Elements of Language Lesson

Elements of Language Lesson
What follows is a model of a PowerPoint presentation
on element of language.
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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“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death, be not proud…”
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Yes
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Yes
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No
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
“I may assert Eternal Providence…”
“Paradise Lost”
Milton
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“Little Lamb, who made thee?” “The Lamb” Blake
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?
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“Milton! Thou should be living at this hour…”
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?
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?
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?
“London, 1802” Wordsworth
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“It is an ancient Mariner…”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Coleridge
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“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st
the skies!” “from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney
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“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death, be not proud…”

Yes

Yes

No
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
“I may assert Eternal Providence…”
“Paradise Lost”
Milton

“Little Lamb, who made thee?” “The Lamb” Blake

Yes

“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 climb’st
the skies!” “from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney



“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death, be not proud…”

Yes

Yes

No
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
“I may assert Eternal Providence…”
“Paradise Lost”
Milton

“Little Lamb, who made thee?” “The Lamb” Blake

Yes

“Milton! Thou should be living at this hour…”

Yes

?

?
“London, 1802” Wordsworth

“It is an ancient Mariner…”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Coleridge

“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st
the skies!” “from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney



“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death, be not proud…”

Yes

Yes

No
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
“I may assert Eternal Providence…”
“Paradise Lost”
Milton

“Little Lamb, who made thee?” “The Lamb” Blake

Yes

“Milton! Thou should be living at this hour…”

Yes

No

?
“London, 1802” Wordsworth

“It is an ancient Mariner…”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Coleridge

“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st
the skies!” “from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney



“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death, be not proud…”

Yes

Yes

No
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
“I may assert Eternal Providence…”
“Paradise Lost”
Milton

“Little Lamb, who made thee?” “The Lamb” Blake

Yes

“Milton! Thou should be living at this hour…”

Yes

No

Yes
“London, 1802” Wordsworth

“It is an ancient Mariner…”
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Coleridge

“With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb’st
the skies!” “from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney
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.
In the lines below the use of apostrophe has
been highlighted.
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“ O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the
woods…””Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth
“Death,
be not proud…”
“Little
“Holy Sonnet 10” Donne
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 climb’st the skies!”
“from Astrophel and Stella Sonnet 31” Sir Philip Sidney
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.
From “Astrophel and Stella”
Sonnet 31
With how sad steps, Oh, Moon, thou climb’st the
skies!
archer, Cupid
descries, reveals
they call ungratefulness
a virtue
Do … ungratefulness,
How
silentlyDo and
how wan
athere?
face!
What, may it be that even in heavenly place
The busy archer
What, may it be that even in heavenly place
How silently and how wan a face!
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1
1
What, may it be that even in heavenly place
The busy archer1 his sharp arrow tries?
Sure, if that long-with-love acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case,
I read it in thy looks – thy languished grace
To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.2
Then, even of fellowship, Oh Moon, tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?3
1 archer, Cupid
2 descries, reveals
3 Do … ungratefulness, Do they
call ungratefulness a virtue there?
This slide should
include a paragraph explaining the effect
of the use of apostrophe in the
preceding poem.

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