Day 6

Imagery: Sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. May use terms related to the five

senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory imagery.

May be used with other figures of speech, especially metaphor and simile, to create a strong, unified sensory impression.

Warm Up:

How can music and literature bring about social change? Write some examples of injustices we have these days and pieces of music or literature that can inspire people to take action against it.

Link to Literature:

Historical Narratives are accounts of real-life historical experiences, written by either a person who experienced those events or someone who studied or observed them.

Historical Narratives page 70-71

Primary sources are materials written by people who were either participants in or observers of the events written about. Letters, diaries, journals, speeches, autobiographies, and interviews are all primary sources.

Primary sources offer valuable insights into the thinking and culture of a given time period.

Use these strategies to bring the information to life:Determine a document’s origin.Try to understand the perspective and motives of the writer.Note sensory details that depict people, places, and events. Identify customs, values, or conditions of the culture or time

period.

Primary Sources

Secondary sources are records of events written by people who were not directly involved in the events. Two typical examples of secondary sources are biographies and histories.

Secondary Sources

The slave narrative is an American literary genre that portrays the daily life of slaves as written by the slaves themselves after gaining their freedom.

Slavery 1800s

Slave Narrative

Page 82-83Create a timeline of

his life, from his capture as a slave to his writing of his narrative.

Portrays the culture shock of a newly captured African

Focuses criticism on slave traders, not slave owners

Includes religious and moral appeals against slavery

The Interesting narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)Like other 18th-

century slave narratives, his work

The Middle Passage c.1600 - 1800

The Middle Passage c.1600 - 1800

countenancesconsternationpestilentialcopiousscruplenominal

Defining Vocabulary in Equiano's Narrative

Review your Logical Fallacies that you have studied thus far.

AP Language Warm-Up:

Next week: Purchase Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.

Next Class: Prepare to present the Visual

Literacy Presentations.Chapters 1-3 of On Writing Well

Upcoming

Understanding Satire

The ability to recognize ironic tone, one of the chief elements in satire, is a sure test of intelligence and sophistication. Those who read only for literal meaning are apt to misinterpret irony. A writer’s ironic tone may seem unemotional and detached from the material, whereas he/she is more than likely disguising deeper feelings, or real outrage and moral indignation.

1. Irony

Verbal irony: A discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.

Dramatic irony: The audience knows something a character does not.

Irony of fate: A discrepancy between what is expected or hoped for and the actual outcome of events.

Socratic irony: Pretended ignorance in discussion (companion to the Socratic question).

Types of Irony

Hyperbole: exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect

Understatement: a statement that says less than is actually or literally true

Sarcasm: a critical, contemptuous statement expressed as verbal irony

Incongruity: the result of combining inappropriate or unfitting elements

In addition to “ironic,” some tone words that characterize satire are: facetious, mocking, flippant, indignant, vehement, and bitter.

Devices Used

This is the appearance or semblance of truth in literature, achieved when details, however far-fetched, give the appearance of truth and sweep the reader, for the moment at least, into an acceptance of them.

2. Verisimilitude

The organization of a satire may be carefully structured to build to a point or create suspense. It may also mimic the original in a type of satire called parody. In other words, the satirist, like all good writers, organizes in way that helps make his/her point.

3. Structure

Satirists may choose words that are deliberately shocking to the reader. They may also mimic or parody the work or person being satirized.

4. Diction

The primary target of satire is a problem the writer wants the audience to recognize and/or change. The issue may be social, political, or cultural.

5. Theme

The writer may pretend to be someone else, to be a type of person he/she is really not, or to have attitudes and beliefs he/she really does not hold.

6. Persona

Discussion Question: What is Swift’s overall purpose? Identify examples of appeals other than the classical appeals, such as appeals to thrift, economy, and patriotism. Explain the rhetorical strategy behind each example

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (pages 914-920)