Thursday November 15 Story of an Hour infer vs. imply

Learning Target

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings. 

I can analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning, tone, and mood, including words with multiple meanings. 

Essential Question: How does an author reveal the inner workings of a character through diction?

            

Wednesday in class: Practice with infer and imply. 

Note that 1 1/2 classes has been allocated for the completion of the assessment. It is do 20 minutes into class on Thursday.

Directions for the assessment.

1. Everyone receives a handout. (copy below)

2. Open up a document in your chromebook

3. Write a MLA heading as follows:

                                                                  (surname)

your name

Parker

English 3-?

14 November 2018

                              The Story of an Hour: imply / inferred

4. We are reviewing the instructions as a class.

     You will read the sentence on the handout, noting in particular the underlined words. You will then write a complete sentence, which can stand independently, explaining what is being implied or inferred. You must weave in text within your response. Please follow the example below. The assignment is due at the close of class on Wednesday.

5. model for question 1

   Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

     What is being implied by Mrs. Mallard's "heart trouble" is that the woman is unhealthy and so people must be very careful about telling her about "her husband's death", as she might have a heart attack.

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The Story of an Hour    by  Kate Chopin 

Before you begin, read over carefully the difference between infer and imply!

INFER vs. IMPLY

The best way to remember the difference between these two words is to think in terms of the model used by communications theorists. Communication consists of a message, a sender, and a receiver. The sender can imply, but the receiver can only infer. The error that usually occurs is that the word infer is mistakenly used for imply.

IMPLY = to put the suggestion into the message (sender implies)

INFER = to take the suggestion out of the message (receiver infers)

IMPLICATION = what the sender has implied

INFERENCE = what the receiver has inferred

You will find below excerpts from the short story. For each of the underlined sections, write a sentence that explains what is being inferred or implied in terms of the character or plot.  Note that there might be both a literal and metaphorical inference and / or implication.  It is important to be aware of every word. Use these terms specifically.

1.       Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

2.       It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.

3.       He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

    

4.       She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.

    

5.       She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.

6.       There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair.

7.       Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

8.       She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.

9.       There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

10.   It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.

11.   She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.

12.   She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.

13.   There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.

14.   Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhold, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door-- you will make yourself ill.

15.   It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one

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