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Title: Pre-AP Strategies in English The Five S Strategy for Passage Analysis


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Pre-AP Strategies in EnglishThe Five S Strategy
for Passage Analysis
  • Basic Terms for Passage Analysis
  • Crux-the essential part most important part
    puzzling, perplexing question
  • Dialogue-conversation, airing of views
    discussion
  • Diction-use of words emphasizes the care and
    skill with which they are chosen.
  • Figures of speech
  • Imagery-comparisons, descriptions, figures of
    speech that form mind pictures.
  • Irony-event which is the opposite of what would
    naturally be expected.
  • Meter
  • Mood-state of mind,prevailing atmosphere,
    emotion, climate
  • Motif-principal idea/feature motive, theme
    subject in lit.
  • Organization
  • Plot
  • Punctuation
  • Sentences
  • Sentence variety-variety of simple, compound and
    complex sentence patterns
  • Setting
  • Sound devices
  • Style
  • Syntax techniques

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Richard Cory
  • Whenever Richard Cory went down town
  • We people on the pavement looked at him
  • He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
  • Clean favored, and imperially slim.
  • And he was always quietly arrayed,
  • And he was always human when he talked
  • But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
  • Good-morning, and he glittered when he
  • walked.
  • And he was richyes, richer than a king,
  • And admirably schooled in every grace
  • In fine, we thought that he was everything
  • To make us wish that we were in his place.
  • So, on we worked, and waited for the light,
  • And went without the meat, and cursed the
  • bread

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300-Advanced English
  1. Copy the boldfaced definitions, (adding to what
    you have so we have common working definitions)
    onto the Basic Terms-Five S Passage Analysis.
    (Slide 1)
  2. On the back of this worksheet, copy directions
    for tonights homework. (Slide 2)
  3. Next, pick up the class copy 5 question worksheet
    and your summer reading notebook (Slide 3).
    Complete the 5 questions for your novel.

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Homework-August 20
  • Define
  • Meter-example that shows use of meter.
  • Plot-example that shows the exposition
    (attention-getter) and a paraphrase of climbing
    action from your story.
  • Punctuation-examples of when the author used
    dashes, italics or capital letters and
    elipses() give what you believe to be the
    authors reason for using
  • Setting-quote from the story that is an
    exceptional example of setting.
  • Style- example of authors style that you
    noticed (use of slang, use of dialogue, point of
    view was through the eyes of one character etc.)

5
Title_______________________________Author_______
_____


  1. What is the crux of your story?
  2. Write 5 examples of diction which show careful
    word choice by the author. (ex. Slang,
    descriptive, monosyllabic)
  3. Choose 3 examples of imagery emphasized by the
    author that awaken the senses or create a word
    picture.
  4. Write down one example of irony, an event which
    is the opposite of what the reader would
    naturally expect to happen.
  5. What is the theme of the story?
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