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AP Language and Composition October 19-26, 2012 Style Tropes and Schemes

AP Language and Composition October 19-26, 2012 Style Tropes and Schemes. Quickwrite ~ Copy down the following two sentences. Then rewrite them in a way that is most comfortable for you. Change the form, not the content. Quickwrite. “And there, at last, I got my ticket to the disaster.”.

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AP Language and Composition October 19-26, 2012 Style Tropes and Schemes

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  1. AP Language and Composition October 19-26, 2012 Style Tropes and Schemes

  2. Quickwrite ~ Copy down the following two sentences. Then rewrite them in a way that is most comfortable for you. Change the form, not the content.

  3. Quickwrite • “And there, at last, I got my ticket to the disaster.”

  4. Quickwrite • “Gathered along the ramp were firefighters in their black helmets and black coats.”

  5. Quickwrite ~ Reflection • What did your changes do to the sentence? • Which sentence was more effective? Why?

  6. Style ~ Vocabulary • DICTION • tropes ~ artful diction • Examples: • metaphor • simile • hyperbole • personification • SYNTAX • schemes ~ artful syntax • Examples: • parallelisms • juxtapositions • antitheses

  7. Now, analyze the piece… Use the questions on page 37 to guide your thinking.

  8. Indentifying “tropes” & “schemes”: • Read the short paragraph. • Label the tropes and schemes. • Mark anything you think is important even though you might not know what it is.

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