Daily Agenda

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Daily Agenda

• Puritan Beliefs and Writing
• Definitions Emotional Appeal, Tone, Imagery,
  and Figurative Language Metaphor, Simile,
  Hyperbole
• Read Sinners
• Locate Tone and Figurative Language
• Illustration Activity
• Homework Read revolutionary literature
  introductions

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Puritan Beliefs

• Many of the settlers in the 1600s were Puritans
• English Protestants who had sought to purify
  the Church of England
• Came to America to escape harsh persecution
• Believed they were chosen by God to be shining
  examples of Christianity and to make America the
  new Christian paradise
• Believed in predestination
• __
• __

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Puritan Writing

• Writing should be _____________and ______________
• No fiction
• Why?
• Often used relatable metaphors to make a point
• Sermons included
• Vivid ___________________
• Powerful language
• Strong moral lessons

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Jonathan Edwards

• ___________________ messages designed to
  persuade an audience by creating strong feelings
  rather than by providing facts and evidence.
• Done through tone, imagery, and figurative
  language.
• Includes using ________, _____________, and
  __________________ to persuade people to act.

• Believed religion should be rooted in
  _______________ rather than in ______________.
• Its no surprise then that his sermon is full of
  _____________________________________.

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• Tone
• Ex brusque, friendly, teasing, respectful,
  angry, amused, etc.
• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I
  assume you shall assume.

• Imagery

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Locate imagery

• I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray,
• Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meager
  sheaves
• That spring, briefer than apple-blossoms breath,
• Summer, so much too beautiful to stay,
• Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,
• And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.
• Elinor Wylies Puritan Sonnet

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Figurative Language

• Simile
• Here and there his brown skin hung in strips
  like ancient wallpaper.
• Metaphor
• Whitman called grass the beautiful, uncut hair
  of graves

• Hyperbole
• Im so hungry I could die!
• I slept for, like, a thousand hours!
• My love should grow vaster than empires, and
  more slow Two hundred years to adore each
  breast but thirty thousand to the rest

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As we read

• Create a color illustration that represents the
  example of figurative language you chose.
• On the back of your drawing
• Pick one sensory image your figurative language
  evokes
• Find and record one hyperbole.
• When youre finished, turn it in with your name
  on the back.

• Try to determine what the tone of Sinners is.
  Raise your hand and state it as soon as you have
  it.
• Choose one example of a metaphor or simile.
• Pick your favorite or the one that creates the
  most powerful imagery
• Record the metaphor or simile, with the page
  number, on a sheet of drawing paper.

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Homework

• Bring your book to class next time.
• Read the following
• From Colony to Country p. 19-20
• Writers of the Revolution p. 26-27
• Intro to Speech in the Virginia Convention p.
  224-225