Do Now:
Set up Cornell Notes on the notebook paper provided. You
will be able to use the notes today to help you with your
study guide and study for the test!
Quick Write - How do you think you did on the writing CFA?
What was the writing prompt? Did you memorize your
graphic organizer? Did it help?
GET OUT YOUR ESSAY & GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Common writing facts
DICTION communicates the
author’s tone.
Words help us find the
speaker’s attitude.
Common Writing Facts
 Imagery creates the mood of a text.
 The pictures, sounds, smells, and textures that the
writer creates with words make the audience feel a
certain way.
 Mood is often created by the setting.
Common Writing Facts
 Figurative language emphasizes the theme
or message.
Metaphor, simile, personification,
hyperbole, and alliteration are all
common in good pieces of writing. Their
common idea supports the theme or
message.
Common Writing Facts
 Syntax supports the tone and the mood of a text.
 Punctuation emphasizes big ideas and feelings that the speaker wants the
audience to pay attention to.
Ellipses …
there is more information to be had, slows
down the text, big spaces of thought
(Parentheses)
a side note or bit of information only
for the audience to know
Italics
makes a word or phrase stand out for a specific reason
“Dialogue”
their heads when writing is in 3rd
was said
to tell you what a character is thinking in
person, OR indicate sarcasm, OR report what
CAPITAL LETTERS
important, indicate yelling
to make an idea
How to make a TEXT Connection on a
test or in ACCE:
 Text Inference – The writer didn’t straight out
say it, but you know it because of the clues the
writer sprinkled in the text.
 Thematic Statement/Message - What is it that
the writer is trying to tell you by writing this
text.
 Big Idea/General Concept – This takes the big
ideas from DIFLS and the Rhetorical Triangle
and applies them to the question. The previous
slides all provide big ideas and general concepts.
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg
San Francisco, California
• Golden Gate Bridge
• San Francisco is
known for its fogs that
come in quickly.
“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
by Emily Dickinson
• Many people try to have a private
life
• Celebrities struggle with this
• Michael Jackson tried to keep his
children and his failed nose job
hidden from the public eye.
“Is the Moon Tired?”
By Christina Rossetti
• The moon is often
personified in poetry as
being human and having
feelings.
• In Ancient Greek and
Roman religion, there was
a moon goddess called
Diana or Artemis.
• What kinds of feelings do
you think the moon would
have?
• What are other words for
the moon?
“Message from a Caterpillar” by Lillian Moore
• Metamorphosis – when a caterpillar undergoes a change to become
a butterfly
• People undergo changes too.
• Sometimes people are compared to butterflies. Why?