English 8November 2, 2011

Do Now

Complete Wednesday’s DLR. When you are finished, give your paper to your shoulder buddy to correct.

Your DLR is due on Friday. It must be corrected and graded by your buddy.

Your name and your buddy’s name must be on it, in order to receive credit.

GUM

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is a participle? What is a participial phrase?

Participles and Participial Phrases are examples of verbals. A verbal is a verb that DOES not act like a verb in a sentence. It is, instead, another part of speech.

Present Participles end in –ing

Past Participles end in -ed

Participles/Participial Phrases

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: Examples of present participle:

Right Side: traveling, talking, eating

Left Side: Examples of past participles:

Right Side: identified, possessed, haunted

Left Side: What is a participial phrase?

Right Side: A participial phrase is comprised of a participle and other words that complete its meaning. A participial phrase can act as an adj.

Homework tonight: GUM 8 Parts 1, 2, 3

Edgar Allan Poe“The Tell-Tale Heart,” 1843

American Romantic poets and writers of this period were:

DRAMATIC! OBSESSED! EMOTIONAL!

The story of man, an eye and a heart . . . Thump. Thump.

Vocabulary from “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Remember, you are responsible for creating flash cards for all vocabulary words.

You are also responsible for creating a vocabulary window for the following words, which you should highlight or circle on your vocabulary handout.

Profound, sagacity, stifled, audacity, mockery

Literary Elements

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What literary elements does Edgar Allan Poe utilize in “The Tell-Tale Heart” story?

Left Side: What is imagery?

Right Side: Imagery is language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell). Example: “the hinges creaked”.

More Literary Elementsthat Edgar Allan Poe Utilizes

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is figurative language?

Right Side: Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and alliteration.

Figurative Language Defined

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is a simile?

Right Side: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things, typically, marked by use of “like” or “as”. For example: “much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton”.

Figurative Language Defined

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is a metaphor?

Right Side: A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things using the verb “to be” and not using “like” or “as”, like a simile does. Example: “He is a pig”.

Literary Terms Defined

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is alliteration?

Right Side: Alliteration is repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words. Alliteration is used to create melody, establish mood, call attention to important words, and point out similarities and contrasts. Example: “hideous heart”.

Literary Elements Continued

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is repetition?

Right Side: Repetition is when words or certain phrases are repeated for a stronger emphasis by the author. Example: “louder, louder”.

Literary Elements Continued

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What is grim humor?

Right Side: Grim humor is humor that involves topics and events that are usually treated seriously—death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, war—that are instead treated as humorous. Another word for this is satire. Example: “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”

Literary Elements Continued

Cornell Notes:

Left Side: What are supernatural and horror subjects?

Right Side: Supernatural and horror subjects are intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the “horror” experience has been the intrusion of an evil or misunderstood supernatural element into everyday human experience. Example: “Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow . . .”.

Writing AssignmentIn a minimum of 200 words, tell

somebody off ! Don’t say who. Just give the person a piece of your mind, in writing, in a letter you will never send. Express yourself with strong, but not foul language. VENT! VENT! VENT!

Use at least 5 different literary elements to get your point across to this person, who has infuriated you.

Imagery, Simile

Metaphor, Alliteration, Repetition

(Grim Humor, Horror and Supernatural)

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