Bellringers-Bell work for 1st Quarter I designed this document to help my AP Literature students gain a working knowledge of the basic skills needed in literary analysis. While they were created to work as bell work for the AP classroom, they will also work with other literary analysis based classrooms particularly those that are Advanced or Pre-AP. The bell work is created for the 2017-2018 first quarter calendar for my school district but can be adapted to fit any calendar. If you find that you need additional days, let me know and I will add and send the document to you. Enjoy using it in your classroom. Thanks, Karin ©April 2017 Tuesday Monday Brazen Definition: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Part of Speech: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Use correctly in a complex sentence: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Famous Inspiration ions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself from asking a question or making a comment because you fear it will sound obvious or unsophisticated or lame or stupid. Because critical reading and prose fiction are such hard, weird things to try to study, a stupid-seeming comment or question can end up being valuable or --David Foster Wallace Explain what you think he means? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Wednesday Consider: kindled the Poems and Sketches Analysis: What kind of flames does kindled imply? How does this verb suit the purpose of the sentence? Would the sentence be strengthened or weakened by changing the sun broke weakly through to the sun burst through? Explain the effect this change would have on the use of the verb kindled. Apply: Brainstorm a list of action verbs that demonstrate the effects of sunlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday Definitions: Literary Elements ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Friday Analyze the following quote. What figurative language do you see and why do you think the author used this language? How does it affect the meaning as a whole? tattered coat ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ Give a Literary Example: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ APOSTROPHE __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Something I learned this week (Explain): Tuesday Monday Suppliant Definition: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Part of Speech: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Use correctly in a complex sentence: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ."The Famous Inspiration ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic." Leslie Fiedler Explain what you think she means? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Words in Context: ________________________________ ________________________________ Wednesday Consider: My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up `by hand`. --Charles Dickens Analysis: What does the phrase reputation with herself imply? How does this adjective suit the purpose of the sentence? Would the sentence be strengthened or weakened by changing this phrase? Explain the effect this change would have if the author had used the adjective knowledge instead. Apply: Brainstorm a list of adjectives that create the sense of great worth in ones own mind. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday Definitions: Literary Elements ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Friday Analyze the following quote. What figurative language do you see and why do you think the author used this language? How does it affect the meaning as a whole? The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking . -Albert Einstein ________________________________________ __________________________________________ Give a Literary Example: __________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Antithesis __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Something I learned this week (Explain): Tuesday Monday Marauding Definition: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Part of Speech: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Use correctly in a complex sentence: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Famous Inspiration The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. --anonymous Explain what you think this means? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ How can you apply this to your life? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Wednesday The impact of poetry is so hard and direct that for the moment there is no other sensation except that of the poem itself. What profound depths we visit then how sudden and complete is our immersion! --Virginia Woolf Explain how the meaning of the passage is reinforced and clarified by the dash and exclamation point. ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday Definitions: Literary Elements ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Give a Literary Example: Friday Analyze the following quote. What figurative language do you see and why do you think the author used this language? How does it affect the meaning as a whole? "If you exercise your mind, George, it will get hungry just as your body does." ~ Little Men by Louisa May Alcott __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ Connotation __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Something I learned this week (Explain): Tuesday Monday Pecuniary Definition: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Part of Speech: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Use correctly in a complex sentence: ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Famous Inspiration Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can Napoleon Hill Explain what you think he means? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ How can you apply this to your life? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Wednesday Analyze the use of syntax and how it reinforces and clarifies the meaning of the sentences and passage. ALTHOUGH Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at nothing at nothing, simply. What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly by a feeling of bliss absolute bliss! as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe? . . . ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Thursday Definitions: Literary Elements ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Give a Literary Example: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Friday Analyze the following quote. What figurative language do you see and why do you think the author used this language? How does it affect the meaning as a whole? It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all Erewhon by Samuel Butler __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ Anthropomorphism __________________________________________ ________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Something I learned this week (Explain):
