six feet Heptameter seven feet Octometer eight feet

Choose a type of metric feet and (ex: iambic tetrameter) and use it to describe your own feet.  Bring it to me for your next location.

Most poetry has rhythm, and rhythm is achieved  by emphasizing or deemphasizing certain syllables in the words used in the  lines of the love poem.

The syllables, themselves, are then grouped into  two or three syllable units called "feet".

Examples of different types of  "feet": (note: all  underlined syllables are  emphasized)

[My  love] [for  you] [will  al]  [ways  be,]

The above feet in [ ]  brackets are called "iambs" because they are each composed of two syllables with the second syllable of each foot  emphasized.

[Slow ly]  [soft ly]  [and so]  [gent  ly]

The above feet in brackets are called "trochees"  because they are each composed of two syllables with the first  syllable of each foot  emphasized.

[Sweet  heart]  [thou  art] [al  ways]  [at  heart]

The above feet in brackets are called "spondees"  because they are each composed of two syllables with both syllables  of each foot  emphasized.

[Self res  pect] [is  a-chieved]  [when one leaves]  [lust and  greed]

The above feet in brackets are called "dactyls"  because they are each composed of three syllables with the  first syllable of each foot  emphasized.

[Dis res pect]  [can not be] [for a  love] [to be  free]

The above feet in brackets are called "anapests'  because they are each composed of three syllables with the  third syllable of each foot  emphasized.

Rhythm, as you can see from the above, depends  on emphasized and deemphasized syllables  which make up "feet." Taking this a step further, a "line" or "verse" of  a poem is made up of one or more "feet."

Examples of Lines  (Verses):

Iambic Tetrameter  (4-meter)

[My  love] [for  you] [will  al] [ways  be,]

This verse has four iambic feet.

Iambic Trimeter  (3-meter)

[I  kiss] [you  in] [my  dreams]

This verse has three iambic feet.

Iambic Pentameter  (5-meter)

[Thus  soon] [I'll  need] [the  warmth] [of  your] [em  brace]

Lyric	Is a short verse that is intended to express the emotions of the author
Onomatopoeia	Is the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning
Refrain	Is the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals
Repetition	Is the repeating of a word or phrase within a poem or prose piece to create a sense of rhythm

synecdoche

Using a part of something to represent a whole.

Use  as many of these as you can to write a poem about Harbor High.  Bring it to me for your next location.

The Bells (excerpt)

 by Edgar Allan Poe

I         Hear the sledges with the bells--

             Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

       How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle

           In the icy air of night!

       While the stars that oversprinkle

       All the heavens, seem to twinkle

           With a crystalline delight;

         Keeping time, time, time,

         In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

               Bells, bells, bells--

  From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II.       Hear the mellow wedding bells

             Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

       Through the balmy air of night

       How they ring out their delight!

           From the molten-golden notes,

               And all in tune,

           What a liquid ditty floats

    To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats

               On the moon!

         Oh, from out the sounding cells,

What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!

               How it swells!

               How it dwells

           On the Future! how it tells

           Of the rapture that impels

         To the swinging and the ringing

           Of the bells, bells, bells,

    Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

               Bells, bells, bells--

  To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

sonnet

A 14- line poem using iambic pentameter Italian/ petrarchan sonnet: has two parts.  An octave and sestet.  Usually rhyming abbaabba, cdecde.  Often a question raised in the octave is answered in the sestet. Shakespearian/ Elizabethan sonnet: consists of 3 quatrains and a final heroic couplet.  Rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg.  Usually the question or theme is set forth in the quatrains while the answer is in the couplet.

Create a mnemonic that will help you to remember the features of a sonnet.  Bring it to me for your next location.

"Sonnets are full of love..."

-Christina Rossetti

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome

Has many sonnets: so here now shall be

One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,

To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee

I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;

Whose service is my special dignity,

And she my loadstar while I go and come

And so because you love me, and because

I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath

Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:

In you not fourscore years can dim the flame

Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws

Of time and change and mortal life and death.