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Fresh and Engaging

RL5 Determining Word Meaning. Fresh and Engaging. The Target. Questions. What figurative language trick is being used? What does the quote mean? What tone does the quote create? How?. Opposites Attract. Antithesis: the balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences

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Fresh and Engaging

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  1. RL5 Determining Word Meaning Fresh and Engaging

  2. The Target

  3. Questions • What figurative language trick is being used? • What does the quote mean? • What tone does the quote create? How?

  4. Opposites Attract • Antithesis: the balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences • “with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage”

  5. It’s Alive! • Personification: giving human characteristics to non-human or inanimate things • “The air bites…it is nipping” (1.4.1-2).

  6. One Thing for Another • Metaphor: comparison made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. • The rose walked into the ballroom. • Simile: same as above, but using “like” or “as” • She looked like a rose in her red dress.

  7. Double Meaning • Pun: a word or phrase with two meanings • “New study of obesity looks for larger test group” • “Kids make nutritious snacks” • Double Entendre: a pun in which the second meaning is naughty

  8. Back to You • Classical Allusion: references to people and places of Greek and Roman literature • He was powerful like Zeus. • Allusion: references to historical event or another text • Like Washington, he braved battle for a good cause.

  9. Structural Matters • Parallel Construction: similar structure in a pair or series of words, phrases, or clauses. • “The more we do, the more we can do” (William Hazlitt) • Anastrophe: out of order words • “Echoed the hills” versus “the hills echoed”

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