AP Analysis 2.notebook AP Analysis AP Analysis Essay This information comes primarily from 5 Steps Ch. 5 & 8 Take notes; we will apply these to your diagnostic essay. Grade:«grade» Subject:«subject» Date:«date» There will be a clicker comprehension quiz throughout this presentation. Try to answer the questions without using your notes. Jan 12 11:49 AM Jan 12 8:26 AM The AP Analysis Essay asks you to: 1. Read and understand a challenging text 2. Apply knowledge of rhetorical strategies and stylistic elements to the analysis of language in the text 3. Communicate your written analysis in a manner reflective of your level of critical thinking p. 69 Types of prompts: Analyze > author's view > rhetorical devices > stylistic elements > author's tone > author's purpose > how an author recreates an experience > how an author presents him or herself Compare/contrast two passages' style/purpose/tone Discuss the intended/probable effect Jan 12 8:26 AM Jan 12 8:38 AM p. 70 Timing and Planning 1 3 min. reading and working the prompt 5 min. reading and making marginal notes > Try to isolate two references that strike you these may give you your opening and closing 10 min. preparing to write > Highlighting > Marginal Mapping > Charts or Key word/one word/line number outlining 20 min. writing 3 min. proofreading 1 How much of your 40 minutes do they recommend you spend actually writing the essay? 10 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes 40 minutes Turn your notes over for a clicker question... Jan 12 9:07 AM Jan 12 10:07 AM 1
AP Analysis 2.notebook Step 1: Attack the prompt 1. marginally note the time you should be finished with this essay. 2. Circle, box, or underline key terms in the prompt. 3. Time yourself and do this with the handout now The following paragraphs are from the opening of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. After carefully reading the excerpt, write a well organized essay in which you characterize Capote's view of Holcomb, Kansas, and analyze how Capote conveys this view. Your analysis may consider such stylistic elements as diction, imagery, syntax, structure, tone, and selection of detail. Prompt Exercise Jan 12 9:45 AM Jan 12 9:53 AM The following paragraphs are from the opening of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. After carefully reading the excerpt, write a well organized essay in which you characterize Capote's view of Holcomb, Kansas, and analyze how Capote conveys this view. Your analysis may consider such stylistic elements as diction, imagery, syntax, structure, tone, and selection of detail. Before we proceed with Step Two (Attacking the passage), let's discuss style... subject matter selection of detail point of view diction figurative language / imagery tone syntax organization You can tell one author from another based on their style. Jan 12 9:53 AM Jan 12 10:15 AM 2 All of the following are elements of style EXCEPT selection of detail Subject Matter & Selection of Detail Authors purposefully choose their subject and the details. diction figurative language mood syntax Jan 12 2:08 PM 2
AP Analysis 2.notebook Organization the way in which a writer presents ideas to the reader chronological spatial specific to general general to specific least to most important most to least important flashback or fast forward contrast/comparison cause/effect the vantage point of the narration; the method of presentation first person second person (rare) third person objective third person omniscient stream of consciousness chorus stage manager interior monologue consider the passage from In Cold Blood which of these apply to Capote's organization? first person the narrator is the story's protagonist second person the reader is the story's protagonist I went to the store. You went to the store. third person objective the narrator is an onlooker reporting the story She went to the store. third person omniscient the narrator reports the story and provides information that the character(s) is unaware of. She went to the store unaware that it would be her last shopping trip. 3
AP Analysis 2.notebook stream of consciousness places the reader in the (randomly tangential) mind of the narrator I don't know why I am going to the grocery store. Why do I always have to go to the store? I could be home reading a book. Jay would stay home and read a book. chorus Ancient Greek plays employ a chorus as a narrative device. The chorus could take the role of a character, an assembly, the voice of the playwright, the audience, or an omniscient forecaster. stage manager utilizes a character who comments omnisciently interior monologue reflects the inner thoughts of a character e.g. The Glass Menagerie Our Town (like stream of c. but not the narrator) Turn over your notes for a quick clicker quiz. 3 Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk. He leaned against the bar of the Old Home Sample Room, the most gilded and urbane saloon in Cato, Missouri, and requested the bartender to join him in "The Good Old Summer time," the waltz of the day. 4 I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not. Jewel knows who he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours... William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Jan 12 12:02 PM Jan 12 12:04 PM 4
AP Analysis 2.notebook 5 You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy. Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City 6 Her First Name was India she was never able to get used to it. It seemed to her that her parents must have been thinking of someone else when they named her. Or were they hoping for another sort of daughter? As a child she was often on the point of inquiring, but time passed, and she never did. Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge Jan 12 11:55 AM Jan 12 11:56 AM 7 Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield Diction a.k.a. "word choice," diction refers to the deliberate selection of words to further the author's purpose Diction is choosing the right word for the job, and considers the denotative, connotative, and symbolic meanings of a word or phrase. The evening invaded the street. James Joyce, "Eveline" Jan 12 12:00 PM Diction Diction Diction Exercise Diction Exercise Read the bare bones paragraph (1) and the actual paragraph Kate Chopin included in "The Story of an Hour" (2). Circle, underline, or box the word choices in #2 that transform the tone of the passage. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister s arms. When the storm had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister s arms. When the storm had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. negation contrast metaphor additional diction 5
AP Analysis 2.notebook Figurative Language & Imagery Imagery is the written creation of sensory experience achieved through the use of figurative language. Figurative Language & Imagery poetic Figurative Language includes: analogy sensory description poetic devices > metaphor > simile > hyperbole > onomatopoeia > personification > oxymoron > metonymy > synecdoche > alliteration > assonance > consonance Figurative Language & Imagery Exercise 8 even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road... Try using a chart to identify the types of figurative language in the paragraph from Herman Melville's "Nantucket. Example: And thus have these Naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant hill in the sea... sensory description metaphor simile hyperbole alliteration Jan 12 12:15 PM 9 parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland sensory description metaphor simile hyperbole alliteration 10 There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. sensory description metaphor simile hyperbole alliteration Jan 12 2:05 PM Jan 12 2:06 PM 6
AP Analysis 2.notebook Syntax Syntax is the grammatical structure of sentences. phrase a small group of words forming a conceptual unit (noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase) clause a group of words containing a subject and predicate Syntax Sentence Types declarative states a fact or argument It is raining. interrogative asks a question Do you have an umbrella? imperative commands or requests Fetch me an umbrella. exclamatory expresses excitement or emotion You broke my umbrella! Bell Ringer: Get out your style notes. Take five minutes to write questions and summaries for the pages you have so far. Next: finish notes, discussion questions, quick activity, homework? Syntax Sentence Types simple consists of one independent clause I love simple sentences. Being an English teacher with a penchant for syntactic complexity, I love simple sentences. compound contains two or more IC I love three day weekends, and this is a three day weekend. complex 1 IC and 1+ DC Because life is complex, we need complex sentences. compound complex 2+ IC and 1+ DC I'm weeping because you don't take me seriously, so please stop laughing right now. Jan 21 8:23 AM Syntax also includes... Syntax punctuation Exercise spelling paragraphing It struck eight. Bella waited. Nobody came. She sat down on a gilt chair at the head of the stairs, looked steadily before her with her blank, blue eyes. In the hall, in the cloakroom, in the supper room, the hired footmen looked at one another with knowing winks. What does the old girl expect? No one ll have finished dinner before ten. Read the passage and answer the questions. 7
AP Analysis 2.notebook What details from the Clutter's final moments does Capote include that would have been impossible for him to know? Capote switches back and forth between descriptions of the family and the killers. How does the tone change each time? Look at the bottom of page 37. Perry is measuring cord to tie up and kill as many as twelve people. What is the tone? In the next scene, Kenyon is working on a wedding present for his sister. What is the tone? How does this illustrate Capote's purpose? If we assume Capote's purpose is to dramatize a work of nonfiction, what "proof" do we have to support that claim? Who was his intended audience? What kind of tone do they expect to see in a book about a murdered family from Kansas? What do you think they expect to hear about the killers, Dick and Perry? What do you think they will expect to hear about the Clutter family? The town? 8
AP Analysis 2.notebook If you were writing this, what tone would you think appropriate? What diction would you consider? Fictional T Chart Non fictional Jan 21 8:37 AM Homework: Persons Unknown Compare stylistic differences between descriptions of Dick and Perry. Due tomorrow. Jan 21 8:49 AM 9