1. Parallel Structure: Write down what is written in RED.
Parallel Structure - Words, phrases, and clauses should all be the same (parallel) when linked together in a list or connected with coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) or in a comparison.
Incorrect: The employer valued respect, honesty, and being on time in a worker.
Correct (list): The employer valued respect, honesty, and promptness in a worker.
Incorrect: James enjoys reading more than to write.
Correct (comparison): James enjoys reading more than writing.
Incorrect: I am allergic to the dog’s hair and how it smells.
Correct (conjunction): I am allergic to the dog’s hair and its smell.

2. Practice
An actor knows how to memorize his lines and getting into character.
Tell me where you were, what you were doing, and your reasons for doing it.
To donate money to the homeless shelter is the same as helping people stay warm in the winter.
The dictionary can be used to find these: word meanings, pronunciations, correct spellings, and looking up irregular verbs.
She told Jake to take out the trash, to mow the lawn, and be listening for the phone call

3. Practice (cont.) We were dirty, hungry, and without a penny.
My roommate liked to repair things around the house and his own cooking.
During the day, we went on long hikes, rowed around the lake, or just leisure time.
She returned to pay the rent and because she had left some of her things.
Two things that I found hard to learn as a freshman were to get enough sleep and trimming expenses.

4. Parallelism (in Poetry)
Refers to the repetition of sentence structure or word order to achieve a rhythmical effect.
Thoughts expressed are either repeated or contrasted.
Ex: The lazy and sluggish snake
Bit the merry and cheery little girl,
Making her all sad and mournful
Ex: What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

5. Poetry

6. Figurative Language
Descriptive writing using various literary devices.
Metaphor: comparison not using like or as
Life IS a box of chocolates.
Extended metaphor: continues throughout story/poem.
Simile: comparison using like or as.
Life is LIKE a box of chocolates.

7. Extended Metaphor: “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
  Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare.
But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now— For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

8. Figurative Language (cont.)
Personification: giving human-like qualities to inhuman things
Ex: The mean chair threw me out of it.
Onomatopoeia: words that represent actual sounds.
Ex: Snap! Bang! Pow!
Hyperbole: exaggeration to make a point.
Ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Sensory Language: writing that uses the five senses in order to write descriptively.
Ex: My mouth salivated at the scent of melting chocolate wafting from the kitchen.

9. Rhyme Scheme
The Lamb
By William Blake (1757–1827)
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
Little Lamb I'll tell thee, Little Lamb I'll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee.

10. Which detail from the poem supports the development of the theme
Which detail from the poem supports the development of the theme? Identify the theme. Include one example from the text to support your answer.
The author’s comparison of the lamb to Christ conveys the theme that everyone is born innocent. In the second stanza, the author describes the lamb’s creator: “He is meek and he is mild/ he became a little child.” Through comparing the child to Christ, he emphasizes the purity with which each person is born. By saying that children are born like Jesus, the author implies that every human possesses an innate innocence. The idea that all people come into the world with moral goodness is communicated in the relationship drawn between the child and Christ.

11. MSL Poem Practice Read poem & mark the rhyme scheme.
Annotate one sentence summary for every two stanzas.
Write the theme.
Complete the mock MSL multiple choice.
Answer the short answer beneath the sample paragraph we just completed together.