Monday, December 3, 2012

English 11 E

If you were away, borrow the notes as we started a new unit today. You can get a copy of the essay text from me.

Study the terms we went over so far:

1. Allusion
2. appealing to a higher authority
3. diction
4. empathy/sympathy
5. imagery
6. motherhood statements
7. parallelism
8. anecdote
9. hyperbole
10. reciprocals--supplying the opposite
11. sound devices: rhyme, alliteration, assonace, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, See the example of consonance in the Visser essay.
12. descriptive writing-- describing the football players' locker room behaviour--eating the circles out of their sandwiches (implying they do not eat their crusts which implies what? )