+ Bellringer What is the overall topic of your essay? Your THEME 1. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

+ Bellringer

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What is the overall topic of your essay? Your THEME

2.

Name the five types of paragraphs that should make up your essay. Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, 2, 3, Conclusion

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What are the main ideas of each of your body paragraphs? Your three literary devices – Example: Mood/Tone/Imagery, Simile/Foreshadowing/Setting, Hyperbole/Point of View/Mood.

+ Agenda

 Bellringer (5)  Book Talks (30)  Analytical Essay (50)

 Outline  Using evidence well: How do we include quotations in body

paragraphs?

 Closure (5)

+ Analytical Essay: Prompt

Choose from the literary devices we have discussed in class so far (including: any of our figurative language elements; mood; tone; point of view; setting; foreshadowing) and discuss how they contribute to one of the following themes:

 revenge/injustice vs. justice  relationships vs. isolation  reason vs. madness/imagination

+ What is a thesis?

 A thesis is your claim / assertion. It is what you are proving

to me!

 Your thesis must list the overall topic of your essay and the

topic of each body paragraph.

+ Practice

 What are three things that should be changed about this

thesis? The poem was full of suspense, which made it really

• good. There was lots of figurative language in the poem.

How to fix:

 Take out opinion words: “which made it really good.”  Take out “full of suspense”: It doesn’t relate to the prompt.  Add in an explicit reference to the theme.  List your literary devices by name, not just “lots of figurative

language.”

+ Using Evidence: Quotes 101

Body Paragraph

1.

Topic Sentence

2.

EVIDENCE Introduce it: For example, in the fourth stanza, Noyes writes, Quote it: “And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened.” Explain it: In this quotation, Noyes uses the word “dark” and the word “creaked” to appeal to the reader’s visual and auditory senses. By using this imagery, he creates a picture in the reader’s mind of a dark setting where the only sound is the eerie creak of a stable door. Although the highwayman and Bess may assume that the door is blowing in the wind, the reader knows that Tim, who is eavesdropping, is the

• ne moving the door. By creating this image, Noyes paints a picture of a character who is alone and who is

isolated from the one person with whom he desires to be in a relationship.

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Concluding Sentence

Focus on specific words/phrases. Connect quotation to the literary device that is your paragraph’s main idea. Connect quotation and literary device to the theme. Use a comma before quotation.

+ Using Evidence: Quotes 101

To begin, one way that Noyes evokes the theme of relationships and isolation is by including strong imagery. For example, in the fourth stanza, Noyes writes, “And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened.” In this quotation, Noyes uses the word “dark” and the word “creaked” to appeal to the reader’s visual and auditory senses. By using this imagery, he creates a picture in the reader’s mind of a dark setting where the only sound is the eerie creak of a stable door. Although the highwayman and Bess may assume that the door is blowing in the wind, the reader knows that Tim, who is eavesdropping, is the one moving the door. By creating this image, Noyes paints a picture of a character who is alone and who is isolated from the one person with whom he desires to be in a relationship. Noyes, therefore, uses imagery to point the reader to the theme of relationships and isolation.

+ Closure

What are three things you would change about the following sentence? “The wind was a torrent of darkness is a quote from the highwayman that shows a sad mood. How to fix:

 You need a pair of quotation marks around quoted text.  Capitalize and put quotes around the text’s title: “The Highwayman”  Every quotation needs an introduction: For example, the author writes

in stanza two, “The wind…”

 Don’t try to combine the quotation and its explanation. First, introduce

and write your quotation. Then, in a new sentence, begin your explanation.