August 5-9 Homework and Vocabulary

Due Monday , August 5:

-Blog Post #3

-Read Ch. 1- “The Reading Process” p.1-12

-Do ALL Questions for Close reading. 11

-ALL Questions about the Writer’s Craft, p. 12

-Pick one writing assignment, p. 12 handwritten, due MONDAY

-Reading quiz over Ch. 1 on Monday

 

Due Tuesday, August 6

-Review Vocabulary and Rhetorical Devices, quiz Friday

 

Due Wednesday, August 7

-Read Ch. 2, pg. 13-40

-Complete # 1, 2 on p. 27 IB

-Complete #1, on p. 31 IB, WRITE THESIS STATEMENT, IDENTIFY PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, TONE

-Complete #1, p.38

-Complete #4 on p. 39

 

Due Thursday, August 8

-Finish Ch. 2 pg. 40-71

-Review #3 on p. 46

-Complete #1, p. 60

-Prepare for the quiz

 

Due Friday, August 9

-Study for the quiz

-Log onto EDLINE, figure it out if yours isn’t working

 

Vocabulary List, Quiz on August 9

Write out the definition:

·         Logos- an appeal to reason and logic.

·         Ethos- an appeal to speaker´s credibility

·         Pathos- an appeal to the emotions, values, or desires of the audience

Fill in the balnk:

·         Hyperbole- an overstatement or exaggeration it is the use of figurative language that significantly exaggerates the facts for effect. In many instances, but certainly not all, hyperbole is employed for comic effect.

EXAMPLE- “My backpack weighs a ton!

 

·         Simile- comparision between two unlike objects, in which the two parts are connected with a term such as like or as

EXAMPLE- “She is like a rose.”

 

·         Metaphor- a simile without a connecting term such as like or as.

EXAMPLE- “The birds are black arrows flying across the sky.”

 

·         Oxymoron- an apparent contradiction of terms

EXAMPLE- “That was a seriously funny joke.”

·         Pun – a play on words. In general, a pun either plays on the multiple meanings of a word or replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but very different in meaning. Puns are almost always used for comic effect.

EXAMPLE- “He had a difficult time bouncing back from his bungee cord accident.”

·         Metonymy – the use of figurative language in which characteristics are substituted for the things in which they are associated.

EXAMPLE- “The United States will be delivering the new product to us very soon.”

·         Aphorism – a concise, pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth

EXAMPLE- “Many hands make light work.”