Appositive and Prepositional Phrases
Identify all prepositional and appositive phrases.
"having created the ice cream" is a participial phrase, not an appositive one.
TRIPLE POINTS: Gregory gave a speech about hygiene yesterday. If I wanted to disgust Gregory with imagery, which kind of imagery would I use and why?
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A scientist writes "photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts." A poet writes "sunlight feeds the leaves." This difference is primarily one of what formal feature?
Diction
The words "bat" and "pat" differ by a single phoneme. Which phoneme changes? What are they called?
/b/ and /p/. They are a minimal pair.
What does it mean to be aberrant?
atypical, abnormal, etc.
15X POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME 3 OLIVIA RODRIGO SONGS: "Olivia Rodrigo, arguably the greatest artist of all time, wrote her recent album about her breakup for her fans."
Identify every appositive and prepositional phrase.
Appositive: "arguably the greatest artist of all time"
Prepositional: "of all time" / "about her breakup" / "for her fans"
"Jesus nearly blocked the whole goal, his enthusiastic expression and evidence of effort, sweat beading down his forehead, motivated his team."
What kind of imagery is most present in this excerpt?
Visual (arguably olfactory)
"Antonio has a heart of gold."
Analyze the sentence for formal features.
It contains a metaphor comparing Antonio's heart to gold.
Why are "ship" and "sheep" a minimal pair?
Only one phoneme is different: the vowel.
What language do the following words come from?
beef, mutton, veal, pork
French
Come up with a sentence in which a prepositional phrase acts adverbially.
Ex. I walked to the park.
"After Michael left the bathroom, it smelled as though meat had rotted in stagnancy since English itself was born."
What imagery is most prevalent here?
Olfactory
TRIPLE POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME WHAT SONG THE LYRICS ARE FROM, DOUBLE POINTS IF NOT:
"And it feels like medication
And it's good for me, I'm sure
But it don't matter how your love feels anymore."
Analyze what formal features are present in the excerpt as well as grammatical errors.
the cure by Olivia Rodrigo
Simile - love is compared to medication because of how it's "good for [her]".
"don't" is not the correct conjugation of the verb "to do" for the subject "it".
This idea is a morpheme that cannot exist without another morpheme. Examples include "un" in unhappiness.
bound morpheme
DOUBLE POINTS: Act obsequiously for 30 seconds. If your obsequiousness is sufficient, you will be rewarded points.
(listen)
"After the storm near the coast, the fishermen returned to the harbor."
1) Identify each prepositional phrase, if any.
2) What does each prepositional phrase modify?
3) What part of speech is each prepositional phrase?
1) After the storm / near the coast / to the harbor.
2) After the storm modifies "returned", near the coast modifies "storm", to the harbor modifies "returned".
3) After the storm and to the harbor are adverbs. Near the coast is an adjective.
"The trumpet's sharp notes pierced the silence."
What kind of imagery is present?
Auditory
"I spin Pokestops in Pokemon Go. I live in Pokemon Go. I exist solely in Pokemon Go."
What formal feature is most present in the excerpt?
Epistrophe
If we took the word "disestablishmentarianism" and added "anti-" to the beginning, what would we call this process?
derivational morphology
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
What did Shakespeare mean when he said this?
Being brief = having wit.
"My friend Sarah was 6'7."
1) Does an appositive phrase appear in the sentence?
2) Why does Sarah not have commas around it?
1) Yes
2) Sarah is essential information and is thus not separated by commas.
In "The violin sang golden ribbons across the room," two sensory domains are used. Name them as well as the term for merging imagery.
Auditory, and visual. Synesthetic.
DOUBLE POINTS: Analyze the following lyrics from Olivia Rodrigo's song stupid song:
"You're a spark in the dark and my clothes all caught aflame...I'm a car speeding down the boulevard without a brake...I'm a heart made of wax and I'm melting in the sun / I'm a thread on your shirt that is coming undone."
What formal features are present and what do they serve to accomplish?
There is anaphora and metaphors.
1) Metaphor - A spark in the dark symbolizes hope. Fire quickly spreads, like the speaker's love for their lover. Their clothes catching flame is an extension of the metaphor and could symbolize vulnerability.
2) Metaphor - A car speeding down a boulevard without a brake is dangerous and controllable like the speaker's love for their lover.
3) Metaphor - The wax is melting from an external force the speaker's love can protect them from it or allow it happen.
4) Metaphor - Up to interpretation: arguable.
DOUBLE POINTS: /s/ /iz/ and /z/ are all _____ of the morpheme "-s".
allophones
Make a sentence using three vocabulary words we've talked about.
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