August 18-22 Homework & Vocabulary

Due Monday, August 18

·         Final draft of the descriptive essay, emailed to me by 8:10am, MLA format

·         Peer Reviewed rough draft

·         Blog post #5

Due Tuesday, August 19

·         Read Chapter 4, p. 126-145

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading on “Fourth of July” p. 143

·         Questions About the Writers Craft, p. 144 #3, 4

Due Thursday, August 21

·         Read “Shooting an Elephant” p. 146

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 152

·         Questions about the Writers Craft, p. 152, #1,4

·         Read “Someone’s Mother” p. 154  

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p.156

·         Questions about the Writers Craft p. 156, # 2, 4

Due Friday, August 22

·         Read “Salvation” p. 158

·         Complete ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 160

·         Write an essayp.161, #3

·         Write a narrative essay. Pick a topic from p. 173 –Handwritten, DOUBLE SPACED

·         Study for vocabulary quiz

Due Monday, August 25

·         Final draft for the narrative essay. Typed, emailed to me by 8:10am, MLA format.

·         Peer Reviewed rough draft for the narrative essay

·         Blog Post #6

 

VOCABULARY LIST

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)

POLYSYNDETON- Repetition of conjunctions in close succession.
Ex: "We have ships and men and money and stores."

SYLLOGISM- Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

Ex. If Johnny is eating sweets every day, he is placing himself at risk for diabetes. Johnny does not eat sweats everyday. Therefore Johnny is not placing himself at risk for diabetes.

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

Pleonasm: using more words than required to express an idea; being redundant.

Ex. “The vote was completely and totally unanimous.” (A unanimous vote cannot be anything but complete and total.)

Exemplum: Figure of amplification using an example, brief or extended, real or fictitious, to illustrate a point; an example. Examples can be introduced by the obvious choice of "For example," but there are other possibilities. For quick introductions, such as those attached to a sentence, you might use "such as," or "for instance." Examples placed into separate sentences can be introduced by "A case in point," "An instance," "A typical situation," "A common example," "To illustrate, let's consider the situation," and so forth.

Ex. "All this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. Now, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed." – George C. Scott

Metanoia (correctio) qualifies a statement by recalling it (or part of it) and expressing it in a better, milder, or stronger way. A negative is often used to do the recalling.

Ex. “The chief thing to look for in impact sockets is hardness; no, not so much hardness as resistance to shock and shattering.”

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.”