Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, April 4
In class: reading prologue to establish mood and tone through diction. Remember diction is word choice.
Prologue questions: As many are on field trips, this will be collected at the beginning of class on Monday, April 3 class handout / copy below
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Establishing mood and tone through diction
Learning Targets:
I can interpret words and phrases as they are used in
the text, including technical, connotative and figurative
meanings, and analyze how the specific word choices shape the meaning.
I can determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
I can analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
I can determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
Essential question: How is mood and tone established in the prologue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome?
Tone
Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject.
Mood
Mood is the atmosphere of a piece of writing; it’s the emotions a selection arouses in a reader. (How are you feeling about what is happening in terms of the characters, setting, theme, point of view (1st person limited / omniscient; 3rd person limited / omniscient).
Name__________________________________
Prologue questions
Due Monday,
April 3 For full credit, your responses must be complete, well-written,
grammatically correct sentences.
1. What
does the name Starkfield suggest about the setting?
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2. How
does Herman Gow corroborate this later? Find his words on page 6.
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3. Give
two words that portray the stereotype of an engineer.
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4. How
is the narrator, whose name we never learn, atypical*? (Think about how he
views Ethan). (*not representative of a type, group, or class)
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5. What
could be the significance of the missing “L” structure on the farm?
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6. What
places to Herman Gow and Mrs. Ned Hale Occupy in the story?
a. Gow:________________________________________________________
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b. Hale:_________________________________________________________
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