ELT+Assignments

Essential Literary Terms  //Our study of ELT will provide a solid foundation of literary terms you have previously studied as well as an introduction to literary terms unknown to you. Being able to recall the definition of an element is fine and dandy, but being able to recognize that element in a work AND analyze its emotional impact and intellectual effect is quite another achievement altogether…so let’s get started, shall we? //  Learning Strategies Individual homework Pair/share in class Class correction and clarification Q&A Application of knowledge throughout year with literary texts  Preface Exercises: “Literary Forms” section do ODD numbers (even numbers done during summer) __Structure and Point of View __ Traditional Plot Structure: draw and label the plot curve with the terms below: > Other terms: > **Flashback **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-events dramatized or acted out that occurred prior to the opening scene or chapter. It may take the form of a character’s memory, narration, or dream sequences. > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Foreshadowing **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-preparation (hints and clues) for later events in the plot, achieved by establishing mood or atmosphere or revealing a fundamental and decisive character trait. Physical objects may also intimate or suggest future events. > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Setting **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-the background of the action; it is of various importance in works of literature. Setting may include the geographical location, the daily manner of living, the epoch or season or time of day, the atmosphere, and the general environment, including religious, mental, moral, social, and/ or emotional conditions and their symbolic meanings. > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Stream of Consciousness **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-a literary technique that presents the continuous flow of images, ideas, thoughts, and feelings of a character as they run through his or her mind. Also known as interior monologue which presents emotional experiences on a non-verbalized level, with images representing sensations or emotions; this style may seem random, illogical, even confusing. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">In class activities > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Mini quiz overhead “Ant and Grasshopper” identify POV > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Harry and Alice activity—identify POV and effectiveness in telling the story > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“Who is the speaker?” (poem OH) > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Syntax __ > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">In class activities > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> “Tickets, please” in class activity sample analysis of syntax > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Hardy and Dickens passages-in class analyze syntax and its effect on tone, characterization > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Characterization __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Count off 1-10 for the 4th assignment below ** > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">We call the main character the **protagonist**, and the oppositional figure the **antagonist**. Character traits are revealed in various ways. Direct characterization may be offered through a narrator’s description of himself/herself or of another character. Indirect characterization is revealed by what the character says and how she says it; what the character does, in initiating or responding to action; and what others reveal about the character through verbal and non-verbal responses. The reader should look for evidence of motivation to explain why the characters behave as they do. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Figurative Language __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Figurative Language **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> includes simile, metaphor, personification, pathetic fallacy, synecdoche, metonymy, irony, hyperbole, understatement, paradox, oxymoron, litotes, periphrasis, pun, apostrophe, rhetorical question, anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">In class activities > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Fun similes OH, George Carlin, Periphrasis HO > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Rhetorical Strategies __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Count off 1-7 for last bullet point exercise ** > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Rhetorical Strategies **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> include diction/connotations, allusion, analogy, imagery, symbolism, atmosphere (aka tone or mood), repetition, selection and order of details > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">In class activities > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Class poem analysis: symbolism in Hardy’s “Neutral Tones” <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'"> > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Sound Devices __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Sound Devices **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> include rhyme, alliteration, consonance (aka internal alliteration), assonance, and onomatopoeia. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Theme __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Theme **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> is often confused with a topic. Theme is a significant insight or “message” that we glean from our experience with the text and is stated as a complete thought, whereas a topic is a word or phrase which presents a category rather than any enlightenment or understanding. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">For example, the topic of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel //All Quiet on the Western Front// is WWI; a theme of this same novel is that war graphically and mercilessly disillusions those young men who embark upon it with heads filled with visions of glory and heroism. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 154, 155 > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the short story //A Summer’s Reading// by Bernard Malamud, and answer the questions accompanying it > __<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Tone & Satire __ > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Count off 1-8 for 3rd assignment ** > **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Tone **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> of voice enables us to easily recognize emotion and attitude. **Tone** in literature can be more subtle and challenging to identify. Readers need to look at diction and connotations, selection and order of details, as well as a myriad of other literary elements that contribute to the work as a whole. **Satire** is a form of writing that makes fun of societal conventions, ideas, behaviors with the intent of improvement and change. Satire can be harsh and biting (Juvenalian) or gentle and amused (Horatian) in tone. > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">Assignments <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'">In class activities > <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Note <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">When describing tone, try to use the format: adverb ending with “ly” + adjective > <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"> Ø  //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'">Examples //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">: scathingly sarcastic mildly amused comically hyperbolic achingly melancholy
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Plot **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-The large, controlling frame of a story or play, including the pattern of events and the relationships among those events. Aristotle described an ideal plot as “unity of action marked by causality and inevitability.” Plots may be simple or complex, single or multiple. A subplot is a separate strand of events related in some way to the main plot.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Exposition **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-beginning of a story wherein mood and setting are established, characters and their relationships to each other are introduced, and prior actions/events are revealed.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Rising Action **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-the complications and conflicts that lead to a plot’s climax.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Conflict **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-the struggle of two opposing forces providing interest, suspense, and tension in a plot. Conflict may be internal or external. The protagonist may be in conflict with nature, a human antagonist, society, or him/herself.
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Climax **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-the point of highest interest in a story which impacts the story’s ultimate direction and outcome as well as elicits the greatest emotional response from the reader; a reversal of action from rising to falling; also called the crisis or turning point
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Denouement **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">-from the French for “untying the knot.” This is the final unraveling of the plot wherein the events that follow the plot’s climax provide the solution, explanation, or outcome. Also called **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">resolution **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">or falling action.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read //Appointment in Samarra// by W. Somerset Maugham. Using different colored pencils, highlite the exposition, rising action, conflict, climax and denouement.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 112-122 and do ODD numbers on pages 122-125.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 150-152 on setting and do the ODD numbers on pages 152-154.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 167-178 concerning structure, including in medias res, narrative pace, parenthetical observation, subplot, and shift in style; do ODD numbers on pages 178-183; sections IV and V will count as __extra credit.__
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the short story //A Rose For Emily// by William Faulkner, and answer the questions accompanying it.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 184-197 and do ALL exercises __except Part III on page 196-97__.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 125-127 and do exercise III on pages 127-129.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 129-143.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate ELE pages 102-104 and do ex II #s 1-3 on pages 108-09 on epiphany.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read through the literary excerpts presented on pages 144-149 regarding dialogue. Complete your assigned question.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the short stories //The// //Catbird Seat// and //The Secret Life of Walter Mitty// by James Thurber, and //Counterparts// by James Joyce, and answer the questions accompanying them.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Do ODD numbers on pages 51-54; extended examples of irony #s 1 and 2 will be extra credit.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate the chapter on Irony from __How To Read Literature Like a Professor__.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the short stories //August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains// and //All Summer in a Day// by Ray Bradbury. Use colored pencils to highlite and label examples of figurative language. Also, briefly note what __emotional impact__ these devices had on you as a reader.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the chapter on Symbolism from from __How To Read Literature Like a Professor__
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 68-102 through the section called “selection and order of details,” and do ALL exercises on pages 78-82, 92-96 (skip IIb on page 94 and skip page 97).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Do your assigned number from pages 104-108 #s 1-7 in your assigned groups.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 210-215. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 217-225 and ALL exercises 1-10 on pages 223-224; skip Part ll on pages 224-5.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Discuss cleaner, clearer definitions of alliteration, consonance, and onomatopoeia.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 21-31 and do the ODD numbers.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read the satirical piece called //A Modest Proposal// by Jonathan Swift and answer the questions with it.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read & annotate pages 156-166 on tone and do all your assigned question of the 8. Warning: F*bomb on page 166. Censor your book’s passage with a black pen if you wish.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Class discussion of Part lll on page 166.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Paint chips activity to identify nuances of tone
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Read and analyze tone in the following poems: //Musee de Beaux Arts, In Memorium A.H.H.//
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">If time, tone paragraphs activity-identify tone in various short passages.