Welcome Back!
How did you spend your holiday break? Please share (briefly) what you
did over break with the class.
Remainder of Semester
• Study of poetry
• Non-Honors Classes
• Newspaper Project – in class
• Honors Classes
• Theme Study Project – in class
• Submit revisions of Theme Essay and Rhetorical Analysis if you
wish
• Hard copy of Theme Essay (please include original with rubric)
• Rhetorical Analysis must be submitted online to turnitin.com
• All make-up/late work for second quarter due Jan. 16th
• Final exam will consist of Unit 1 (short stories) and Unit 2 (To Kill a
Mockingbird) – start studying now
Figurative Language Review
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Definitions
• Personification - When a non-human subject is given human
characteristics.
• Simile – A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between
two unlike subjects using either like or as.
• Metaphor – Something in a literary work described as though it
were something else.
• Hyperbole – An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.
TKAM Examples
• Read the quotes from To Kill A Mockingbird
• Each is an example of figurative language
• Identify the type of figurative language
“Ladies bathed before noon, after three-o’clock
naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with
frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.”
• simile
“The back porch was bathed in moonlight, and
the shadow, crisp as toast, moved across the
porch toward Jem.”
• personification
“Your name’s longer’n you are. Bet it’s a foot
longer.”
• hyperbole
“The Radley Place fascinated Dill. In spite of our
warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon
draws water, but drew him no nearer than the lightpole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley
gate.”
• simile
“Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just
above my eye level, winking at me in the
afternoon sun.”
• personification
“Jem’s white shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a
small ghost dancing away to escape the coming
morning.”
• simile
“Zeebo cleared his throat and read in a voice like
the rumble of distant artillery.”
• simile
“As a result the town remained the same size for
a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of
cotton fields and timberland.”
• metaphor
“Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb
like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of
Jem and me.”
• simile
“Perhaps Atticus was right, but the events of the
summer hung over us like smoke in a closed
room.”
• simile
African American Poets
Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Maya Angelou
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
• Born in Dayton, Ohio
• Child of former slaves
• Widely recognized as the first
African American poet of
national stature
• Early pioneer of the Harlem
Renaissance – cultural
movement of the 1920s known
as the “New Negro Movement”
“We Wear the Mask” - Dunbar
• Poem - Follow along with the reading with the handout in
front of you
• What is the poem about?
• What is the purpose of a mask? Why would Dunbar use this as an
object of his poem?
Activity:
• Discuss the big ideas of the poem as a class
• Be prepared to share your responses with the class
• Analyze the poem (in detail) in small groups of 3
Maya Angelou (1928-present)
• Born in Missouri
• Draws on her own
experience, exploring the
problems of poverty,
racism, and sexism
• Best known for her series
of seven autobiographies
• Active in the Civil Rights
movement
• Performed at President
Clinton’s inaugural
ceremony
“The Mask” – Angelou
• Adaptation of Dunbar’s original
• “The Mask”
• What similarities do you notice between the two mask poems?
• How do these poems relate to our reading of To Kill a Mockingbird?