UNIT 1
To explain in detail
Expound
To make less intense; reduce the severity of
What is assuage
Impressive in size
What is prodigious?
Irritation or annoyance
What is vexation?
Action of digging up or unearthing something
What is excavation?
Something that is implied though not directly stated
Implicit Meaning
Familiar, commonly used character types and situations in stories
What is archetype?
The point of view from which a story is told
What is perceptive?
A specialized form of irony, expresses the opposite of what is actually meant
What is sarcasm?
Author's attitude or approach
What is tone?
The sequence of related actions and events that forms a foundation for a story
Plot
Contains all essential points in a text, and omits the opinions of the reader
What is summary?
Plot, characterization, setting, and tone, develop and interact to create meaning in a text.
What is narrative elements?
Words and phrases an author chooses
What is word choice?
The rhythm of the story, how slowly or quickly the actions and events develop and unfold
What is pacing?
In the "Wife's of Bath's Tale," the old woman reminds the knight that he promised to grant any request she made.
The knight shows this character influence when making his decision.
What is the knight is a man of honor, and thus must fulfill the oath he made to the old woman?
In The Faerie Queene, the redcrosse knight falls into the ancient spring.
This is an archetype about water.
What is water is used to represent rebirth and healing?
"As the news of my arrival spread though the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have ensued..."
Context clue from this excerpt that is most helpful in determining the meaning of prodigious.
What is the clause "so that the villages were almost emptied"?
""They can't be bees-nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know-" and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was poking its proboscis into them, "just as if it was a regular bee," thought Alice.
However, this was anything but a regular bee; in fact it was an elephant-as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first."
The purpose of using the term proboscis.
What is proboscis refers to both a bees tongue and an elephants trunk, indicating Alice could be seeing either?
"A large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered, though its lower end was still embedded. As soon as Ogilvy saw me among the staring crowd on the edge of the pit he called to me to come down, and asked me if I would mind going over to see Lord Hilton, the lord of the manor. The growing crowd, he said, was becoming a serious impediment to their excavations, especially the boys."
Context clues that help indicate the meaning of the word excavations.
Read the sentence and then use a thesaurus to look up the word reproof.
"Although Megan had not dusted the house in weeks, she felt hurt by her mothers sharp reproof of her house cleaning skills."
The synonym for reproof that is most accurately displayed in the quote above.
What is criticism?
This is how the author uses plot to develop the character of Una in The Faerie Queene.
What is the author describes Una praying for the knight's recovery, showing she is a virtuous and spiritual person?
How the conflict in Gulliver's Travels develops through the plot.
What is Gulliver works to gain his freedom by convincing the Lilliputians not to fear him and simultaneously gaining their trust?
Passage from Through The Looking Glass that most accurately depicts the use of understatement
What is "everyone seemed satisfied with this, though Alice felt a little nervous at the idea of trains jumping at all."?
Excerpt from War of the Worlds that reveals how the author relates the climax through the narrators thoughts.
What is "all this had happened with such swiftness that I had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. Had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. But it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar?