❧The Big 5

Diction, Details, Imagery, Figurative Language, Syntax

❧❧ A writer’s or speaker’s choice of words.

❧ Denotation: the literal definition of a word; many words have more than one denotative meaning.

❧ He is a HARD teacher.

❧ Connotation: the emotions and associations created by a word.

❧ Positive, Negative, and Neutral connotations.

❧ Practice

Diction

❧❧ The who, what, when, where, why of a story, and

how they contribute to tone and construction of meaning.

Read the excerpt in your packet.

❧ When you read this, how are you supposed to feel? (mood)

❧ What are some details that contribute to the mood?

Details

❧❧ Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses:

❧ Touch

❧ Smell

❧ Hearing

❧ Seeing

❧ Tasting

❧ Apply each sense to the 5 examples.

Imagery

❧❧ Explores interesting similarities between one thing

and another.❧ Metaphor- direct comparison between 2 unlike

things.

❧ Simile- direct comparison between 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”.

❧ Personification- giving human qualities to nonhuman things

❧ Match each term to the examples.

Figurative Language

❧❧ The way an author arranges words and groups of

words to form sentences.❧ Example: “Yes, I can help you.” vs. “Help you I can,

yes” (Yoda)

❧ Rewrite the sentence provided as many times as you can with varying structures.

Syntax

❧❧ First person- From the POV of the narrator only

❧ Uses pronouns I, Me, Us, We…

❧ Third Person Omniscient- tells the story as though the author knew everything about the actions, thoughts, and feelings of all characters. ❧ Uses pronouns Them, They, He, She…

❧ Third Person Limited- tells the story as though he or she can only perceive the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters. ❧ Uses pronouns Them, They, He, She…

Point of View

❧❧ Tone: The author’s attitude toward a subject.

❧ Pessimistic, optimistic, bitter, humorous, joyful…

❧ Mood: the feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage.❧ Often suggested through details.

Tone vs. Mood

❧❧ The message or underlying meaning of a literary

work.

❧ The author thinks/feels that ___________________...

Theme

Subject / Topic

❧❧ Create the following

chart on the back of your “Yesenia” article.

❧ In your groups, identify examples of the Big 5 throughout this piece.

“Yesenia” Article