Setting

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Setting Figurative Language
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Va Va Va Voom Vivid Verbs

• Words are all an author can use to create images
  events in the readers mind.
• Verbs are especially useful because they help the
  reader to picture the action.
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Examples

• Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself
  against the parapet of the roof.
• Than taking out his field dressing, he ripped
  open the packet with his knife.
• Why is the 1st ex. more vivid than simple writing
  a bullet hit the parapet of the roof?
• What does ripped in the 2nd ex. Tell you about
  the state of the snipers mind?

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Points to Remember

• Setting The background against which a story
  takes place.
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Points to Remember

• Setting The background against which a story
  takes place
• 2. Setting is often conveyed by appealing to the
  5 senses (i.e. sight, smell, touch, taste, and
  hearing)

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• I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the
  darkness and storm increased every minute, and
  the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my
  head. It was echoed from the Juras and the Alps
  of Savoy vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my
  eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear
  like a vast sheet of fire then for an instant
  everything seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the
  eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.

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Forest
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Points to Remember

• Setting The background against which a story
  takes place
• 2. Setting is often conveyed by appealing to
  the 5 senses (i.e. sight, smell, touch, taste,
  and hearing)
• 3. Setting also includes such factors as
  geographical location, placement of physical
  objects, and the time period in which the action
  occurs.

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Points to Remember

• Setting The background against which a story
  takes place
• Setting is often conveyed by appealing to the 5
  senses (i.e. sight, smell, touch, taste, and
  hearing)
• Setting also includes such factors as
  geographical location, placement of physical
  objects, and the time period in which the action
  occurs.
• The emotional environment of characters can also
  be used to analyze setting (religious, social,
  political, etc.)

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Point-Proof-Comment

• Point Make an assertion that you will defend.
• Proof Introduce a quotation(s) or an example(s)
  to help prove your point. The proof you provide
  should EXEMPLIFY the point you are trying to
  make.
• Note Dont use proof that is irrelevant.
• Comment Discuss how your quotation(s)/example(s)
  supports your point. Dont assume that your
  audience will understand.

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For example (sorry Leafs fans)

• Fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs are certifiably
  insane. According to Albert Einstein, the
  definition of insanity is doing the same thing
  over and over again and expecting different
  results. This definition applies to Leafs fans
  because most of them engage in the same rituals
  year after year believing that their expression
  of loyalty and dedication will one day bring
  about the end of the 42 year-old Stanley Cup
  drought. Not only do these fans shake the dust
  off of their old, tattered Maple Leafs jerseys
  every October and park themselves in front of
  their television sets with a sense of
  anticipation that this years team will be the
  one to do it, but they also continue to attend
  (and sell-out) games to show their support for a
  team that (to any sane individual) is clearly
  destined to finish among the bottom-dwellers of
  the league...

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Examples from The Sniper

• Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself
  against the parapet of the roof.
• Than taking out his field dressing, he ripped
  open the packet with his knife.
• Why is the 1st ex. more vivid than simple writing
  a bullet hit the parapet of the roof?
• What does ripped in the 2nd ex. Tell you about
  the state of the snipers mind?

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Figurative Language

• Refers to words, and groups of words that
  exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the
  component words. Figurative language may involve
  analogy to similar concepts or other contexts and
  may involve exaggerations. These alterations
  result in figures of speech.

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Figurative Languae Example

• The ground is thirsty.
• The word ground has literal meaning, but the
  ground is not alive and therefore neither needs
  to drink nor feels thirst.
• Readers immediately reject a literal
  interpretation and confidently interpret the
  words to mean The ground is dry.

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Imagery

• Refers to the forming of mental images, figures
  or likenesses of things. It is the use of
  language to represent actions, persons, objects
  and ideas descriptively. The key is to appeal to
  and stimulate specific senses, usually visual.

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Diction

• Refers to the writers distinctive vocabulary
  choice.