Homework & Vocabulary October 2-5, 8

HOMEWORK

DUE Tuesday, October 2

·         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 3

·         Read “Waves of Destruction” p.303

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading ALL, p.306

         ·         Read “What Shamu Taught Me about Marriage” p.308

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p.311

DUE Thursday, October 4

·         Read “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” p. 314

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #1-4, p. 325

·         Read “The Fine Art of Complaining” p. 327

·         Answer Questions for Close Reading #2-4, p.330

·         Answer Questions about Writer’s Craft #3, p. 331

DUE Friday, October 5

·         Write a rough draft of a process analysis essay, p.333

·         Annotations DUE, Ch. 4-7

DUE Monday, October 8

·         Final draft of Process Analysis (typed and printed by the end of the school day- 3:30pm.)

·         Blog Post #12

 

VOCABULARY

·         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.”

 

·         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.”

 

·         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)

 

·         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)

 

·         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 huan qualities. Example: “The flowers were crying for my attention.”

·         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."

·         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

·         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.”

 

·         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.

 

·         ALLITERATION: the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. Example: Ah, what a delicious day!

·         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.

·         EPIZEUXIS: repetition of one word (for emphasis): Example: The best way to describe this portion of South America is lush, lush, lush.