ELA 11
January 22 and 23, 2014
ACT Prep
 Questions 7-10
Bell Ringer
 In your notebooks write down today’s date.
 Answer the following question
 Which of the following sentences does not contain
an allusion?
 A. Jennifer is as lovely as a rose.
 B. After she was told that the chocolate bar was like
forbidden fruit, she wanted it even more.
 C. The hill next to school looked like Mount Everest to
the small child.
 D. The food poisoning last week set off Hiroshima in my
stomach.
I. Imagery
A. Creating a picture in the reader’s mind..
1. Frequently use adjectives and adverbs.
2. Show, don’t tell.
B. Appeals to any of the five senses
1. sight, sound, touch, taste, smell
2. Also uses metaphor, simile, and personification.
Examples of imagery
 The following images might be used to describe
a stroll on a summer night:
 Sight - a full moon in a black sky
Sound - the chirp of crickets
Taste - the tang of cold glass of lemonade
Touch - a warm breeze
Smell - freshly mowed grass
Practice- Find the images
T.S. Eliot – The Winter Evening Of withered leaves about
Settles Down
your feet
The winter evening settles
down
And newspapers from
vacant lots;
With smell of steaks in
passageways.
The showers beat
Six o’clock.
On broken blinds and
chimney-pots,
The burnt-out ends of smoky And at the corner of the
days.
street
And now a gusty shower
wraps
A lonely cab-horse steams
and stamps.
The grimy scraps
And then the lighting of the
lamps.
Create the images
 In your notebook create the following chart and
describe your perfect Saturday morning.
Sense
Sight
Taste
Touch
Smell
Hear
image
II. Diction
A. The author’s choice of words.
1. Diction depends on topic, purpose, and
occasion.
a. The topic often determines the
specificity and sophistication of diction.
2. The writer’s purpose—whether to
entertain, inform, or persuade—partly
determines diction.
3. Diction also depends on the occasion. As
with clothes, level of formality influences
word choices.
Diction
B. When studying diction, I must understand…
1. connotation (the meaning suggested by the
word)
2. denotation (the word’s literal meaning).
Practice
 Explain the differences in connotation among
the members of each of the following groups of
words:
1. Hurl, throw, chuck
2. Giggle, laugh, snicker, cackle
3. Mansion, dwelling, residence, house, home,
habitat
III. Tone vs. Mood
A. Tone: - the writer's attitude toward the
audience/Subject he or she is writing about
1. a writer's tone can be…
a. serious
b. sarcastic
c. objective
d. satirical
e. solemn
f. wicked, etc.
B. Mood - is the feeling a piece of literature evokes in
the reader. Mood is the overall feeling of the piece,
or passage.
Tone vs mood
 Tone Example 1A
 Tone Example 1B
 Tone Example 2A
 Tone Example 2B
 Tone Example 3A
 Tone Example 3B
The Yellow Wallpaper
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935
 Gilman was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1860.
Aspiring to be an artist, she briefly attended the
Rhode Island School of Design and married artist
Charles Stetson. After the birth of her daughter
she went into a deep and long-drawn
depression. The medical treatment available not
only failed to help her, it angered her. She was
told to limit herself to a quiet domestic life and
“never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again.”
From her anger sprang “The Yellow Wallpaper”
She ended her own life in 1935.