Do Now
 On
your Do Now sheet, explain how writers
define a concept by example and how writers
define a concept by function.
Definition By
Negation
8th Grade Language Arts
Definition by Negation
 Paragraphs
using the negation strategy explain
what something is by showing what it is not
 A non-example should be based on what
someone else would say is an example
 If no one would disagree with the negation, it is
ineffective
Together…
 Read
through the following excerpts and decide
if it using definition by function, example and/or
negation.
From Creative Nonfiction
by Philip Gerard
 “It’s
always seemed odd to me that nonfiction is
defined, not by what it is, but by what it is not. It
is not fiction. But then again, it is
also not poetry, or technical writing or libretto.
It’s like defining classical music as nonjazz.”
Answer: Definition by Negation
From The Bible, Corinthians Book I
 “Love
is patient and kind; love does not envy or
boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist
on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it
does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with
the truth. Love bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love
never ends.”
Answer: Negation and Function
From “Sonnet 116”
by William Shakespeare
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle’s compass come:
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
Answer: Function and Negation
On your own…
 Read
“Where I Find My Heroes” on page 63 of
Springboard.
 While reading, identify different definition
strategies used by marking the text.
Homework
 Using
your lists on heroism, write one paragraph
using definition by negation.