RL5 Determining Word Meaning

RL5: Determining Word Meanings

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I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical, and deeply analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone, especially with fresh and engaging literature (Shakespeare, etc.).

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I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical, and analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning and tone, especially with fresh and engaging literature (Shakespeare, etc.).

2I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative and technical.

1I can determine the literal meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

1. What figurative language trick is being used?

2. What does the quote mean?3. What tone does the quote create?

How?

Antithesis: the balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences “with mirth in funeral and with dirge in

marriage”

Personification: giving human characteristics to non-human or inanimate things “The air bites…it is nipping” (1.4.1-2).

Metaphor: comparison made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. The rose walked into the ballroom.

Simile: same as above, but using “like” or “as” She looked like a rose in her red dress.

Pun: a word or phrase with two meanings “New study of obesity looks for larger

test group” “Kids make nutritious snacks”

Double Entendre: a pun in which the second meaning is naughty

Classical Allusion: references to people and places of Greek and Roman literature He was powerful like Zeus.

Allusion: references to historical event or another text Like Washington, he braved battle for a

good cause.

Parallel Construction: similar structure in a pair or series of words, phrases, or clauses. “The more we do, the more we can do”

(William Hazlitt)Anastrophe: out of order words

“Echoed the hills” versus “the hills echoed”