Wednesday, May 10 essay "The Story of an Hour"

Collecting denotation / connotation exercise from yesterday
      Passing back controlling idea essay

In class review of Literary elements and techniques
             Practice sheet (class handout / copy below)

Tomorrow you will be writing another controlling idea essay; this time the material is Edith Wharton's "The Story of an Hour."  It will be due at he close of class. I will have a fresh copy of the story for you, but you should reread it again tonight.

What must a controlling idea have?
         Essential: name the controlling idea or theme.
                          tell what literary element or technique is used to develop the controlling idea or theme.        
                          weave in textual examples of the literary technique or element.
                        If you are using more than one text, which you will have on the ELA exam, identify the text.

What must you not have?
 Plot summary. Only select the information that is relevant.

Name__________________

Literature, Figurative Language, & More Practice Worksheet

Literature Elements:  For each item below, select one of the literature elements listed and write it on the line after the sentence.  Each literature element will be used only ONE time.

   Plot – 1^st Person – 3^rd Person – Theme – Symbolism – Protagonist – Antagonist – Conflict – Climax – Setting

1.      The author/narrator of the story is NOT a character in the story.   _____________________

2.      Sam is the name of the main character.   _____________________

3.      Near the end of the story, the lost, blind dog nearly fell down a cliff before being found.  _________________

4.      The author/narrator of the story IS a character in the story.  ____________________

5.      In the story “The Cost of Gratefulness”, the “corner” represented “excitement”.  _______________________

6.      A middle-school boy must raise his “F” in math to a “B” in a day, or he misses the season.  _______________

7.      The storyline is this:  A shy girl writes a letter to her crush, he reads it, and they become a couple.  ________

8.      “It is always good to give back to someone who gives to you” is what I learned in the story.  ______________

9.      Jason is a bully in the story and continually harasses the main character.  ____________________

10.  The story takes place in the fall, in Mr. Moffatt’s room, in Suncrest.  _____________________

Figurative Language:  For each item below, select one of the literature elements listed and write it on the line after the sentence.  Each literature element could be used MORE THAN ONCE.

Onomatopoeia – Simile – Metaphor – Alliteration – Hyperbole – Personification – Oxymoron

11.  Katie is as talkative as an auctioneer.  ______________________

12.  Sally sells seashells by the seashore.  ______________________

13.  The trees touched the sky.   _______________________

14.  Wind whooshed through the girls’ hair.  ____________________

15.  Garrett is a beast on the football field.  ___________________

16.  Mr. Moffatt has given us a ton of notes this year!  _____________________

17.  The fisherman caught a jumbo shrimp.  __________________

18.  Mary motioned toward Michael to move his motor home.  ___________________

19.  Mr. Moffatt gets excited sometimes and talks a million miles an hour.  _______________________

20.  The lazy boy’s pencil yelled at him to begin working!  ___________________

21.  Science journaling sure is an easy task.  ___________________

22.  “My little brother sure is a pain!” yelled Ryan.  _____________________

23.  Mr. Moffatt said, “Mrs. Moffatt is Faith Hill, and I’m Tim McGraw.”  ____________________

As the Moffatts searched for yet another lost cat, they heard a “Hoot, hoot” in the trees. 

TERMS QUIZ / MATCHING   on Tuesday, May 16

Literary elements are the universal constituents of literature and thus can be found in any written or oral story.

PLOT STRUCTURE

Exposition 

Background information? About characters, setting, situation?

Complication? When does the first conflict/problem arise and develop ? What other problems start to arise and continue to develop? 

 Crisis What is the moment of decision (internal dilemma resolved) for the main character? When is the character faced with his/her internal conflict and realizes she/he must make a decision?

 Climax When does the character MAKE his decision and ACT on it? What actions results from this decision? What is the highest point of interest (in terms of action) in the story? When is the suspense (regarding what the character will do to solve the problem) over? 

Resolution (denouement) Tying up of loose ends

Other plot devices/terms include: flashback, flash forward, time lapse, suspense, foreshadowing, cliffhangers, surprise endings, closed endings, open endings. 

 Theme: The story's message or main point. 

Conflict: What people/forces/ideas/interests/values/institutions oppose each other?

(man against man, many against nature, man against himself)

Characterization: What kinds of person/people are the character(s)? Their beliefs/hopes/dreams/ideals/ values/morals/fears/strengths/weaknesses/vices/virtues/talents? How do they conduct themselves? What do they say and do to reveal themselves? What do others say and do about the? What are your opinions or feelings about them? Classifications of types of characters include: protagonist, antagonist, foil, stereotype, flat, round, static, dynamic. 

What do others say and do? What are your opinions or feelings about them? Classifications of types of characters include: protagonist, antagonist, foil, stereotype, flat, round, static, dynamic.

Setting: refers to TIME and PLACE:

Style: The way the writer chooses to arrange his sentence structure (syntax) as well as the words (diction) he chooses. What is the overall effect of the way he writes? Simple, involved, poetic, colloquial, humorous, pedantic, child-like? How does it contribute to the author’s message and the overall effect the author wishes to create? 

 mood is the atmosphere of the story

tone is the author's attitude towards the topic. Joyful? Melancholy? Fatalistic? Angry? Peaceful? Scary? Mysterious?

We can identify both mood and tone by looking at the setting, characters, details, and word choices

POINT OF VIEW Who is the narrator?

 first person or third person?  (limited or omniscient?) Why significant? Do you trust the narrator?

Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its

normal everyday, literal meaning. Writers use figurative language to make

their work more interesting or more dramatic than literal language, which

simply states facts.

• simile - comparison using like or as
• metaphor- direct comparison, using a form of the verb to be
• personification- human qualities / attributes to non human
• onomatopoeia- sounds reflective of the sense of a word
• oxymoron- contradictory terms appear in conjunction (falsely true)
• hyperbole- exaggeration
• allusion- an expression designed to call something to mind to call something o mind without explicitly mentioning it.
• idiom- expressions that reflect some underlying ideas our principles of a culture. "hot potato"; "at the drop of a hat"; "hot mess" 
• Imagery- sensory language (seeing, sound, taste, feeling, olfactory)
• symbolism- use of symbols
• alliteration-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
• assonance- repetition of vowel sounds
• consonance- repetition of consonance sounds within words (pitter patter)
• synecdoche- a part represents the whole
• irony-words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. 
• sarcasm (also a rhetorical device); words meant to hurt; different than irony
• litotes- understatement
• pun- form of word play that suggests two or more meanings