Elements of Language Lesson

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Elements of Language Lesson

• What follows is a model of a PowerPoint
  presentation on element of language.

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Concept Attainment Directions

• The following slide contains a series of lines
  quoted from well known poems.
• Some of the lines contain similar elements of
  language. Others do not.
• The first three lines have been marked to
  indicate if they contain the same language
  element.
• Determine which of the remaining lines also
  contain that element..
• Check your accuracy by advance to the next
  slides.

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• Yes
• Yes
• No
• ?
• ?
• ?
• ?

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth
• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne
• I may assert Eternal Providence Paradise
  Lost Milton
• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake
• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth
• It is an ancient Mariner The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner Coleridge
• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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• Yes
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• ?
• ?
• ?

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth
• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne
• I may assert Eternal Providence Paradise
  Lost Milton
• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake
• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth
• It is an ancient Mariner The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner Coleridge
• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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• Yes
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• Yes
• ?
• ?

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth
• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne
• I may assert Eternal Providence Paradise
  Lost Milton
• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake
• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth
• It is an ancient Mariner The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner Coleridge
• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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• Yes
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• Yes
• No
• ?

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth
• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne
• I may assert Eternal Providence Paradise
  Lost Milton
• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake
• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth
• It is an ancient Mariner The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner Coleridge
• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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• Yes
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• Yes
• No
• Yes

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth
• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne
• I may assert Eternal Providence Paradise
  Lost Milton
• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake
• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth
• It is an ancient Mariner The Rime of the
  Ancient Mariner Coleridge
• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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What is the concept? Which element of language
did all the yes lines of poetry contain?
They all make use of a figure of speech called
apostrophe.
An apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the
writer addresses an absent person, object,
animal, or abstract concept.
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In the lines below the use of apostrophe has been
highlighted.

• O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
  woodsTintern Abbey Wordsworth

• Death, be not proud Holy Sonnet 10 Donne

• Little Lamb, who made thee? The Lamb Blake

• Milton! Thou should be living at this hour
  London, 1802 Wordsworth

• With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climbst the
  skies! from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31
  Sir Philip Sidney

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The poem below makes extensive use of apostrophe.
Although the highlighted words indicate the
direct addresses, there are indirect addresses to
the moon as well.

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1 archer, Cupid 2 descries, reveals 3 Do
ungratefulness, Do they call ungratefulness a
virtue there?
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This slide should include a paragraph explaining
the effect of the use of apostrophe in the
preceding poem.