1. RL5 Determining Word Meaning

2. RL5: Determining Word Meanings 4 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.). 3 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.). 2 I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative and technical. 1 I can determine the literal meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

3. 1. What figurative language trick is being used? 2. What does the quote mean? 3. What tone does the quote create? How?

4.  Antithesis: the balancing of two contrasting ideas, words, phrases, or sentences  “with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage”

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

6.  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.

7.  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

8.  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.

9.  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”