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Unit 3: Suspense is the Spice of Life9th Grade Literature and Composition

Review Time! - Language• What is Mood?• the overall feelings or emotions that are created in

the reader• What is Tone?• author’s attitude toward the subject/

author’s voice• What is style?• the way the author uses words, phrases,

and sentences• What is diction?• Author’s word choice

Review Time! - Language

• What is setting?• Time and place in the story• What is slang?• Nonstandard, colloquial language• What is jargon?• Language specific to a subject or science

Review Time! - Characterization• What are the two types of characterization?• Internal and External• What is the difference between a flat and round character?• Round = many characteristics/traits; Flat = only one

characteristic/trait• What is the difference between a static and dynamic

character?• Dynamic = changes; Static = no change • What is the difference between the antagonist and the

protagonist?• Protagonist = main character; antagonist = opposing force/

antithesis

Review Time! - Plot

• What is the exposition?• Background information/ beginning of the story• What is the resolution/denouement?• End of the story• What are the two types of conflict?• Internal and external• What are the 3 types of external conflict?• Man vs. Man; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society

Review Time – Determine the underlined word by context• “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will

change it; I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (Bronte, Wuthering Heights).

• Leaves; plant life; trees• Now the fields are brown and barren,/ Bitter autumn blows,/

And of all the stupid asters/ Not one knows” (Teasdale, “Wild Asters”).

• Infertile; sterile; not alive• “After a prolonged absence at this stage of the entertainment,

he at length came back with a casket of precious appearance containing twigs” (Dickens, Great Expectations).

• Long time, lengthy time

Review Time – Determine the underlined word by context• “…for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things

about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back” (Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men).

• Collected, gathered • “A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth

and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals”(Garcia Marquez, “The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings).

• Agreed, condescended, stooped

Review Time! Name the Figure of speech

• “Pearl Button swung on the little gate in front of the House of Boxes. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it” (Mansfield, “How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”).

• Personification• “I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity” (Conrad, The

Heart of Darkness).• Hyperbole• “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts” (Shakespeare’s As You Like It).

• Metaphor• “I wandered lonely as a cloud/ that floats on high o’er vales and hills”

(Wordsworth, “The Daffodils”).• Simile

Review Time! Name the Figure of speech

• “When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping winter treads” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet).

• Personification• “Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,

scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol).

• Simile