1. Romeo and Juliet MIELCon
Let’s prepare for this paragraph….

2. Literary Devices
Metaphor, simile, pun, personification, irony, foreshadow, symbolism, paradox, oxymoron, apostrophe.
How many literary devices should you have in your adapted script?
Three
What are they? (Note: If you don’t have three at this time, make sure you make note of this. Put this on your “To do” list for the computer lab.)
Choose ONE of the literary devices that you used for the MIELCon paragraph.

3. Prompt
Write a MIEL-Con paragraph explaining ONE literary device and its effect on the audience or story.
Huh? Effect. What effect does it have? When an audience reads/views your scene, specifically with this literary device, what difference does it make?

4. Effect of Literary Device
Does it (the literary device)
create an emotion you want your audience to feel? If so, what emotion?
convey certain thoughts or ideas that you want your audience to experience upon hearing the literary device?
impact or emphasize a theme or character within the play that you want to make sure your audience understands?
Please take a moment to figure our what your MAIN IDEA sentence is going to be.

5. (M) MAIN IDEA Does your main idea sentence answer the prompt?
Explain how ONE of the literary devices you used in your script affects the audience or the story.
Remember my suggested “effects”:
creates an emotion
conveys certain thoughts or ideas that you want your audience to experience
impacts or emphasizes a theme or character within the play
What does your literary device do?
The answer to this question is your main idea sentence.

6. (I) Introduction to Evidence
Brief background (one sentence)
At what point in the script does the quote you are about to use come in? (one sentence)
Remember to use a signal phrase to lead into the quotation.
Here are some common signal phrases: states, says, narrates, recalls, asks, wonders, exclaims.
Incorrect: In the script it says, “Julia’s eyes are like the stars.”
Correct: Ron says, “Julia’s eyes are like the stars.”

7. (E) Evidence
Look at your quote/evidence. Does it support your MAIN IDEA?
(Hint: This is most likely your actual literary device)

8. (L) Link What does your quote “say”?
How does your quote actually do what you said would do?
If you said that it
creates an emotion
conveys certain thoughts or ideas that you want your audience to experience
impacts or emphasizes a theme or character within the play
HOW does it actually do that?

9. (C) Conclusion Bring it all back to your main idea.
How does the evidence you have just used work to support your main idea? Make a statement that makes the connection between your main idea and your evidence clear.

10. Remember…
Citations!
The narrator feels that she has been punched in the stomach and states, “Though I liked the sharp taste of garlic and pepper biting my tongue, I stopped eating my mother’s food” (106).
Comma needed after the signal phrase
Parentheses are around the page number
Page number is written without “pg”
Period comes after the parentheses (not inside the quotes)

11. Remember…No first/second person
Do not use “I, you, your, my, me, mine, our, we,” when writing about literature.
*Exception: Of course, it is okay to quote evidence that has first and second person.

12. Formatting! Typed in 12 point Times New Roman font Double spaced
1 inch margins
Proper MLA heading in the top left (heading is also double spaced)
Beyonce Knowles, Jay Z, Kobe Bryant, Justin Bieber
Ms. Mueller
7th Grade Language Arts
2 June 2014

13. Affect/Effect Affect, Effect The simile affects the audience…
Affect is a verb that means “to move or influence.”
Effect as a noun means “a consequence or result.”
Learning about the Holocaust affected him deeply.
What effect did the acidic soil produce in the plants?
The simile affects the audience…
The effect of the simile is…

14. Present Tense That means ALL forms of present tense are acceptable.
Present simple: Obama thinks his dad is a prince.
Present continuous: While Obama is listening to his friends make fun of him, he can’t help but think of his Grandpa’s wise words.
Present perfect: Obama has seen bullying before and this is very similar to what he has experienced.
Present perfect continuous: Even though Obama has been tolerating his bullies’ accusations for some time now, he just can’t seem to stand up for himself.
While passive voice is not an ideal voice to write in, as long as it’s in present tense, it’s okay. Example: Obama is treated unfairly by his classmates.

15. Grammar, spelling, punctuation…
Double check any grammar, spelling, and punctuation issues you might think are incorrect. You can have your group mates take a look and figure it out together.

16. Finally… Read through the paragraph once again. Does it make sense?
Do the ideas all link together nicely?
Is a transition needed anywhere to show cohesion?