English 10 A Unit 1 Pretest

There’s a resentful mood. There is personification, imagery, and figurative language.
Her mother’s house represents the attitude of her mother; the walls stood at attention, the air knew to hold its breath, the polished floor defied heel marks.

“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:”

allusion

There is a simile, imagery, visual, auditory, kinetic.

Metaphor – A direct comparison of two basically unlike human or nonhuman things.
Similes – A comparison using like, as, or than.
Their purpose is to create new surprising comparisons that deepen understanding.

Imagery – Words that appeal to the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.
when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounding by the smell of too old potato peels.
It is used to create a vivid impression on the reader’s mind.

Mood – the emotional response that a work of literature stimulates in the reader.

Theme – a central idea or message of a work of literature; the insight it offers into life

The subject of the poem is deer and the flight risk that they pose.

to create new and surprising comparisons and deepen understanding

an image that simultaneously represents itself and something else

enjambment

Apostrophe, Personification, and Assonance.

free verse

Both poems are written in free verse and use enjambment to enhance fluency and add emphasis. Both poems use metaphor or simile.

apostrophe

Millay uses words with strongly negative connotations in this poem about humanity’s inhumanity.

This poem uses vivid imagery and careful word choice to convey the beauty of autumn. Alliteration.

The girl believed that life is just a bowl of cherries.

This free-verse poem is metaphorical, comparing happiness to a germ that infects the people and spreads. enjambment and end-stopped lines. Alliteration. Assonance.

a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Purpose – explore Guinevere’s infidelity through the eyes of King Arthur.

Purpose – reveal the complexity of friendship and love.

tragedy

lyric poem

They use narrative elements to recount personal experience and development.

First, you need to determine the purpose behind writing something – is it to educate, to entertain, to scare?
After that, you think about the genre – what you are actually going to write about – is it going to be a horror story, a romance, a comedy, etc.
After that, you organize everything, think about what should go where, what comes first, etc. And in the end, you connect everything by adding details of your choice that are suitable for your story.

It uses narrative and poetic techniques.

Purpose – examine the story of King Arthur, specifically the relation between Arthur and Merlin.

Purpose – depict the relationship between Guenevere and Lancelot in a realistic way.

It uses narrative techniques (e.g., plot, characters, setting, and conflict).

The primary conflict in the passage is internal. She seems to be fighting her own temptation to make a tough decision to leave her home.

External Conflict:
1. Colomber appears
2. Colomber follows Stefano
Internal Conflict:
1. Stefano fears Colomber
2. Stefano fears death.

“It’s the fish that sailors fear above all others . . . .”

“It was a splendid sunny day, and the sea was calm.”

The irony is that the small non-living objects live for eternity but man that is strong but he dies.

The setting of the Colomber by Dino Buzzati manly took part at the sea.
Which means that there will be some sort of adventure theme in it
This story lasted for about 50 years.

antagonist

The Stefano had been running from the colomber for 50 years who he thought was trying to kill him but was actually trying to give him a pearl.

protagonist

One cannot escape what one fears.

Fact: “The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain.”
Opinion: “Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything.”

To present facts:
Descriptions of actual people, places, and events.
Actions/behavior of individuals.
Dialog of individuals.
To present opinions:
Author’s commentary/ statements of belief.
Author’s thoughts.

II and III

I and II

Fact: “Not Cry? We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside … Do you understand? …”
Opinion: “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever”

Supporting Details – Fact and Opinions (Text)
Key Ideas – summaries (Words that are about the Text)
Themes – statements (The message that the author is trying to tell us)

to insert at intervals

Fact: “He was a young Pole, who was smiling at us. He began to talk to us, and despite our weariness, we listened attentively.”
Opinion: “Those were the first human words.”

He has not received any awards or distinctions during his lifetime.

WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH!

F

Look at how the texts are organized then find differences and similarities in the middle put similarities and in the other two spots put differences.

“The Raven”

Both Poe and King use details that match their selected genre.

Poe wants to explain the writer’s process to an outside observer.
Because he wanted it to be particularly.
To inform readers of the situation.

Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates ethos by including references to numerous literary works.

to compare both similarities and differences between texts

claims of importance

King wants to explain how he became a “good writer” to a fellow writer.

details

Poe and King were born in the 1900s.

conflict . . . protagonist

I, II, and III

Both poems deal with adolescence but from different perspectives.

An author’s thoughts are used to indicate facts in a memoir.