english

Descriptive essay

• vivid language

  • 5 senses

    • smell

    • hear

    • touch

    • taste

    • sight

• figurative language

• dominant impression

  • begins on the thesis statement

• patterns of language

  • xx

exposition

• setting

  • temporal (time)

  • physical

• pov

  • 1st

  • 2nd

  • 3rd

• characters

  • round/dynamic

    • character is to evolve

  • static/flat

    • character does not change

• title

  • what does the audience think about

• personification

  • giving human characteristics to inanimate injects

• primary source

  • the text is what u are writing about

• secondary source

  • article written about the primary source

Bio-Sketch: Junot Diaz “The Money” (2011)

• setting

  • temporal - 1980

  • physical - new jersey (very poor neighborhood pg. 147)

• pov

  • 1st person story

    • we know because he is using personal pronouns

• info about storyteller

  • he is an immigrant from Dominican Republic

• side info

  • we are in 1980s

    • economic despair

    • 3.5% inflation

    • hip hop became international

  • president at the time was Ronald Reagan

  • Ronald Reagan’s message was “Just Say No!”

worldly things poem

• canary in a coldmine

• he wants a father that can be a nurture without feeling slight about or subconscious about being a nurturer.

• soft enough to bend

Norton introduction

• conflicts:

  • man vs man

  • man vs self

  • man vs society

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