- Took quiz on chapters 7,8. Reading logs of chapters 5 through 8 were checked for a grade.
- Discussed the imagery in chapter 8 further. The slaughter of the sow can be seen as the point when Jack and the hunters lost the last vestiges of civilization in a kind of twisted baptism of blood. This sets the scene for chapter 9.
- HW: Read chapter 9 and write log
- Vocab quiz on Friday, not tomorrow. Review words.
Theme: a unifying idea that is a repeating element in literary or artistic work
Ex: "Never give up." "Accept what can’t be avoided." "The need of the one outweighs the need of the many."
Tone: a literary technique, that is a part of composition, that shows the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, sad, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes.
Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a clash or discordance between what a speaker / writer /actor says or does, and what he or she means or what is generally understood. There are three types of irony: verbal, dramatic and situational.
Symbol: something used for or regarded as representing something else; ex. The grim reaper=death, huskie=football team, eagle=America
Allegory: a story meant to be read symbolically.
Elfin: Relating to or suggestive of an elf, Having a magical quality or charm
Empathy: understanding and entering into another's feelings. Different than sympathy which is to feel sorry for; empathy is to feel the same as.
Hedonism: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses
Anguish: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
Anecdote: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Profound: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; great, important meaning
Thesis: A statement that is maintained by argument
Annotate: to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes
Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
Prosody: study of poetic meters and writing verse; the particular system of verse in a poem.
Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language
Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is used to mean another, thus making a comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).
Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in "she is like a rose."
Conundrum - (noun)
1. a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
2. an intricate and difficult problem
iambic pentameter: The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat
Precedent (noun)- 1) an earlier occurrence of something similar 2) something that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a similar future act or statement.
Pandemic (adj.)--spread over an entire country, continent or world.
Cynical: Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others; Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness
11R
- Rewrite last nights summary, hand in for grade.
- Review vocab. Quiz tomorrow. Study!
- Read next section in Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
- HW: Write summary, same as yesterday.
