"Rhetorical Devices"

Literary techniques and elements are the writerly tools most of you are familiar with.  Some of the essays and/or speeches that you will have to analyze for Part 3 of the Common Core Regents exam, however, make use of the what is referred to in the directions as "Rhetorical Devices".  We have studied these and applied them but you have not made use of them in your analysis of the Part 3 question.  You are trying to rely mostly on the other writerly tools that are referred to as literary.  Refer to the directions in Part 3 of the Common Core exams on the website- nysedregents.org/hsela

You will find that the writing samples that the exam selects to use can be more easily analyzed and responded to by identifying the following techniques that writers use:

Compare/Contrast
Classification/Division
Process Analysis
Definition
Description
Narration
Exemplification
Cause/ Effect

In some cases, the writers of the selections on the exam do not use literary elements/techniques- trying to analyze the text that way is difficult and time consuming.

In a google document that you created to explain the phrase "distinguish your claim....", define each of these above.  Then, look at the Part 3 selected texts on the Common Core exam website to identify at least one of the above terms in each of the Part 3 questions from the three different test dates on the website.

Transition from a Transition: from Pap to Jackson Island

Respond to the following question in your Huck Finn Google Document.

Chapter 7

What important event/useful acquisition takes place, at the beginning of this chapter?  Why is it crucial to the plot of Chapters 7 and 8?

What does Huckleberry make people believe?  How does he do it?  How does this add to the development of his character in the novel?

Where does he go?  What does he do?

Chapter 8

Why is there a cannon being fired at the beginning of this chapter?

What does Huckleberry discover in his new home?  What is his reaction to this discovery?

  

Who does Huckleberry discover?  Summarize the events relayed by his “new friend”.

What “investment” has his new acquaintance made?  List them.

How do we understand this character by the information he has given to Huckleberry?

Overview- Explain the world that the three focal characters of these chapters live in.  What are their rules, values and qualities that enable them to survive?  Define what at least two of these characters share and concisely identify the environment that these three characters inhabit.  In doing so, what comment and/ or conclusion does our author, Mark Twain, make about human nature?

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 2- Huckleberry Finn

English 11

Mr. Buyce

From your reading for homework, answer the following questions.  Answer what you able to without your novel; use the book for the questions you cannot answer.  Be sure to be accurate in your responses.  Please work alone, as you will be evaluated on an individual basis.

Write your responses into the last Google Doc that you have for Huckleberry Finn.

Chapter 2

1.       Who hears Huck and Tom?

2.       What uncomfortable thing happens to Huck?

3.       What does Tom Sawyer do?

4.       How does Jim explain his hat being taken?

5.       Explain the stories Jim tells?

6.       How do other slaves react to Jim’s stories?

7.       How are Jim’s fellow slaves characterized?

8.       What kind of status has Jim set himself up with, to his fellows?  How has he done that?

9.       Why is Jim “ruined for a servant”?

10.   Who does Huck and Tom find?

11.   Where do the boys go?

12.   What do they do once they are there?  What do they call it?

13.   Explain the oath of Sawyer’s gang?

14.   What do the boy’s decide about Huckleberry’s family?

15.   What is the function of Sawyer’s gang?  For what reason?

16.   What is the gang’s understanding of “ransom”?

17.   What does the gang treat women? Why?

18.   What do Tom and the gang plan to do in a week?

19.   What happens to Huckleberry’s clothes?

20.   Write a paragraph on the cultural understanding of Jim, his fellow slaves and the boys in this chapter.  How are each defined- what are they representations of?  What comment is Twain making on each of these type of characters?

Ch 1 (Huck Finn) Answer C in a Google Doc.

titled the Wild World of HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Answer these questions below.

A. Comprehension1.  What other book did Mark Twain write?

2.  What does the speaker of this passage tell us about Twain's handling of the truth?

3.  Why does our speaker leave the widow's house and then return?

4.  What does the widow do before meals?

5.  Why is the speaker not concerned with Moses?

6.  What habits do the speaker and the widow have?

7.  What place does miss Watson tell our narrator about?How does he feel about this place?

8.  Why doesn't our narrator want to go to the good place?

9.  What bad sign does our narrator receive?

10.  What does our narrator do to protect himself?

11.  Where does the narrator go?  How does he get there?  Who is waiting for him there?

B. Analysis

12.  What is our speaker's education?  Support your response with proof from the text.

13.  What does our narrator's observation about the author explain about writers?

14.  How does our narrator feel about "civilized" life?  Explain your answer with proof from the text.

15.  How does the speaker feel about religion- Christianity?

16.  How does he feel about the supernatural? Support your response with reference to the text.

C. Literary Element- Characterization
In a paragraph, explain how our narrator is characterized in this first chapter.  Explain at least three different aspects of his personality, using evidence from the text to support your observations.

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