Article Analysis Of The Week

Article 5

 

This is the next article to analyze. It’s due Tuesday, February 19, 2019. The quiz will be given the same day.

Analyze the article by annotating by completing ALL 5 steps. ALL annotations are to be written directly on the article. Be thorough!!! You do not have to write a separate assignment this time. Remember it’s to your benefit to annotate, because you can use the article for the quiz. You will also be graded on your article annotations.

Notes on the article: From Extinct Animals written by L.H. Heller in 1908

Know the following:

• mode of discourse
• overall tone of the article
• overall theme of the passage
• make sure to define words that are new to you, or you are puzzled about. There are questions about vocabulary
• Pay particular attention to lines 17-19.

MAKE SURE TO REVIEW

• coordinating conjunction
• negative adverb
• prepositional phrase
• participial phrase
• intransitive verb

Review the following rhetorical strategies. (Google them) One of these is used strongly in the article.

• stereotyping
• emotional appeal
• statement of facts
• Causal Relation
• simile

Also review the following literary elements: One of them is used in the article, so review all of them and identify it in your annotations.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• analogy
• figurative language

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