Unit 1
_______ of a word is its meaning that appears in the dictionary.
Read the following excerpt from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
"Thou liest, malignant thing. Hast thou forgot
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?"
Based on this excerpt, what does the word malignant mean?
Having an evil or malicious nature
________ means to stay in a place temporarily; stop at or visit.
Sojourn
Read excerpt from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins:
“No, no, no,” she said vehemently. “I’m quite safe, and quite happy now. If you are a gentleman, remember your promise. Let him drive on till I stop him. Thank you—oh! thank you, thank you!”
Based on the context of the excerpt, what does the word vehemently mean?
In a way that is strongly emotional, heated, or impassioned
________ is defined as having or showing good judgment and an ability to grasp difficult concepts and ideas.
Sagacious
These are two ways, discussed specifically in the course, that authors often use as an engaging way to provide implicit meaning.
Symbolism and Allusion
________ are familiar, commonly used character types and situations in stories.
Archetypes
______ is a form of verbal irony that sounds like praise but intentionally mocks or ridicules.
Sarcasm
________ is created when authors repeat certain words or phrases to call attention to a concept they want readers to notice.
Anaphora
_________ of the same story present different variations of the same work—in prose and in poetry, for example.
Artistic representations
The _____ of the text is its central message or universal truth that the author conveys through the characters and plot. While the _____ _____ is an overarching message or truth that is specific to a story.
In this form of prewriting, you write continuously about whatever comes to mind regarding any possible topic for your writing task.
Freewriting
What are the two purposes of writing an exposition?
1) to hook readers to make them want to keep reading
2) to introduce the topic or story
Mary Shelley inclusion of Walton's Letters at the beginning of the novel is an example of ________.
Framing
A _______ is a single sentence that summarizes the central idea of your essay
Claim
The following excerpt from And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie is best characterized by what part of narrative structure?
"Suddenly, in spite of the heat in the carriage she shivered and wished she wasn’t going to the sea. A picture rose clearly before her mind. Cyril’s head, bobbing up and down, swimming to the rock. … Up and down – up and down. And herself, swimming easy practiced strokes after him – cleaving her way through the water but knowing, only too surely, that she wouldn’t be in time. ..."
Flashback
Read the excerpt from John Donne’s “Breake of Day.”
Light hath no tongue, but is all eye;
If it could speake as well as spie,
This were the worst, that it could say,
That being well, I faine would stay.
What type of figurative language is exemplified in the above excerpt?
Personification
Read the poem “Ozymandias.”
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert … Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
What is the first ambiguity in the poem?
"I met a traveller from an antique land..."
Read the opening stanza from Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Darkling Thrush.”
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt?
Metaphor
Read the following sentence from P. G. Wodehouse’s story “Strychnine in the Soup”
“Tell me, Lady Bassett, […] while making a pest of yourself to the denizens of those jungles, did you notice one thing?”
In this sentence the author is employing _____ to convey that Cyril does not hold a very high opinion of Lady Bassett.
Humor
What inference can be made from the following excerpt from Beowulf.
"“For I say in sooth, thou son of Ecglaf,
never had Grendel these grim deeds wrought,
monster dire, on thy master dear,
in Heorot such havoc, if heart of thine
were as battle-bold as thy boast is loud!”"
Beowulf thinks Unferth is a coward
What point of view is used in the following excerpt from Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney?
"You wanted an explanation, an ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation. But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name."
Second person
Read the following paragraph:
George’s day is beginning. As soon as he wakes up in the morning, he learns that his bride, Victoria, is dead. After a long day of entertaining visitors the previous night, Victoria and George went to bed. The next day, her body is found at the bottom of a staircase. No one knows who killed her, though George has an idea of who it might be.
What literary technique is missing that would make this paragraph more similar to the Gothic Romantic genre?
Figurative language
Read the first sentence of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Darkling Thrush,”
"I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day."
What line/phrase is an example of personification?
"The weakening eye of day"
The follows in an example of why type of prewriting?
I. introduction
II. body paragraphs
1. topic sentence
2. supporting details
1. topic sentence
2. supporting details
1. topic sentence
2. supporting details
III. conclusion
Outline