Mar
4
Dialect
March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Objectives:
Know what dialect is
Understand how dialect creates effects mood
Warm-up:
Pretend each person in the following situations asks you how you are feeling. Write a sentence or two, appropriate for the situation, answering the question.
Your at a black-tie ball, and a waiter politely asks…
Your at a concert, and that person you’ve noticed all night finally comes over [...]
Mar
4
Onomatopoeia
March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Objectives:
Know what onomatopoeia is.
Understand how “sound-words” can convey meaning that strictly denotative words can’t.
Warm-up:
Describe a situation or a time when words could not express how you really felt, for example when something amazing or devastating happened, or when you felt uncomfortable or “on the spot.” What kinds of words/sounds came out of your mouth by [...]
Mar
3
Rationale:
The magic of writing comes when an author and an audience harmonize–the author anticipates what the reader needs, and the reader feels like the author “gets” them. Mastery of this art means we can commune(icate) over centuries, across cultures and past other chasms that would divide us.
It’s not so unusual to feel this in conversation [...]
Mar
2
Allusion and Implication & Inference
March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Objective (really one objective written from two different perspectives):
Understand how authors IMPLY meaning though ALLUSION
Know how to INFER meaning by investigating references
Warm-up
Read the following excerpt from the Worsley OnLine school project
An allusion is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two. [...]
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