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 Lesson

16 North American Literature - II

Grade 12, First Semester, Q2 – Week 7

What I Need to Know

Let’s continue our quest in understanding the literature of North America

by exploring one of its poems.

In this Lesson, you are going to:

a. Identify representative texts and authors from Asia, North America,

Europe, Latin America, and Africa; (EN12Lit-IIa-22)
b. Compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and
their elements, structures, and traditions from across the globe
(EN12Lit-IId-25)
c. Do self- and/or peer-assessment of the creative adaptation of a
literary text, based on rationalized criteria, prior to presentation.
(EN12Lit-IIij-31.3)

What I Know

Recall your lesson about poetry. Then, match the statements in column
A with the words in column B. Write only the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number

Column A Column B

_____1. The bottle fizzed then popped. A. lyric

This is an example of _____.
_____2. When the word at the end of a line rhymes B. onomatopoeia
with another word at the end of another line,
it is called ___ C. figurative language
_____3. When a word inside a line rhymes with another
word inside the same line, it is called ___ D. simile
_____4. The author of a poem is called ____.
_____5. The beat created by the sounds and words E. end rhyme
in the poem is called___
_____6. A group of lines placed together to create a poem F. stanza
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_____7. A poem with a songlike feel; it focuses on
adventure or romance and tells story G. poet
_____8. A phrase or line repeated throughout the poem
_____9. Metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, and H. internal rhyme
personification are all examples of ___
_____10. The mouse beneath the stone is still as I. repetition
death is an example of ___.
J. rhythm

K. metaphor

What’s In
In Lesson 4, you were introduced to North American literature where you
were able to make the plot of the story The Hunger Games using the Freytag’s
Pyramid. Let’s continue our journey in exploring the literature of North America by
looking into their poetry. Before we continue let’s go back first and review the movie
The Hunger Games.
1. What is Katniss’ sister’s full name?
a. Prim b. Primly c. Pamela d. Primrose
2. How did Katniss’ father die?
a. In a mine explosion c. He was murdered by the Capitol
b. He became trapped in a collapsed mine. d. In a hunting accident
3. At what skill is Gale better than Katniss?
a. swimming b. bird calls c. setting snares d. using an axe
4. Who gives Katniss the mockingjay pin?
a. Prim b. Cinna c. Gale d. Madge
5. Why does the Capitol hold the Hunger Games?
a. To keep the districts happy
b. Because they are part of a religious festival
c. As a way to control the size of the population
d. To remind the districts that they are powerless against it
6. Under what circumstances did Katniss first meet Peeta?
a. They did a project at school together.
b. They were both in the woods hunting
c. Peeta was injured and Katniss’ mother helped him.
d. Katniss was looking for food and Peeta gave her bread.
7. What does Katniss think when she first sees the residents of the Capitol?
a. They are overweight and tall
b. They are ungroomed and slovenly
c. They are superficial and ridiculous
d. They are sophisticated and beautiful
8. When Katniss is severely dehydrated, how does Haymitch indicate to her that
she’s near water?
a. He sends her a map c. He sends her a cup
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b. He sends her iodine drops d. He doesn’t send her anything
9. What item does Katniss manage to grab at the Cornucopia when the Games
begin?
a. bow b. helmet c. knife d. backpack
10. How do Katniss and Peeta force the Capitol to declare them both winners?
a. They threaten to run away
b. They threaten to commit suicide.
c. They threaten to cause a rebellion against the Capitol.
d. They threaten that the winner will tell about everything.

What’s New
This activity is called “About Me”. Complete each line to make an
autobiographical poem. Write your poem in your LITERATURE ACTIVITY
NOTEBOOK.
Note: Each set of lines can be repeated any number of times.

About Me

I’m good at___________/ I’m not good at ___________

I used to be __________ But now I’m ______________
I am ________________ / I am not ________________
If you _______________ Then I’ll _________________
I like ________________ But I don’t like ___________
I know a lot about ______ I know nothing about ______
I admire ______________ I don’t respect ___________
I believe in ____________ I don’t believe in _________

What Is It

Poetry and poets have been described in various ways: Thomas Hardy, for
instance, says that poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by
nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. T.S. Eliot believes that immature poets
imitate; mature poets steal; Thomas Babington Macaulay, on the other hand, said
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain
unsoundness of mind”; William Wordsworth expressed that poetry is the spontaneous
overflow of powerful words collected in moments of tranquillity.

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 Amidst the many beliefs and opinions about poetry, it is important to have a
common definition of it. Thus, let’s consider the idea that poetry is an imaginative
response to an experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. Speaking of
language in poetry, it uses two kinds of language: literal and figurative. The literal
means that the words were taken exactly as it is and figurative, when the language is
used figuratively to create a special effect.

Elements of poetry that must be remembered are the speaker, theme, diction,
imagery, rhyme and rhythm, meter, verse, stanza, and line breaks.
There are also different kinds of poetry: the lyric poem and the narrative
poetry. The lyric poem is a comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single
speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional state. Lyric poetry retains some of
the elements of song which is said to be its origin. For Greek writers, the lyric was a
song accompanied by the lyre. The narrative poetry gives a verbal representation, in
verse, of a sequence of connected events, it propels characters through a plot. It is
always told by a narrator. Narrative poems might tell of a love story, the story of a
father and a son, or the deeds of a hero or heroine.

In the 21st century world that is fast-moving and where the “faster, the better”
almost always applies. Many reading materials are stripped-down so they can be read
and digested swiftly. But poetry is a different kind of writing that demands a different
kind of reading, a more personal kind of reading. In poetry, sometimes a single
sentence is as rich and complex as an entire paragraph of prose and readers must
pay great attention to sound. For all these reasons, a reader must not apply the kind
of reading that he does for prose to poetry.
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The idea of the afterlife is truly one of the concepts that fascinate writers. As
weavers of dreams and ideas, writers would like to contribute to the picture of what is
going to happen after death, or to put it simply is there really life after death.

The poem below is a perfect poem, and one of Dickinson’s most compressed
and chilling attempts to come to terms with mortality. Read the poem below and
answer the questions that follow to identify how Dickinson see the afterlife.

Death
Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,

And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove

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 At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;

The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed

A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then ‘tis centuries, and yet each

Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.

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What’s More
Answer the questions that follow. Write your answers in your
LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.

1. What do you think the word “drive” symbolize and why do you think it is repeated
in the third and the fourth stanzas?
2. What have you observed in the final stanza? Do you think the language and the
description changed from concrete to abstract?
3. In line 2, stanza 6, the verb feels is in the present tense. Why do you think it is in
the present tense as compared to the other verbs in the poem? What does it show
about the poet’s perception of death?

What I Have Learned

1. How was death described in the poem? Identify the words used by the author to
describe death. ______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

2. What is the role of immortality in the poem? ______________________________

___________________________________________________________________

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3. How is death personified in the poem? __________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

What I Can Do

You have been in quite a journey at this point in your life. You have experienced
a lot to have a perspective that is uniquely yours. You have your own way of coping
with challenges and trials, your own unique way of handling success, your own way of
giving and loving. It will be very beautiful to be able to share your philosophy with
others. So, for this activity, you will be sharing your life’s philosophy to others by writing
your own poem.

Criteria Description Score

10 points 7 points 4 points
Title is creative, sparks Title is related to the Title is present, but
Title of Poem interest and is related to poem and topic does not appear to be
the poem and topic. Is related to the poem and
related to the poem and topic
topic. Is present, but does
not appear to be related to
the poem and topic
The Writing Student devoted a lot of Student devoted Student devoted some
Process/ Effort time and effort to the adequate time and time and effort to the
writing process and effort to the writing writing process but was
worked hard to make the process and worked not very thorough.
poem a good read. The to get the job done. Does enough to get by.
poem has no errors The poem may have There are several errors.
one or two errors.
Style The poem is written with The poem is written The poem is written
a great sense of style. The with a defined style. somewhat with style.
poem has been well Thoughts are clear to Thoughts are clear to a
thought out and makes read and degree.
sense to the reader. understandable.
Neatness The final draft of the The final draft of the The final draft of the
poem is readable, clean, poem is readable, poem is readable and
neat and attractive. It is neat and attractive. It some of the pages are
free of erasures and may have one or two attractive. It looks like
crossed-out words. It erasures, but they are parts of it might have
looks like the author took not distracting. It been done in a hurry.
great pride. looks like the author
took some pride in it.
Vocabulary The poem is filled with The poem includes The poem includes
descriptive vocabulary many descriptive some descriptive words
that appeals to the reader. elements and is and phrases.
appealing.
Score
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 Post assessment
Read carefully each item below. Choose the correct answer. Then, write
the correct answer in your LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.

1. Which poetic device is demonstrated by these words: buzz, clang, zip, pow
A. simile
B. onomatopoeia
C. personification
D. alliteration

2. What is the simile in the passage?

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy
A. on your breath
B. But I hung on like death
C. could make a small boy dizzy
D. such waltzing was not easy

3. What is alliteration?
A. The use of synonyms.
B. Words that sound alike.
C. An exaggeration
D. The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

4. What device is used in

Good as gold
Busy as bee
Loving, living, laughing
A. personification B. hyperbole C. alliteration D. rhyme

5. In what structure is poetry written?

A. lines and stanzas
B. lines and paragraphs
C. sentences and stanzas
D. sentences and paragraphs
6. A word that imitates the natural sound of a thing is called _____.
A. onomatopoeia B. alliteration C. hyperbole D. repetition

7. Buzzing bee is an example of what sound device?

A. alliteration B. repetition C. onomatopoeia D. rhyme
8. The phrase “ she is a walking dictionary” is using
A. hyperbole
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. hyperbole

9. Any poem that tells a story is called __________.

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A. elegy B. acrostic C. sonnet D. narrative

10. It paints a picture with words using literary devices. It often has a musical quality
and expresses personal emotions or thoughts.
A. lyric B. narrative C. sonnet D. elegy

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