Ghosts Continued / Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Apologies for the lack of posts over the past week. I will be out again tomorrow.

Grade 12

• Continue reading Ghosts of War.
• Checked reading logs for first three chapters today. Will check through 6 on Thursday.
• Should be up to at least chapter 8 by Thursday.

Grade 10

• Finished kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour."
• Tomorrow is an exam on vocab 1-20 and the short stories done over the past two weeks: "The Monkey's Paw," "The River, the Bass and Sheila Mont," and "Story of an Hour."
• Vocab is as follows:
• 1. 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.”
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Allusion: An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know.
  5. Symbol: something used for or regarded as representing something else; ex. The grim reaper=death, huskie=football team, eagle=America
  6. Allegory: a story meant to be read symbolically.
  7. Elfin: Relating to or suggestive of an elf, Having a magical quality or charm
  8. Empathy: understanding and entering into another's feelings. Different than sympathy which is to feel sorry for; empathy is to feel the same as.
  9. Hedonism: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses
  10. Anguish: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
  11. Anecdote: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
  
  12. Profound: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; great, important meaning
  
  13. Thesis: A statement that is maintained by argument
  
  14. Annotate: to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes
  
  15. Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
  
  16. Prosody: study of poetic meters and writing verse; the particular system of verse in a poem.
  
  17. Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language
  
  18. 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).
  
  19. Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using ‘like’ or ‘as’, as in “she is like a rose.”
  
  20. Conundrum - (noun) 1. a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun 2. an intricate and difficult problem