ELA 11

January 22 and 23, 2014

ACT Prep
Questions 7-10

Bell Ringer
In your notebooks write down todays date. Answer the following question

Which of the following sentences does not contain an allusion?

A. Jennifer is as lovely as a rose. B. After she was told that the chocolate bar was like forbidden fruit, she wanted it even more. C. The hill next to school looked like Mount Everest to the small child. D. The food poisoning last week set off Hiroshima in my stomach.

Imagery
Creating a picture in the readers mind. Draws on our prior knowledge to get specific images across. Frequently use adjectives and adverbs. Show, dont tell. Something concrete that appeals to any of the five senses - sight, sound, touch, taste, smell - as well as metaphor, simile, and personification.

Examples of imagery
The following images might be used to describe a stroll on a summer night: Sight - a full moon in a black sky Sound - the chirp of crickets Taste - the tang of cold glass of lemonade Touch - a warm breeze Smell - freshly mowed grass

Practice- Find the images

T.S. Eliot The Winter Evening Of withered leaves about Settles Down your feet The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six oclock. And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

The burnt-out ends of smoky And at the corner of the days. street
And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

Create the images

In your notebook create the following chart and describe your perfect Saturday morning.
Sense Sight Taste Touch Smell Hear image

Diction
Diction:
The authors choice of words. Diction reflects the writers vision and steers the readers thought.

Specific diction brings the reader into the scene.

Diction
The writers purposewhether to entertain, inform, or persuadepartly determines diction.
If the authors purpose is to inform, the reader should expect straightforward diction.

If the writers purpose is to entertain, the reader will likely encounter words used in ironic, playful, or unexpected ways.

Diction also depends on the occasion. As with clothes, level of formality influences appropriate choices.

Diction
When studying diction, students must understand both
connotation (the meaning suggested by the word) denotation (the words literal meaning).

Practice
Explain the differences in connotation among the members of each of the following groups of words:

1. Hurl, throw, chuck 2. Giggle, laugh, snicker, cackle 3. Mansion, dwelling, residence, house, home, habitat

Tone vs. Mood

Tone influences diction. Tone: - the writer's attitude toward the audience/Subject he or she is writing about; a writer's tone can be serious, sarcastic, tongue-incheek, solemn, objective, satirical, solemn, wicked, etc. Mood - is the feeling a piece of literature evokes in the reader. Mood is the overall feeling of the piece, or passage.

Tone vs mood
Tone Example 1A Tone Example 1B Tone Example 2A Tone Example 2B Tone Example 3A Tone Example 3B

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935 Gilman was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1860. Aspiring to be an artist, she briefly attended the Rhode Island School of Design and married artist Charles Stetson. After the birth of her daughter she went into a deep and long-drawn depression. The medical treatment available not only failed to help her, it angered her. She was told to limit herself to a quiet domestic life and never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again. From her anger sprang The Yellow Wallpaper She ended her own life in 1935.

The Rest Cure

Google this.

Write down what it is/consists of on you stories.

6-8 weeks of bed rest Constant feeding Fatty, milk-based diet Force-feeding if needed Patients prohibited from talking, reading, writing, sewing