Pre-AP English II: Othello Literary Devices Scavenger Hunt

If you did not finish in class, please complete the assignment on a separate sheet of paper. On Monday, attach it to the page you turned in during class.

Find examples of the these literary devices in Act II of Othello. Write them with proper citation, like this:

SPEAKER: Line with literary device (Act#.Scene#.Line#(s))

If you're using a digital copy without line numbers, write "digital copy" instead of Line#(s).


ALLITERATION


ALLUSION


ANAPHORA


APOSTROPHE


METAPHOR


PARADOX


PERSONIFICATION


SIMILE

Pre-AP English Classes: Test Preview

Tomorrow, Pre-AP English I and II classes will be taking an AP-style multiple choice test on the texts you are reading. You will need to know the sets of of literary devices we've been working on this semester.

Pre-AP English I
Bring your books tomorrow. You will be tested on Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird and will need to know the following literary devices:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Diction


• Hyperbole


• Metaphor


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

Pre-AP II
I will provide you with an excerpt of the novel. You will be tested on the following literary devices:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Anaphora


• Apostrophe


• Diction


• Foreshadowing


• Flashback


• Hyperbole


• Imagery


• Metaphor


• Metonymy


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

you will also need to know the three types of irony

• Verbal


• Dramatic


• Situational

Pre-AP English II: Literary Devices Test Preview

Tomorrow (10/31) you will have an exam on the following literary devices. You will need to be able to recognize examples of them and produce your own sentence-length examples, as well:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Anaphora


• Apostrophe


• Diction


• Foreshadowing


• Flashback


• Hyperbole


• Imagery


• Metaphor


• Metonymy


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

Be sure to bring your copy of Lord of the Flies with you, as you'll need it to understand the context of some examples and find examples of your own in the text.

Failing this test will result in your automatic assignment to Patriot Academy on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, and you will be unable to retest or submit corrections until you have attended a post-test tutorial.

English I (Pre-AP): Alchemist Part II Test Preview

Tomorrow in class you will have an AP-style multiple choice test based on pages 94-99 of The Alchemist (also pages vi-viii of the introduction). Please annotate the pages before the test.

You will be expected to know what goes on in the story as well as be able to identify or explain the following literary devices:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Diction


• Hyperbole


• Metaphor


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

All Pre-AP Classes: Literary Terms Six-Weeks' Test Preview

Tomorrow (9/29) you will take your exam for the first six-weeks' grading period. Please be prepared. In case you have forgotten, you will need to demonstrate your mastery of these literary devices by being able to recognize examples of them and produce your own sentence-length examples, as well:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Diction


• Hyperbole


• Metaphor


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

Additionally, Pre-AP II students are responsible for the following terms:

• Anaphora


• Apostrophe


• Foreshadowing


• Flashback


• Imagery


• Metonymy

Remember, failing this test will result in your automatic assignment to Patriot Academy on Friday Sept. 30th, and you will be unable to retest or submit corrections until you have attended a post-test tutorial.

All Pre-AP Classes: Preview for Literary Terms Test #2

On tomorrow's test you should be prepared -- again -- to demonstrate your knowledge of the following literary devices by being able to recognize examples of them and produce your own sentence-length examples, as well:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Diction


• Hyperbole


• Metaphor


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

Additionally, Pre-AP II students are responsible for the following terms:

• Anaphora


• Apostrophe


• Foreshadowing


• Flashback


• Imagery


• Metonymy

Remember, failing this test will result in your automatic assignment to Patriot Academy on Sept. 19th, and you will be unable to retest or submit corrections until you have attended a post-test tutorial.

Pre-AP English I & II: Literary Terms Preview

On tomorrow's test you should be prepared to demonstrate your knowledge of the following literary devices by being able to recognize examples of them and produce your own sentence-length examples, as well:

• Alliteration


• Allusion


• Diction


• Hyperbole


• Metaphor


• Onomatopoeia


• Oxymoron


• Paradox


• Personification


• Simile

Additionally, Pre-AP II students should be able to produce their own sample sentences utilizing the following devices:

• Anaphora


• Apostrophe


• Foreshadowing


• Flashback


• Imagery


• Metonymy

Remember, failing this test will result in your automatic assignment to Patriot Academy on Sept. 6th, and you will be unable to retest or submit corrections until you have attended a post-test tutorial.

All Pre-AP Classes: Literary Terms Presentations

Using the following presentation as both a rubric and a model, develop a PowerPoint-like presentation for the literary terms your grade-level is working on.



Both Pre-AP English I and II students will use the following 10 terms:

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Diction
• Hyperbole

In addition to those terms, Pre-AP English II students will include the following in their presentations:

• Anaphora
• Apostrophe
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Imagery
• Metonymy

Remember, if you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint, you may use other presentations like the free OpenOffice or online solutions like Google Docs. If you have a smartphone with a flashcard app, you may use that (term + definition on one side, example and illustration on the other). Digital files can be emailed to me as an attachment or delivered on a flashdrive.

If you have absolutely no way of doing this digitally, you may use "paper slides," but you really need to work on finding a long-term solution. Pre-AP II: As soon as the third six weeks, you'll need to be typing/word processing outside writing assignments.

English I (Pre-AP): Literary Devices in "Poetry"

In class we will be examining Pablo Neruda's "Poetry" to find the literary devices he used.

If you don't have your copy from class, print out another copy from this earlier blog post, then annotate it by underlining such things as:

• simile (a comparison using like or as),


• metaphor (a comparison NOT using like or as),


• alliteration (words close to each other beginning with the same sound),


• onomatopoeia (sound effects/sound imagery),


• personification (giving human attributes to non-human things),


• diction (words chosen because their meaning hold special significance),


• oxymoron (a two-word phrase like "jumbo shrimp" or "pretty ugly" that appears to contradict itself, but is true)


• paradox (a self-contradictory statement that nevertheless holds truth: "Socrates: The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "Chang-Tzu: Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.")


• hyperbole (extreme exaggeration)


• allusion (reference to a literary/historical character or event, for the purpose of drawing a comparison)


• etc.