Homework & Vocabulary August 11-15

DUE MONDAY, August 11

· Blog Post #4

· Final Draft of p.60, #1, MLA format, emailed to me by 8:10AM

· Read and Annotate p.72-86

· Complete #3, p.85

DUE TUESDAY, August 12

· Read and annotate “Sister Flowers” p. 87

· Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 92,

· Answer Questions About the Writer’s Craft, p. 93 #2, 4

DUE WEDNESDAY, August 13

· Read and annotate “Flavio’s Home” p. 95

· Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading p. 101

· Complete writing assignment #1 OR #2 (your choice) on page 102, handwritten

· Read and annotate “Bloggers Without Borders” p. 111

· Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 114

DUE THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

· Read and annotate “A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” p. 117

· Answer ALL Questions for Close Reading, p. 12

DUE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

· Write a descriptive essay, chose a topic from p. 124, 1-20, handwritten

· Study for vocabulary quiz

DUE MONDAY, AUGUST 18

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

· Blog post #5

VOCABULARY LIST FOR QUIZ ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 18

DON’T FORGET- The quiz may contain questions over vocabulary learned from previous weeks.

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)

PARALLELISM- Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning“beside one another.” It refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. This can involve, but is not limited to, repetition of a grammatical element such as a preposition or verbal phrase. Example:“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of believe, it was the epoch of incredulity....” (Charles Dickens)

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)

CLICHE: A trite expression--often a figure of speech whose effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity. Example: “What goes around comes around”

SARCASM: is defined in The Oxford Universal Dictionary, published in 1933, as "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt." More contemporary definitions often emphasize the false, mocking praise and verbal irony of sarcasm rather than its malicious or scornful intent. Example: I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

EUPHEMISM: A word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term. Example: “My grandpa unexpectedly passed away yesterday” (use of “passed away” instead of “died”)

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”).

PERSONIFICATION: The figurative device in which inanimate objects or concepts are given human qualities. Example:“The flowers were crying for my attention.”