Hyphenated Modifier Connecting two or more adjectives together with a hyphen to produce creativity and cleverness in our writing. Sometimes a new way of saying something can make all the difference Hyphenated adjectives make our readers “sit- up and take notice” of our writing. Example: “I give him Marcel’s special Turn-on-the- Charm-and-Give-Them-the-Big-Pearly-Whites smile.” All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall

Repetition for Effect Repeat an important word, phrase etc. to stress its importance to the reader. Use this writing strategy to grab your reader’s attention. Example: Today I wore a red hat, not just any red hat, the red hat from my grandma, not just any grandma, my grandma.

Shared reading: “The Black Cat” By: Edgar Allan Poe

Remember the narrator is crazy! Point of view Let’s think about the point of views of the black cat and the narrator’s wife—would they tell the story the same way the narrator does? Remember the narrator is crazy!

Rewriting “The Black Cat” Your task Rewrite “The Black Cat” from the perspective of EITHER the black cat OR the narrator’s wife. How would the black cat or the narrator’s wife tell this story? Include: Figurative language Sensory details Descriptive details (adjectives) Dialogue Repetition for effect Hyphenated modifier

Example #1: Wife Point of view A few years later, my husband changed for the worst. He shouted at me with ill-language, and he even hit me. Usually, he just ignored me and spent his days drinking at home or at a bar in town. My husband did not care about me anymore, and I did not know what I could have done wrong. Pluto never noticed though—that is, he never noticed until my husband went completely mad and hurt him too.   One moonless night, I heard my husband stumbling home from the bar. I remained quietly in the bedroom because I was terrified of his drunkenness. I peeked through the partially opened bedroom door and saw him pick up my beloved Pluto. “Hello you stupid animal”, he slurred. Pluto sensed my husband’s hostility because he bit him. Suddenly, my husband chucked the petrified animal onto the floor. My husband’s eyes were filled with rage and madness. He whipped out his pocketknife, fiercely grabbed the cat by his throat, and carved out one of his white eyes. I was horrified, I was disgusted, I was horror-stricken! Was this the same man I married?

Example #2- Black Cat Point of view I adored my master, but sometimes I felt that he did not love me in return. One day, as he was going into the dark cellar, I was curious, so I followed him down the winding stairs. I accidentally think I tripped him because he screeched, “You useless annoying cat!” His face quickly changed like a warm sunny day into a storm- filled darkness. His eyes were overflowing with red rage, and he picked up an axe and swung it at me; however, his wife stopped him before he could slaughter me. Her soft delicate hands grasped his villainous arm holding the deadly weapon. Without a word, my master flung off his wife’s dainty hands and swung the axe into her brain as if he was chopping firewood. She plummeted onto the frigid floor, and I scurried away. I concealed myself behind a couch and watched my master figuring out how to deal with the betrayed body of his wife. That is when I decided that I must make him pay for his monstrous actions. I must make him pay.