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Very vivacious vocabulary

Very vivacious vocabulary . (accompanying awesome alliteration action) . Identify this literary device. AP Literature isn't the worst class. Litotes . Directions.

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Very vivacious vocabulary

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  1. Very vivacious vocabulary (accompanying awesome alliteration action)

  2. Identify this literary device • AP Literature isn't the worst class. • Litotes

  3. Directions • In 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.

  4. Definition • The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive. • Euphemism

  5. Definition • Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else • Figurative Language

  6. Example • "It's raining cats and dogs" • Colloquial speech

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

  8. 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

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

  10. Definition • A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. • Anaphora

  11. 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

  12. Example • "crown" for "royalty” • Metonymy

  13. Definition • A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of different words. • Pun

  14. 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

  15. Definition • The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. • Alliteration

  16. Example • Don't go near the water until you've learned to swim. • Paradox

  17. Definition • The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one • considered harsh, blunt, or offensive. • Euphemism

  18. Definition • A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is • expressed by negating its opposite. • Litotes

  19. Example • ABCs for alphabet • Synechdoche

  20. Example • To act or not to act, that was Maria's dilemma • Allusion

  21. Example • found missing • oxymoron

  22. 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

  23. Example • Reviewing literary terms is the most boring thing in the universe. • Hyperbole

  24. Definition • a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. • Paradox

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. Intermission • Tally up points and put boards away. • Make sure your board is clean!

  28. Essay Time

  29. Tips • Break 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. Have fun • Essays 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

  34. 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

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