Lowry
Bradbury
Lecture/Grab Bag
Vehicle and Tenor
Paragraph
100
This is the name given to the town in which Jonas resides.
What is the Community?
100
This is the title of the poem Montag reads to Mildred and her friends, written by Matthew Arnold around 1850 and published in 1867.
What is "Dover Beach"?
100
These are the three levels of LANGUAGE (not the three levels of questioning - which are parallel but slightly different).
What are conscious awareness, social participation, and imagination?
100
My love is like a red, red rose.
Vehicle: rose Tenor: love
100
When citing evidence, avoid dropping quotations into your essay without any setup, a method that Mr. Peneton calls this "F" word.
What is forklifting?
200
The first memory given to the baby Gabriel.
What is the memory of the sailboat?
200
There are parallels between these two characters - one in The Giver, the other in Fahrenheit 451.
Who are the Giver and Faber?
200
These are Costa's three levels of QUESTIONS (NOT the three levels of language, which are parallel but different)?
What are gathering, processing, and applying/imagining?
200
"With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head..."
Vehicle: python Tenor: hose/nozzle/kerosene spitter
200
This should act as the first statement of your paragraph that your reader reads, and comes first.
What is the interpretive statement or topic sentence?
300
These were the first two memories given to Jonas.
What are the memories of snow (the sled memory) and sunshine?
300
At the end of the second section of F451, Montag shows up here with Beatty and the other firemen.
What is his own home?
300
Northrop Frye says that the one "story" of literature is the story of the loss and regain of this.
What is identity?
300
I know, I feel the meaning that words hide; they are [...] little boxes, conditioned to hatch butterflies...
Vehicle: little boxes (conditioned to hatch butterflies) Tenor: words
300
The linking sentence (sometimes called the explanatory sentence) performs this function.
What is linking the evidence in the paragraph back to the topic sentence/interpretive statement and/or showing an explicit connection between the writer's ideas and the evidence selected?
400
This is one of a few allusions to the Bible within The Giver.
What is the apple OR Asher (tribe of Israel)?
400
Name two of the three images to which Faber's knowledge 'pouring' into Montag is compared.
What are snowflakes, raindrops, and/or stones?
400
Thomas C. Foster explains in a chapter from his book How to Read Literature like a Professor (which we read in class) that we should look for THESE when we read - images repeated in a narrative or poem which create meaning within a single piece and between many pieces of literature.
What is a pattern or archetype (though I'll accept motif)?
400
The invisible worm That flies through the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy
Vehicle: Worm Tenor: ??? (it's a symbol!)
400
If your interpretive statement is sufficiently complex, this type of sentence/statement necessarily follows.
What is a definition or clarification sentence?
500
These two terms refer to the two stages or conditions of the hero's journey.
What are primary and antithetical?
500
The two books of the Bible from which Montag memorizes passages.
What are (St. John's) Revelation and Ecclesiastes?
500
This is a language reconstructed from other extant languages, the "mother" of all languages contained in the family that contains English, Old English, Latin, and Sanskrit.
What is Proto-Indo-European (PIE)?
500
I go where I belong, inexorably, as the rain that has lain long in the furrow...
Vehicle: rain Tenor: the speaker herself
500
You write essays not because you'll grow up to write more and more essays (unless you study literature, like Mr. Peneton), but because writing essays, especially essays about literature, develops our ___________ skills; writing good essays help us learn to ___________.
What is critical thinking; think?
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