DUE TUESDAY, September 23
- 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
-Read “Talk about
Editing” p.303
-Questions for
Close reading @1-4, p.306
-Questions about
writers craft ALL p.306
- Read “What
Shamu Taught Me about Marriage” p.308
- Answer
Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.311
DUE FRIDAY, September 26
-Vocabulary TEST
7
-Write Essay #4,
p. 313 handwritten, double-spaced
-ALL LATE WORK
DUE – Quarter Grade Cut-Off
DUE
MONDAY, September 29
-Blog Post #11
-Final Draft of
Essay p.313, emailed or printed by 3rdperiod
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.
