30 MENTOR SENTENCES for Literary & Rhetorical Devices with Writing Revision

This product is a POWER POINT that contains 30 MENTOR SENTENCES from famous classic writers to model key literary terms, rhetorical devices, and syntactical structures for students.

For each sentence, students are to:

1. Copy the sentence.
2. Make observations about the sentence.
3. Imitate the sentence.
4. Learn about literary devices.
5. Answer questions about how the devices are used for rhetorical and literary effect.
6. Revise an essay with a new sentence modeled after that of the famous writer.
7. Reflect back on the new added sentence.
8. Share with a partner.

These MENTOR SENTENCE activities will take students through the process of not only using literary and rhetorical devices in action but will integrate them into writing workshop as mini-lessons for making their writing more powerful.

This POWER POINT is fully editable and is suitable for Advanced Placement and modifiable for other levels of HIGH SCHOOL English.

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Devices included in this set include:

Parallel Structure
Antithesis
Anaphora
Asyndeton
Parataxis
Polysyndeton
Paradox
Irony
Chiasmus
Balanced Sentence
Epistrophe
Rule of Three
Tricolon
Analogy
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Loose Sentence
Hypotaxis
Apostrophe
Allusion
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Rhetorical Question
Litotes
The Dash
Hyperbole
Understatement
Semi-colon
Colon
Repetition
Contrast
Periodic Sentence
Simple Sentence
Amplification
Antimetabole
Anadiplosis
Balanced Sentence
Zeugma
Epithet
Epanalepsis

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ZIP FILE CONTAINS THREE VERSIONS OF THIS PRODUCT. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EMBED FONTS INTO POWER POINT WITH MAC, SO I HAVE INCLUDED A .PDF VERSION AND AN UNEDITABLE .PNG VERSION (ON POWER POINT) THAT YOU CAN USE TO PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL FONTS AS DESIGNED. THIS FILE ALSO INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL POWER POINT THAT IS EDITABLE BUT WILL OPEN WITH DEFAULT FONTS FOR POWER POINT UNLESS YOU OWN THE SAME FONTS AS IN THE PRESENTATION.