SEPTEMBER 24 TH – 28 TH AP English Language and Composition

Housekeeping Your Socratic Seminar responses were due on Saturday! The forum is now locked. Not completing these tasks will hurt your grade.  Create an alarm on your phone or make a note in your planner to remain organized.  Be sure to answer the prompt in its entirety! Final warning! I will not give credit to half-completed assignments. Be sure that you are reviewing your notes regularly.

More Housekeeping With that said, clear your desk for a quiz!

Focus Lesson SAT Question of the Day!  Please record today’s question in your journal!

Warm-Up View Jib Jab’s “This Land” and “Time for Some Campaigning” Journal entry #4: In a well-written paragraph(s), write a response to the following:  What is the intended message? What rhetorical technique (s) does the creator use, and for what purpose? Does the video address any of the three rhetorical appeals? Which? And how do they contribute to the effectiveness of the video?  No journal plus for this exercise!

Rhetorical Strategies & Techniques: “Matters of Style: Diction” Imagery  Imagery allows a writer to show a reader what she means instead of just telling someone.  Imagery involves one or more of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight). An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses.

Imagery Literal language refers to stating the facts without any exaggerations or alterations of the subject at hand. You say what you mean. Sensory Detail – details that appeal to one of the five senses  Example: She smelled of wet cigarettes and bacon.  Example :As they slowly climbed the long, steep staircase, the only sound was his grandmothers' labored breathing and the mournful creak of the wooden stairs.

Figurative Language Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking at the world. It always makes use of a comparison between different things. Figurative language compares two things that are different in enough ways so that their similarities, when pointed out, are interesting, unique and/or surprising.

Figurative Language Simile  a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”  Example: Playing chess with Ashley is like trying to outsmart a computer.  Example: His temper was as explosive as a volcano.

Figurative Language Metaphor  Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining.  Unlike similes that use the words “as” or “like” to make a comparison, metaphors state that something is something else.

Figurative Language Metaphor  Example: Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.  Example: We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a hog.

Figurative Language Hyperbole  It is often confused with a simile or a metaphor because it often compares two objects.  The difference is a hyperbole is an exaggeration.  Example: His feet were as big as a barge. It looks like a simile. It is comparing foot size to the size of a barge. Everyone knows that a barge is approximately 700 feet long. Imagine getting a pair of shoes that big!  Example: “I almost died laughing.” “I tried a thousand times.”

Figurative Language Symbolism  In literature, symbolism is used to provide meaning to the writing beyond what is actually being described. The plot and action that take place in a story can be thought of as one level, while the symbolism of certain things in the writing act on another level to enhance the story.

Figurative Language Symbolism  A simple example might be the occurrence of a storm at a critical point, when there is conflict or high emotions. The storm might symbolize these.  A river in a scene could represent the flow of life, from birth to death. Flowers can symbolize youth or beauty.  Not everything in a story is necessarily symbolic. A garden landscape is just a garden... until it is contrasted with a bustling city, at which point the garden could symbolize tranquility, peace, or escape.

Figurative Language Personification  giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas)  Example: "Once again, the heart of America is heavy. The spirit of America weeps for a tragedy that denies the very meaning of our land." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson

Figurative Language Understatement  when a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is  "It's just a flesh wound." (Black Knight, after having both of his arms cut off, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)  "I have to have this operation.... It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." (Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger)

Formal Assessment: Timed Writing – 1995 AP Essay Prompt, Ellen Goodman’s “Company Man” You will have forty minutes to complete the assessment. If you have any difficulties, don’t worry. Do your best. Remember our improvement tips following the Soto prompt!

Homework! Continue Reading Blink. Multiple Choice Practice next class!