Unit 1
This type of context clue is easy to spot in a text because it is often next to the unfamiliar word and might be set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses.
What is a definition/restatement?
Definition: showing sorrow or regret for having done wrong.
What is Penitent?
Definition: being impressively full and deep, usually referring to someone’s voice.
What is Sonorous?
Definition: to repeat information, facts, or ideas with little understanding or comprehension
What is Regurgitate?
Definition: having or showing good judgment and an ability to grasp difficult concepts and ideas
What is Sagacious?
Something that is Blank is understood despite not being clearly stated, while something that is Blank is clearly stated.
What is implicit and explicit?
The central message or a universal truth that the author conveys through the characters and plot.
What is theme?
Used to lead one story, or plot, into another. In framing, an introductory narrative is first presented to pave the way for a second narrative or a set of shorter narratives that form the main story.
What is Framing?
The Blank of a word is its dictionary definition. Blank, on the other hand, is the emotional associations that a word carries with it.
What is denotation and connotation?
The author’s attitude toward the subject as well as the author’s approach to the audience.
What is tone?
The themes and settings of Blank writing focus on the macabre:
existentialist dilemmas
contrasts between truth and falsehood, life and death, love and hate, happiness and suffering
medieval architecture
horrific themes
a generally dark tone
What is Gothic writing?
is the beginning of the story
begins with a “hook” to get the reader interested
establishes the characters
introduces the main conflict
details the setting, time of year, weather, and other relevant information
What is Exposition?
Using this narrative technique, you heighten the suspense—especially before the climax—by having a character race against time.
What is the Ticking Clock Scenario?
When writing this general Blank, you only need to write the claim, topic sentences that forecast the main idea of each paragraph, and a few supporting details for each.
What is an outline?
The style gives writers a way to incorporate and cite sources in academic writing. You may choose to summarize, paraphrase, or quote the texts you are analyzing as a way to illustrate your point.
What is MLA?
Read the excerpt from Beowulf.
Straightway the feud with fee I settled,
to the Wylfins sent, o’er watery ridges,
treasures olden: oaths he swore me.
Which response most effectively explains why King Hrothgar’s story supports the theme that one must always honor one’s oaths?
Hrothgar’s story shows that Beowulf’s father owed Hrothgar a debt for helping to settle a feud with the Wylfins, so it is noble that Beowulf has come to kill Grendel.
Which lines from a Shakespearean sonnet best exemplify the use of hyperbole? \
a) Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, /
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
b)If this be error and upon me proved, /
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
c)Love is not love /
Which alters when it alteration finds, /Or bends with the remover to remove.
d)Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks /
Within his bending sickle’s compass come.
Read the excerpt from “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Which option most effectively explains how the speaker seems to know that the lady in the poem is good, at peace, and innocent?
a) The speaker is an excellent judge of character and can always tell from strangers’ expressions and appearances if they are good or bad people.
b) The speaker is making a determination that a person who is happy must be a person who is good.
c) The speaker is well acquainted with the lady and knows from personal experience that she is innocent and at peace.
d) The speaker is making an assumption that the lady’s outer beauty indicates inner goodness.
What is d?
Read the sentence from Rebecca.
I can close my eyes now, and look back on it, and see myself as I must have been, standing on the threshold of the house, a slim, awkward figure in my stockinette dress, clutching in my sticky hands a pair of gauntlet gloves.
Which option accurately explains the use of flashback in the sentence?
a) This flashback provides the narrator with a nostalgic memory that she can keep forever.
b) This flashback provides the narrator with proof of how her husband misled her.
c) This flashback provides the narrator with a reminder of how much she has matured.
d) This flashback provides the narrator with a reason to forget about her past.
What is C?
Reread “Musée des Beaux Arts.”
Which option most effectively explains how the setting contributes to the overall meaning of the poem?
a) The poem is set in ancient Greece; the fall of Icarus was just one of many mythological disasters.
b) The poem is set in a painting inside a museum, which creates an effect of distance from suffering.
c) The poem depicts the 16th-century Belgian countryside, which shows how focused people were on working.
d) The poem depicts a busy scene; the fall of Icarus is barely seen or mentioned.
What is B?
The steps to help the story have a beginning and an end.
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
The writing skill used in the excerpt from Chapter 11 of Frankenstein;
"A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. By degrees, I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes."
What is a flashback?
What is the error in the sentence?
Me and Jake went down to the park.
What is "Jake and I?"
A list of ideas on the topic of the character, Frankenstein.
What is Listing?
-Frankenstein is misunderstood
-He is evil, and has done nasty things
-He feels lonely
The outline of a literary analysis essay.
1) introduction
background or context for the topic
claim (generally included as the final sentence of the introduction) – Use the claim you created for this essay.
2) body paragraphs
paragraph 1 – topic:
topic sentence
supporting details
paragraph 2 – topic:
topic sentence
supporting details
paragraph 3 – topic:
topic sentence
supporting details
3)conclusion
recap of the claim and main ideas; the lesson or message for readers to take away