SEPTEMBER 24TH – 28TH

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!

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