Writing Techniques

1. Supporting a point / thesis

2. Use of dialogue

3. Word Choice

Three Writing Techniques

Setting
Plot
Style (reading other stories for ideas)

Techniques for Interesting Writing

-Character arc
-Good rhythm (sentence variations)
-Go chronologically

...and stop procrastinating. Oh, come on, I'm sure I'm not the only one!

~Alicia

Writing Techniques

suspenseful writing

Comparisons

relations to other texts

Writing techniques

Narration
Exposition
Flashback

Writing Techniques -_-

1. Alliteration
2. Comparison and Contrast
3. Persuasion

-Andrea Rojo

New Techniques

*right amount of modifiers
*point of view
*detail

Writing Technique

1.) Parrellism

2.) Target an audience

3.) Imagery

-Abbad A.

More Writing Techniques

1. Metaphors

2. Kenning

3. Irony



--Nayef Abdulkawi

Writing Techniques

1. Hyperbole
2. Chronological order of events
3. Short emotional sentences

-Silviya R. Petkova

Tricks for Narative writing.

1.) Dramatic Liscense
2.) Figurative Language
3.) Beginning, Middle, End. (Climax)

- Mina.

Three Story Writing Techniques

1) Conflict (individual vs. self, individual vs. society)
2) Personification
3) Rising Action

3 Techniques For Story Telling

Three techniques for story telling are:

1) Foreshadowing
2) Perspective
3) Flashback
-Jenny

Six Word Memoir

My Weekend: One night, with a mixed poet.

My Life: Warm Colors, Cold Colors, Uncontrollable Hue

6 words

my weekend

My car: aftermarket expenses, no money.

my life

colorful life: hard and easy, crying and laughing.

Six Word Memoir

Toady's pleasures might be tomorrows sorrows
-Sharne Hayden

Six Word Memoir

Life: complex and emotional yet memorable
-Jenny Cruz

Six Word Memoir:

Cycle of disappointments, joy, and hope.

-Andrea Rojo

Six Word Memoir

Born: Peru, moved: USA in 2000

From Olivia: Thursday, October 22

We'll discuss the reading homework.
We'll listen to this.
We'll read a little Joan Didion.
We'll interrogate ourselves in order to make our narratives as strong as possible.

* * * * *

Here are your vocab words for the day:

consulate:
the local offices of a foreign government official

accidie:
indifference, apathy

Aristophanic:
Aristophanes was a Greek comic poet.
Knowing that information, what do you think Didion means by "the Aristophanic view"?

disparate:
entirely dissimilar

phantasmagoria:
a fantastic/magical seeming sequence of vivid, surreal images (like you'd experience in a dream or a fever)

My Life: A sad beginning; an adventurous present.

Six Word Memoir

My life in six words:

"Had fun; would do it again."

~Alicia Singer

SIX WORD MEMOIR!

weekend :
eat, chill, s#!t, work and homework?

life :
just living life to the fullest!

Six-word Memoir

My weekend: Not enough sleep to remember dreaming.

My life: Too many birthdays to waste time.

-Silviya R. Petkova

Six Word Memoir

My life: going fast, not thinking

6 word memoir

Life:
Sh*t happens, don't cry about it.

6 word qoute

"Cross me once please try again"

six word memoir

Cozy couch: German beer, Chinese novel.

Six-word memoir

Migrating wasn't so bad after all.

- Mina Tanweer

six word memoir

note to self: keep your sanity.

-elise toth

MY LIFE in 6 words:

"Some rough times, but many laughs!"

6 word memoir

My Life:
Wonderful; reality check turned life around.

My weekend:
Help me; stuck at home bored!

--Nadia Avila--

Today's Class

We'll go over misplaced modifiers again.

Mistakes from last week:

Celia received a flyer about a workshop on making a kimono from a Japanese nun.
Celia received a flyer from a Japanese nun about making a kimono.
-->Which one is right?

Jurors are encouraged to sift through the evidence carefully and thoroughly.
Jurors are encouraged to carefully and thoroughly sift through the evidence.
-->Which one is right?


More misplaced modifier exercises:
dianahacker.com/rules

Here are some misplaced modifier examples:

Gregor Samsa learns that families will oppress individuals in The Metamorphosis.
-->How do you fix it?

Gregor Samsa and Stephen Elliott experience alienation, despair, and a longing for death from their families.
-->How do you fix it?

Finally, today, we are watching an episode of this program.

Money for your writing!

An essay contest.

(FYI)
Olivia

Posting for Figurative Language examples is closed

Thank you to those of you who completed the lists . . . please, though, review your notes on each "mode" and examine what you posted; we have a few errors here. E-mail me, or post a question if you're unsure of what you posted.

Today: Discussion of parts 1 and 2 of FK's "The Metamorphosis."

Coming up: RD of your Observation/Description is due Thursday.
Bring your DH book to class. Bring FK to class.

Figurative sentences

Simile: “I bring pizza and salad back to my room for dinner, telling myself that anything tastes better when acquired at some risk to life and limb, like venison fresh from the hunt.” (ND)

Metaphor: “Educated middle-class professionals never go careening half-cocked ino the future, vulnerable to any surprise that light leap out at them.” (ND)

Personification: “On the evening of Tuesday, August 24, still summer, but with back-to-school sales shouting for attention from every shopping center, I arrive at the Trailways bus station…” (ND)

Metaphor: “Seems its marble walls have been “bleeding” onto the brass fixtures, and can I scrub the grouting extra hard?” (ND)

4 Figurative Language Quotes

• "This guy is a real peach." (Baghdad Burning): Kenning?
• "Politics is a whore." (Baghdad Burning): Metaphor
• "The puppet-master met with Bremer and the puppets but the picture wasn't complete- Bush wasn't there." (Baghdad Burning): Kenning
• "Washing clothes is a trial." (Baghdad Burning): Metaphor

- Andrea Rojo

Figurative Language

1. "Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat- even the date palms look limp with the exhaustion of survival" - simile (Bhagdad Burning)
2. "I could swear that at noon, in Iraq, the sun shuts out the rest of the world from its glory and concentrates its energies on us" -personification (Bhagdad Burning)
3. "The boy who didn't get his pony"-Cliche (songs/voices)
4. "Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado"-Simile (Bhagdad Burning)

4 Quotes

1. "I am still alive and like all living things, with each breath I come closer to death."- Cliché/Simile
   
2. "The day is Red, red for violence, and blue because it was cold."- Metaphor
   
3. "Lay slain by a cane, That sailed through the air and came down through the room," -Personification
   
4. "I guess I went to him for the wrong reasons, it wasn't a crazy mind that I was suffering from, it was my shattered soul."-Personification

Jenny Cruz

Figurative Language - Alicia Singer

"At times I feel that the only thing I have left behind me is a path of broken pieces." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" blog (metaphor)

"The land of 1,000 lies." -- from "A Soldier's Thoughts" Blog (metaphor/incomplete sentence!)

"Everything looks like it’s traveling on waves of heat" -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)

"Being out in the streets is like being caught in a tornado." -- from "Baghdad Burning" Blog (simile)