Lesson 13 HonorsFigurative Lang.& Foils-to identify literary devices and their effects-to understand how a character foil enhances the understanding of the main character

Time for a pep talk!

Figurative Language ReviewDefine the following terms in your R+J Packets

Imagery Verbal expression of sensory experience; using descriptive words to appeal to the five sense

Metaphor A direct comparison between two unlike things

Simile A comparison between two or more things using the words like or as

Personification

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

Hyperbole Exaggeration used to suggest strong emotion or create a humorous effect

Allusion A reference to a well known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work

Figurative Language Review Questions Romeo: “Love is smoke made with the fume of sighs” What kind of figurative language is this? What is the comparison or use of figurative

language?

“One fairer than my love! The all seeing sun/Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun.”

What kind of figurative language? What is the comparison/use?

Read through page 280 and let’s do the example question together.

New Figurative Language Terms 

Enjambment*  

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next, without a pause between lines. (notice how you read without a pause)Ex: The waves beside them danced; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee

Dr. Seus wrote in iambic tetrameter. If he had split his lines differently, he would have used enjambment:I do not eat green eggsAnd ham, I will not eat them, Sam I am

 Internal Rhyme* 

A rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled.

 Consonance*

  

The repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of words, that do not rhyme and preceded by different vowel sounds

Brick-clockCannot-recollect

 Assonance*

  

The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words.Ex: I’ve been trying / to remember the taste, / but it doesn’t exist

About the town the owl could not be found.

 Archaism*

  

The use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current

The word thee is an archaism because it’s old and no longer used

PreAP Terms Practice Turn to the Prologue on page 261 (in SB

books). Go through the Prologue and see how

many of the PreAP terms you can spot!

Character Foils & Puns A foil is a character who provides a

______________________to another character. A foil may emphasize another character’s

______________________ or may make another character look better by comparison.

A foil essentially is a character that ________________ and _________________ another character.

A pun is a play on words.

Strong contrast

Distinctive traits

compares contrasts

Read Act II, Scenes 3-4 Time to read… graphic novel style!

Character Foils & PunsYou may have noticed Shakespeare’s use of wordplay in R&J. For example, Shakespeare makes liberal use of puns, or play on words, that have two meanings. In Act II, Scene 4, Mercutio and Romeo engage in an exchange in which Mercutio scolds Romeo for giving his friends “the counterfeit” the night before. Romeo, still on top of the world after spending the evening with his new love Juliet, goes along with Mercuito’s joke. The next several lines capitalize on the dual meanings of counterfeit and slip.1. Why do you think puns are known as “thinking man’s

humor?”2. In this scene, the wordplay between Romeo and

Mercutio helps characterize their friendship and reveals contrasts between them. Compare the characters in the chart on page 281.

Figurative Language Practice For the remainder of class, you will

complete the worksheet on figurative language and answer the exit ticket.

Exit TicketAnalysis Practice

Shakespeare writes dialogue in a variety of styles in this act: (1) rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter, (2) unrhymed (blank) iambic verse, and (3) nonmetrical prose.

In other words, why does Shakespeare have some characters speak metrically and others not, some rhyme and others not? Examine various combinations of these three dialogic syles found so far in Act II and judge his possible artistic purpose in all cases.

Justify your claims by referring to particular examples of each style, assess his purpose in doing so.

3-4 paragraphs.