Very vivacious vocabulary

(accompanying awesome alliteration action)

Identify this literary deviceAP Literature isn't the worst class.

Litotes

DirectionsIn your groups of four you will identify the

literary device and write the answer down on your whiteboards. A number will be selected randomly, so make sure you all have the answers down.

Put your boards up when instructed to do so. The team with the most points will win a super prize.

Definition The act or an example of substituting a mild,

indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive.

Euphemism

Definition Whenever you describe something by

comparing it with something else

Figurative Language

Example"It's raining cats and dogs"

Colloquial speech

ExampleJuliet:"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.“ Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170)

Apostrophe

Example "Human speech is like a cracked cauldron

on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity.“ (Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856)

Simile

Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nWPUv-3gIg

Personification

Definition A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or

phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Anaphora

Definition In rhetoric, a verbal pattern (a type of

antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.

Chiasmus

Example "crown" for "royalty”

Metonymy

Definition A play on words, either on different senses of

the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words.

Pun

Definition A figure of speech in which a part is used to

represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part

Synechdoche

Definition The occurrence of the same letter or sound at

the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Alliteration

Example Don't go near the water until you've learned to

swim.

Paradox

Definition The act or an example of substituting a mild,

indirect, or vague term for oneconsidered harsh, blunt, or offensive.

Euphemism

Definition A figure of speech consisting of an

understatement in which an affirmative isexpressed by negating its opposite.

Litotes

Example ABCs for alphabet

Synechdoche

Example To act or not to act, that was Maria's

dilemma

Allusion

Example found missing

oxymoron

Definition 1. In grammar, the omission of a word or words

necessary for complete construction but understood in context. E.g. If (it is) possible, (you) come early. 2. The sign (...) that something has been left out of a quotation. To be or not...that is the question.

Ellipsis

ExampleReviewing literary terms is the most boring

thing in the universe.

Hyperbole

Definition a statement or proposition that seems self

contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Paradox

Definition a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause

variety) that states "Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one."

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Definition a general category of fallacies in which a claim

or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.

Ad hominem

Intermission Tally up points and put boards away.

Make sure your board is clean!

Essay Time

TipsBreak down the prompt. What exactly is it

asking you to do?

Uh oh. Ms. Robards didn't specify how many quotes or references we need. What do I do?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+quotes+do+I+need+in+an+essay%3F

Read your essay out loud and with a friend or family member to check for errors.

Common errors Do not include "I" or "me" in your essay. Just

cross it out.

Example: I believe that Hamlet was truly mad and not just pretending because he was unable to stop himself from hurting people he claimed to love.

Common errors, cont.Make sure to include your thesis in your first

paragraph, and tie subsequent paragraphs to that thesis statement.

Don't introduce your thesis in your conclusion.

Use MLA http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/

747/01/

Here's a resource. I still use it when I write papers, so you know it's good.

Have funEssays are fun. I mean it. If you're not having

fun analyzing Hamlet, go run around the block or eat some chocolate and then come back to it.

That reminds me, italicize or underline Hamlet

Writing Rubric http://crobards.edublogs.org/2012/11/12/

writing-rubric/

Take some time to look through the rubric and identify and area you want to work on in your writing.

Give one get one/Ticket out the door- talk to three people about how they plan to improve their writing and record their answers