Bell Work

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Bell Work

• In your own words, what does coming of age
  mean?
• Write your definition at the bottom of pg. 6 in
  your Springboard Book.

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Voice

• A writers (or speakers) distinctive use of
  language.
• Can include diction, syntax, and imagery

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Diction

• Word choice intended to convey a certain effect.
• Example
• -You CAN clean your room!
• -You MIGHT want to clean your room!
• -You WILL clean your room!

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Syntax

• The arrangement of words and order of grammatical
  elements in a sentence
• The way a writer puts words together to make
  meaningful elements, such as phrases and clauses
• Greek prefix syntogether
• Rook taxarrangement or order
• Examples synthesis, synonym, taxidermy

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Imagery

• The words or phrases a writer uses to represent
  persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas
  descriptively by appealing to the senses

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Tone

• A writers or speakers attitude toward the
  subject. Tone is conveyed through the writers
  choice of words and details.
• Example Dont use that tone with me!

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Bell Work-Activity 1.3

• Write your full name at the top of a sheet of
  paper in your composition book. Write about your
  name. What does it mean? Why was that name
  chosen? Would you change your name if you could?

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Compound Complex Sentence

• A sentence that has two or more independent
  clauses and one or more subordinate clauses
• Example I was my parents first joy, and in
  their joy, they gave me the name that would haunt
  me for the rest of my life, Immaculeta Uzoma
  Achilike.

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Direct Quotation

• -represents a persons exact words
• -are enclosed in quotation marks
• -Example Then she asked me, Immaculeta Ulzama
  Achilike, do you know what your name means?

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Indirect Quotation

• Restates the general meaning of what a person
  said
• Quotation marks are not used
• Example She asked whether I knew what my name
  means.

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Bell Work 1.8

• What does the title Cut make you think about?
  What do you predict this text will be about?

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Protagonist

• -main character who initiates actions that move
  the plot along
• -Greek prefix proto-first
• -Greek root agon-contest or struggle
• -Example Prototype, protocol

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Simile

• -comparison of two different things or ideas
• -uses like or as

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Hyperbole

• -Deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous
  exaggeration.
• -Serious or comic relief

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Prose

• -ordinary written or spoken language
• -uses sentences and paragraphs
• -without deliberate or regular meter or rhyme
• -not poetry, drama or song

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Point of View

• -refers to the perspective from which a narrative
  is told
• -1st person-I
• -2nd person-You
• -3rd person-he, she

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Periodic Sentence

• One that makes sense fully only when the reader
  reaches the end of the sentence
• -emphasizes the idea in the main clause by making
  the reader wait for it
• -Example Then, as the last couple of weeks of
  school dragged on, the city of Paterson becoming
  a concrete oven, we labored like frantic Roman
  slaves to build a banquet hall.

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Cumulative Sentence

• One that makes complete sense if brought to close
  before its actual ending
• Example Her senator looked uncomfortable,
  glancing around at his buddies, perhaps waiting
  for the ridicule that he would surely get in the
  locker room later.

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Balanced Sentence

• -ideas of similar weight are expressed in similar
  grammatical structures or lengths.
• Example I read and understood Camus statement
  about the subject if love were easy, life would
  be too simple.

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Bandwagon

• Advertisers make it seem as if everyone is buying
  this product, so you better buy too
• The best car of the year is hereall your
  friends and neighbors are driving one
• How does this make you feel if you dont own the
  car?

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Avant-garde

• The reverse of bandwagon
• Makes the product seem so new, youll want to be
  the first to own it
• Example ???

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Testimonials

• Celebrities used to endorse products
• Pay Attention-sometimes the celebrity never says
  they use the product

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Transfer

• Pay attention to the background
• Transfers what is important to all to the ad
• Example politicians and their families, flags,
  etc.

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Bell Work

• Silently re-read page 73 in your Springboard
  book. Highlight important information while you
  read.

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Rhetorical Appeals

• Emotional, ethical, and logical appeals used to
  try to persuade an audience to agree with the
  writer or speaker.
• -Pathos, Ethos, Logos

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Pathos

• Def appeals to the readers or listener's senses
  or emotions
• Root word path which means suffering
• Example pathetic , empathy, sympathy

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Ethos

• Focuses on the character or qualifications of the
  speaker.
• Appeals to someones ethics.

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Logos

• Attempt to persuade readers or listeners by
  leading them down the road of logic and causing
  them to come to their own conclusions.