Assignment: 11/18 Classwork: Ghazals

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 10-A (H)
2021-11-18T18:08:32Z

Due: Nov 18, 2021 by 11:59pm

After our lecture and example of ghazals, you will be writing your own with your table group!

Remember:

Between 5 and 15 rhymed couplets*

*Couplet = two rhyming lines; rhyme scheme different in ghazals

Each couplet is complete and can stand alone, both grammatically and as a thought/idea

Rhyme scheme

First two lines both end on the same word/phrase

In each of the following couplets, that word/phrase is repeated again at the end of the second line

The word that comes BEFORE that final word/phrase in each line is the rhyming word.

Author’s name is in the final couplet

Directions:

1. Choose your poem’s topic.

Thanksgiving dinner as a metaphor for life’s journey

Chocolate cake as a metaphor for the afterlife

Werewolves as a metaphor for humanity’s savage side

Scrolling through Snap stories as a metaphor for a crisis in friendship

Playing with a kitten as a metaphor for perfect joy and bliss and contentment

2. Choose your radif (“refrain” - the word or phrase that repeats)

3. Choose your qafia (the rhyming sound that comes before the radif)

4. Once you decide, have each person in your group write 2-3 couplets (your finished poem should be at least 5, but no more than 15)

Make sure the people doing the first and last couplets know, so they can have the repetition of the radif for the first and their name in the last.

5. Post your finished ghazal here, with the names of your authors!

After our lecture and example of ghazals, you will be writing your own with your table group!

Remember:

Between 5 and 15 rhymed couplets*

*Couplet = two rhyming lines; rhyme scheme different in ghazals

Each couplet is complete and can stand alone, both grammatically and as a thought/idea

Rhyme scheme

First two lines both end on the same word/phrase

In each of the following couplets, that word/phrase is repeated again at the end of the second line

The word that comes BEFORE that final word/phrase in each line is the rhyming word.

Author’s name is in the final couplet

Directions:

1. Choose your poem’s topic.

Thanksgiving dinner as a metaphor for life’s journey

Chocolate cake as a metaphor for the afterlife

Werewolves as a metaphor for humanity’s savage side

Scrolling through Snap stories as a metaphor for a crisis in friendship

Playing with a kitten as a metaphor for perfect joy and bliss and contentment

2. Choose your radif (“refrain” - the word or phrase that repeats)

3. Choose your qafia (the rhyming sound that comes before the radif)

4. Once you decide, have each person in your group write 2-3 couplets (your finished poem should be at least 5, but no more than 15)

Make sure the people doing the first and last couplets know, so they can have the repetition of the radif for the first and their name in the last.

5. Post your finished ghazal here, with the names of your authors!