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Lines of Scrimmage + Literary Terms Chart

Good Morning!Monday October 3, 2011

Word Puzzle

Line Up Backwards

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Announcement!

Open House Tomorrow Night

4:30-6:30

Tomorrow!

Literary Terms

QUIZ!!Multiple ChoiceFill in the Blank

Create your own Examples

Review Session

Today!

3:00-3:30

Class Objectives Students will be able to …

Review New Vocabulary Procedures

Fill out Lit Terms Chart

Review Literary Terms

Language Objectives Students will be able to …

Recall Literary Terms Review and Discuss Week 1 Vocabulary and Homework

Agenda

Set Up Notebooks for Week 1 Vocabulary

Start Vocab Homework

Review Week 1 Vocabulary Words

Review Literary Terms for Quiz Tomorrow Review Activity

Agenda

Set Up Notebooks for Week 1 Vocabulary

Start Vocab Homework

Review Week 1 Vocabulary Words

Review Literary Terms for Quiz Tomorrow Review Activity

Weekly VocabEvery Monday, you will be getting 7

words. The accompanying vocab homework will be due EVERY THURSDAY

Vocab Words and Homework will go into your notebook and will be a large part of your grade

Setting up your notebook for weekly vocab

Vocab Words will go on the left side Vocab Homework will go on the right side

Each page will always be labeled on Monday.You will be responsible for putting the homework into your notebook. You will get your homework back the following Friday.

ProceduresWhen you come in, you will pick up TWO PAPERS:

Vocab Homework

Vocab Words

We will go over the Vocab Words, their parts of speech and their definitions.

Once it is completed, you will attach it into your notebook

Let’s get started.

Vocab Week 1Pg 10: Vocab Week 1 WORDSPg 11: Vocab Week 1 HOMEWORK

Part of Speech:Noun

Praise or Applause

Definition:

The actors in the play were awarded with wild acclaim from the audience.

Acclaim

Part of Speech:Adjective

Having a circular or winding course

Definition:

The circuitous road proved to be quite dangerous to drive.

Circuitous

Part of Speech:Noun

A scraped area or wearing away

Definition:

The abrasion on her finger prevented her from texting as efficiently as she would have

liked.

Abrasion

Part of Speech:Adjective

Decayed, deteriorated or partially run down

Definition:

The dilapidated home looked asif it had once been beautiful.

Dilapidated

Part of Speech:Adjective

Marked by hidden dangers, hazards or perils

Definition:

The treacherous bridge caused me to question the path ahead.

Treacherous

Part of Speech:Verb

To put down with authority or force

Definition:

The students felt they had to suppress their opinions so they joined student government and now, their

voices are heard!!

Suppress

To keep from public knowledge

Part of Speech:Verb

To make an educated guess based on given facts

Definition:

One can infer from Andy Warhol’s art that he was a bit off the edge.

Infer

Vocab Week 1HOMEWORKDue Thursday

Vocab Week 1TESTFriday!

Fill in the BlankWrite a Sentence

Part of Speech Definition

BINGO!In order to get the square for the word, you MUST write (in very tiny letters) the MOST important part of the definition of the literary

term

In the order of time

Plot Type: Chronological

An exaggeration.

Example: I am so hungry,

I could eat four pizzas.

Hyperbole

Words used to create vivid mental images.

These words appeal to the five senses.

Imagery

The unified structure of incidents in a literary work

Plot

The common strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action.

The reader enters the story on the verge of an important moment that is not the

beginning of the story

In Medias Res

a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events in order to provide background for the current story

Plot Type: Flashback

The act or process of furnishing critical commentary or explanatory notes

Annotation

A fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel

Short Story

The Narrator is a character in the story and uses the first-person pronoun I.

First Person Point of View

The story is told through the perspective of the narrator.

The events after the falling action in which the problem of the story is

resolved or worked out.  

Denouement

The portion of the story when the tension/drama rises

Rising Action

A solution to the problem is given;The plot begins to resolve itself

 

Falling Action

Figurative Language

Words used in an imaginative, non-literal sense.

Simile and Metaphors

Example: His words were the

thorns that pierced my heart.

Essential to the plot.  It ties one incident to

another and makes the plot move. 

Within a short story there may be only one central struggle but there also may be one dominant

struggle with many minor ones

 

Conflict

The act of creating and developing a character.

We can only know what the author tells us!

Characterization:

The turning point of a narrative work; the point of highest tension or drama;

when the action starts in which the solution begins

 

Climax

A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Example: Her eyes are likethe stars- boundless and beautiful.

Simile

A direct comparison that does not use ‘like’ or ‘as’

Example: His eyes weredaggers that piercedthrough my soul.

Metaphor

Attention Grabber (AKA Hook)

An opening statement that grabs the reader’s attention and makes the reader want to continue reading your essay

The narrator knows all and tells what each character feels and thinks.

Third Person Omniscient

‘Omni-’ is a prefix that means all.

Mood

The atmosphere or the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

settingobjectsdetailsimageswords

The author directly states the character’s personality traits.

Direct Characterization

“Romeo is banished / There is not end, no limit, measure, bound, in that word’s death.

No words can that woe sound”

Narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character.

Everything is viewed from this character’s perspective

Third Person Limited

Writer’s attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience

Example:The poor boy’s responsibilities at

home were so great that he did not have enough time to have any fun.

Tone

The introduction of thesetting, situation and main

characters 

Exposition

Indirect CharacterizationReaders infer personality traits based on comments and actions of the characters

around them.

“Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return”

-Romeo Describing Juliet

Perspective or vantage point from which a story is told

Point of View

Literary Terms QUIZ TOMORROW!!

The unified structure of incidents in a literary work

Plot

In the order of time

Plot Type: Chronological

Words used to create vivid mental images.

These words appeal to the five senses.

Imagery

a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events in order to provide background for the current story

Plot Type: Flashback

The act or process of furnishing critical commentary or explanatory notes

Annotation

An exaggeration.

Example: I am so hungry,

I could eat four pizzas.

Hyperbole

The Narrator is a character in the story and uses the first-person pronoun I.

First Person Point of View

The story is told through the perspective of the narrator.

The events after the falling action in which the problem of the story is

resolved or worked out.  

Denouement

The portion of the story when the tension/drama rises

Rising Action

A solution to the problem is given;The plot begins to resolve itself

 

Falling Action

A fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel

Short Story

The common strategy of beginning a story in the middle of the action.

The reader enters the story on the verge of an important moment that is not the

beginning of the story

In Medias Res

Figurative Language

Words used in an imaginative, non-literal sense.

Simile and Metaphors

Example: His words were the

thorns that pierced my heart.

Essential to the plot.  It ties one incident to

another and makes the plot move. 

Within a short story there may be only one central struggle but there also may be one dominant

struggle with many minor ones

 

Conflict

The turning point of a narrative work; the point of highest tension or drama;

when the action starts in which the solution begins

 

Climax

A comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Example: Her eyes are likethe stars- boundless and beautiful.

Simile

A direct comparison that does not use ‘like’ or ‘as’

Example: His eyes weredaggers that piercedthrough my soul.

Metaphor

The act of creating and developing a character.

We can only know what the author tells us!

Characterization:

The author directly states the character’s personality traits.

Direct Characterization

“Romeo is banished / There is not end, no limit, measure, bound, in that word’s death.

No words can that woe sound”

Attention Grabber (AKA Hook)

An opening statement that grabs the reader’s attention and makes the reader want to continue reading your essay

The narrator knows all and tells what each character feels and thinks.

Third Person Omniscient

‘Omni-’ is a prefix that means all.

Mood

The atmosphere or the feeling created in the reader by a literary work

settingobjectsdetailsimageswords

Perspective or vantage point from which a story is told

Point of View

Narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character.

Everything is viewed from this character’s perspective

Third Person Limited

Writer’s attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience

Example:The poor boy’s responsibilities at

home were so great that he did not have enough time to have any fun.

Tone

The introduction of thesetting, situation and main

characters 

Exposition

Indirect CharacterizationReaders infer personality traits based on comments and actions of the characters

around them.

“Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return”

-Romeo Describing Juliet