Rhetorical Analysis Week 1

AP Lang & Comp Unit 1: Rhetorical AnalysisWeek 1: Argument, TSL, Narrative Mode

Warm Up: your fate card

On the card provided, please write your full name a name you prefer to be called (if different)

On the reverse, draw or write a symbol, graphic, image, quote, word, or prhase that represents you or is meaningful to you.

Rhetorical Analysis Week 1

8/19-8/23 Rhetorical Analysis

Objective Assignments HW

Mon Establish classroom norms and procedures

Warm Up (WU): Your fate card Syllabus & Course OverviewArgument Notes/ ReviewSeminar InstructionsRhetorical Modes & Procedures

Bring a Comp Book & index cards by Tues. Return signed syllabus by Fri. Review TSL for seminar. Bring TSL tomorrow

Tues Review summer work

WU: allegory, anecdote; alacrity, gesticulateArgument Notes/ Review“Chiaroscuro” exercises

Return signed syllabus by Fri. Review TSL for seminar.

Wed Analyze narrative essays

WU: antithesis, aphorism; privation, paucityArgument Notes“Me Talk Pretty One Day”

Return signed syllabus by Fri. Review TSL for seminar. Finish “Me Talk Pretty.”

Thurs

Edit analysis essay

WU: Global feedbackComputer Lab to edit analysis (due Mon. 8/26)

Return signed syllabus by Fri. Review TSL for seminar.

Fri WU: apostrophe; irateTSL Seminar

Edit essayTSL Take-home test due Wed 8/28

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Tues Vocab

Rhetorical Terms

Allegory

The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

Anecdote

A short account of an interesting or humorous incident, usually to support or prove a point.

Fancy Words

Alacrity 1. Cheerful willingness; eagerness.2. Speed or quickness

Gesticulate

To make gestures especially while speaking, as for emphasis.

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Surprise Rhetorical Term!

Chiaroscuro Chiaroscuro is a literary device that

displays the juxtaposition of light and shade. 

Also an art term—use of dark and light shading

With a partner, identify 4 examples of Hawthorne using chiaroscuro Check Hester’s emergence, descriptions

of town, introduction to Dimmesdale & Chillingworth: Ch. 1-3

Check the forest scene: Ch. 16-19

Light

Dark Meaning

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Wed. Vocab

Rhetorical TermsAntithesis

a. A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure, as in "Hee for God only, shee for God in him" (John Milton).b. The second and contrasting part of such a juxtaposition.

Aphorism

A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage.

Fancy Words

Privation

Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.

Paucity 1. Smallness of number; fewness.2. Scarcity; dearth: a paucity of natural resources.

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Fri. Vocab

Rhetorical Terms

Apostrophe

a digression from a discourse, esp an address to an imaginary or absent person or a personification

Fancy Words

Irate Extremely angry; enraged; characterized by anger: