DUE TUESDAY, October 1
- Read and annotate p.279-294
-Read “Waves of Destruction” p.295
-Answer questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.299
- Answer questions about Writer’s Craft #3-4, p.299
DUE WEDNESDAY, October 2
-ALL LATE WORK DUE
-Read “Talk about Editing” p.303
-Questions for Close reading @1-4, p.306
-Questions about writers craft ALL p.306
DUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
- Read “What Shamu Taught Me
about Marriage” p.308
- Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.311
DUE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
-Vocabulary TEST 7
-Write Essay #4, p. 313 handwritten, double-spaced
DUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 5
-Blog Post #11
-Final Draft of Essay p.313, printed by 4:00
Vocabulary TEST LIST
1. 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.”
2. 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.”
3. 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!"
4. SIMILE- comparison
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.”
5. METAPHOR- a simile
without a connecting term such as like or as. EXAMPLE- “The birds are black
arrows flying across the sky.”
6. CHIASMUS -
Repetition of ideas in inverted order. Sometimes called reverse parallelism.
Example: "I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was
to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." (David Foster
Wallace)
7. ZEUGMA - When a word
is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes
literal sense with one of them. Example: "He carried a strobe light and
the responsibility for the lives of his men." (Tim O'Brien)
8. MALAPROPISM: the
unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a
very different meaning. Example: “He’s a wolf in cheap clothing” (using “cheap”
instead of “sheep”).
9. PERSONIFICATION: The
figurative device in which inanimate objects or concepts are given human
qualities. Example: “The flowers were crying for my attention.”
10. ASYNDETON- The
omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
Ex: "This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated
you, who meant to betray you completely." (Aristotle)
11. POLYSYNDETON-
Repetition of conjunctions in close succession.
Ex: "We have ships and men and money and stores."
12. ALLUSION is a short,
informal reference to a famous person or event.
Ex. “You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first. 'Tis a word too great
for any mouth of this age's size.” –Shakespeare
13. ANACOLUTHON:
finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure from that with
which it began. Ex. “Be careful with these two devices because improperly used
they can--well, I have cautioned you enough.”
14. SYNESTHESIA – when
one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex:
The sight of red ants makes you itchy. In literature, synesthesia refers to the
practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image.
Example: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song title, “Taste the Pain,” is an
example.
15. ALLITERATION: the
recurrence of initial consonant sounds. Example: Ah, what a delicious day!
16. DIACOPE: repetition
of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of
emphasis: Example: We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.
17. EPIZEUXIS: repetition
of one word (for emphasis): Example: The best way to describe this portion of
South America is lush, lush, lush.
