Monday/ Tuesday, Wednesday, November 2, 3 and 4 Poetry break: The Highwayman
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HAVE YOU TURNED IN YOUR PLOT SUMMARY ASSIGNMENT FROM THE CASK OF AMONTILADO FROM LAST THURSDAY/ FIRDAY?
Open a google doc and complete the following plot information as relates to the plot diagram. Share with me, using name or number or 2006630 This is due not later than Sunday, November 1
Directions: Below you will find a visual of a plot diagram, followed by a list of the terms.
For each of the five find a textual example from the story that matches the action associated with the plot term. The visual should guide you.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Plot Diagram
1. Exposition- the introduction to a story, including the primary characters' names, setting, mood, and time. The conflict is established.
2. Rising Action-The part of the plot that is the point of greatest tension in a work ofand the turning point in the action or plot; it is the most intense moment – either mentally or in action.
3. Climax-The climax of a plot is the story's central turning point—the moment of peak tension or conflict—which all the preceding plot developments have been leading up to
4. Falling Action-Falling action occurs right after the climax, when the main problem of the story resolves
5. Resolution/ denouement -he unfolding or solution of a complicated issue in a story. Technically, resolution is also known as a “denouement.” Most of the instances of resolution are presented in the final parts or chapters of a story.
Learning Targets: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
1. 1. galleon (noun_ a large sailing ship of the 1400's-1600's
2. 2. moor (noun) area of open rolling wild land, usually a grassy wetland
3. 3. rapier (noun) long lightweight sword
4. 4. hilt (noun) handle of a sword or rapier
5. 5. to plait (verb) to braid
6. 6. ostler or hostler (noun) caretaker of the horses
7. 7. to harry (verb) to trouble, bother, or worr
8. 8. tawny (adjective) brownish gold color
9. 9. red coat troop soldiers of King George during the late 18th century
- John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem.
- The cast on his broken leg was a plaster shackle.
- Laughter is the music of the soul.
- America is a melting pot.
- Her lovely voice was music to his ears.
- The world is a stage.
- My kid's room is a disaster area.
- Life is a rollercoaster.
The Highwayman
1906
BY ALFRED NOYES
PART ONE
1. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding— 5
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
2. He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
They fitted with never a wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh.
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, 10
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.
3. Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.
He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred.
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there 15
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
4. And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked. 20
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay,
But he loved the landlord’s daughter,
The landlord’s red-lipped daughter.
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say—
5. “One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night, 25
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.” 30
6. He rose upright in the stirrups. He scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair in the casement. His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(O, sweet black waves in the moonlight!) 35
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the west.
PART TWO
7. He did not come in the dawning. He did not come at noon;
And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon,
When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor,
A red-coat troop came marching— 40
Marching—marching—
King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
8. They said no word to the landlord. They drank his ale instead.
But they gagged his daughter, and bound her, to the foot of her narrow bed.
Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their side! 45
There was death at every window;
And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that he would ride.
9. They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest.
They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast! 50
“Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her. She heard the doomed man say—
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!
10. She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! 55
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers! 60
11. The tip of one finger touched it. She strove no more for the rest.
Up, she stood up to attention, with the muzzle beneath her breast.
She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
Blank and bare in the moonlight; 65
And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love’s refrain.
12. Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horsehoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding— 70
Riding—riding—
The red coats looked to their priming! She stood up, straight and still.
13. Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer. Her face was like a light.
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath, 75
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.
14. He turned. He spurred to the west; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o’er the musket, drenched with her own blood! 80
Not till the dawn he heard it, and his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
The landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.
15.Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky, 85
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.
Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat;
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with a bunch of lace at his throat. 90
16. And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding— 95
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
17. Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter, 100
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
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ASSIGNMENT: Please copy the following questions onto a google doc and respond by either highlighting or underlining the correct response. Please share, as usual, from the drop down menu with my name or number (2006630). This due by noon Wednesday.
Accompanying questions for “The Highwayman”
The Highwayman
1) In line two of the poem “The Highwayman” the author compares the moon to a ship
being tossed upon cloudy seas. This is an example of what literature technique.
a) alliteration b) personification c) metaphor d) simile
2) Line four of the poem is a strong example of which poetic devise.
a) rhyme b) stanza c) onomatopoeia d) rhythm
3) In stanza two of the poem, the author describes the highwayman as being
_______________________.
a) a coward b) well dressed c) silly looking d) sloppy
4) In line eleven of the poem, the author describes how the highwayman entered the inn
yard. When he says the highwayman clattered and clashed over the cobbles, this is an
example of which poetic device.
a) alliteration b) simile c) onomatopoeia d) metaphor
5) In lines 14 & 15, what was Bess doing?
a) braiding her hair b) singing a song c) reading a book d) painting a portrait
6) In stanza four of the poem, Tim, the ostler, was listening to the highwayman and Bess.
Why was he interested in their conversation?
a) he was afraid of the highwayman b) he was looking for someone to rob
c) he wanted to take care of the highwayman’s horse d) he was in love with Bess
7) In stanza six of the poem, what did the highwayman do before he left Bess?
a) he sang a song to Bess b) he fixed his stirrups c) he kissed Bess’s hair
d) he waved goodbye to Bess
8) In lines 41 – 50, what did the redcoats do to Bess?
a) they tied her up against her bed b) the asked her questions c) they shot her
d) they let her go free
9) When did the highwayman hear about Bess shooting herself?
a) the next morning b) that night c) immediately after it happened
d) a week later
10) The last two stanzas of the poem are examples of what?
a) repetition b) refrain c) a legend d) alliteration
BONUS WORK Each correct one is worth 10 points!
Look at some of these old-fashioned job titles and see if you can match them to their job description.
____Wheelwright A. a seller of clothing
____Town Crier B. a male servant
_____Farrier C. a tin pot and pan seller, repairer and knife sharpener
_____Footman D. a wig maker
_____Nob E. a maker of barrels
_____Haberdasher F. a blacksmith, horse doctor, or officer in charge of
horses
______Hillier G. a public announcer
______Tinker H.a roof tiler, a thatcher
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