Formative Assessment
Possible Answers/Scoring Guide
“William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”
Overall effect: Gracious acceptance tempered by his belief that writers can help humanity to prevail.
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Example of Sound Device |
Contribution to the Speech |
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Alliteration—ding-dong of doom
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Adds to his belief that humanity is doomed unless the writer reminds the human race that it can succeed. |
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Onomatopoeia—ding-dong
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Contributes to the tone of the speech through an auditory signal. |
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Repetition—because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. |
Emphasizes the writer’s duty to help humanity to prevail. |
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Consonance—man is immortal simply…; clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last dead and dying evening… |
Gives rhythm and emphasis and ensures his audience knows his belief. |
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Slang—“When will I be blown up?” |
Emphasizes a very base fear of young writers in light of the time in which this speech was given. Adds to the doom factor of the human race. |
Formative Assessment Scoring Guide
3 points – Provides an example of a sound device used by the author of the selection. Clearly explains how the sound device adds to the meaning and provides relevant text examples/details for support.
2 points – Provides an example of a sound device used by the author of the selection; partially explains how the
sound device adds to the meaning and provides text examples/details for support.
1 point – Provides an example but meaning is incorrect and/or no explanation is given. Text examples/details do
Not clearly support the explanation or are not given
0 point – Other