Grammar

The semi-colon and the colon--

These two punctuation marks are giving people a run for their money.  So, because I have observed semi-colon and colon abuse, this week's blog will be an analysis of how we use these in our writing.

1. Your first assignment is to go to the Grammar Girl website and read the pages on how to use semi-colons and colons.  

2. Then you will explain how to use each mark in your own words with examples for each rule.  

3.  Your examples should be about Crime and Punishment or Dorian Gray.  

Poetry Analysis

Below you have a poem.  Analyze the poem.  In your analysis, explain the author's purpose and how the author conveys this purpose through the use of literary devices.  Pull two to three devices to address.  (Note--the structure:))   

Anthem for Doomed Youth

BY WILFRED OWEN

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

      — Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

      Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; 

      Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

      And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?

      Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes

Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.

      The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.