Transcript Content Objective

12/22/14
Do Now:
- Read “The Road Not Taken” and
answer the questions at the bottom.
Homework:
- Annotate Steve Jobs’ Commencement
Speech looking for rhetorical devices.
Content Objective (What):Students will identify the rhetorical devices (Allusion, Anaphora,
Diction, Syntax, Tone) in Steve Jobs’ commencement speech.
Language Objective (How): Students will listen to the speech before reading and annotating
the speech for rhetorical devices (Allusion, Anaphora, Diction, Syntax, Tone).
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Robert Frost – The
Road Not Taken
1) What is the central idea of this poem?
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
2) What is the tone of the poem?
3) Push It!!! Can you identify, and label, the
rhyme scheme of the poem?
Rhetorical Devices:
Allusion - A reference to an event, literary work
or person.
Anaphora - Repeats a word or phrase in
successive phrases.
Diction - Word choice an author uses to
persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect.
Syntax - The way words are put together to form
phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Tone - The writer's attitude toward their topic.
Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech
Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to
the graduates of Stanford University in 2005.