Figurative Language
“You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you” (6).
Irony
“Oatley would know - he is a cognitive psychologist at the University of of Toronto.”
Ethos
What are the three essential parts of a sentence?
Subject: Noun or Pronoun
Predicate: Verb
Complete Thought
When Mildred cannot answer the question, Montag sarcastically thinks it is “funny not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife” (43).
What’s the error?
When Mildred cannot answer the question, Montag sarcastically thinks it is “funny not to remember where or when you met your husband or wife” (43).
What is cruel optimism?
The idea that big, systemic problems have easy, individual solutions.
“Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. It was not the hysterical light of electricity but - what?” (5).
Metaphor & Imagery
“Oatley [a cognitive psychologist] helped conduct a study that linked reading fiction to better performance on empathy & social acumen tests.”
Ethos & Logos
What would you call a subject and predicate that don’t express a complete thought?
Fragment or Dependent Clause
When Clarisse tells Montag “people don’t talk about anything” (31) he starts to realize how antisocial people are.
What’s the error?
When Clarisse tells Montag “people don’t talk about anything, “ he starts to realize how antisocial people are (31).
Explain Hari’s thinking that “the medium is the message.”
The type of medium used conveys a message: book versus twitter.
What are the 4 different types of allusions?
Historical
Biblical
Mythological
Literary
“Participants who knew the most fiction writers on the author recognition test scored far higher on the measurements of social acumen.”
Logos & Pathos
What is the difference between an independent and dependent clause?
An independent clause has a subject, predicate, and complete thought; a dependent clause is not a complete thought.
Because of the violence in society, Clarisse explains that she is “afraid of children [her] own age. [They] kill each other.” (Bradbury, 28)
What’s the error?
Because of the violence in society, Clarisse explains that she is “afraid of children [her] own age. [They] kill each other” (Bradbury 28).
What is negativity bias?
People are disproportionately attracted to negativity more than positivity.
What do you call a repeated symbol and what was an example of this in the novel?
Motif & Birds/Butterflies
“Found that the parts of the brain used for inferring thoughts and feelings of others - a phenomenon called “mentalizing” - light up in an MRI when people are processing stories.”
What’s missing?
Ethos
Besides a sentence fragment, what are the three other types of sentence structure errors we studied. Name & Explain.
Comma Splice: IC, IC.
Fused: IC IC.
Run-On: IC (FANBOYS) IC.
Faber tells Montag to be a martyr, “Do [his] own bit of saving, and if [he] drown[s], at least die knowing [he was] headed for shore” (82).
What’s the error?
Integration Created a Comma Splice
What did B.F. Skinner study and how did it relate to Stolen Focus?
Pigeons & Operant Conditioning
What is the difference between IRONY and a PARADOX?
Irony describes something that happens that is opposite of the expected result, can be sarcasm (verbal irony), dramatic irony or situational irony.
A paradox is a direct contradiction in the same sentence, for instance "it was alive and it was dead" or "less is more"
What (ethos/pathos/logos) should never stand alone and why?
Logos
What are the two ways to join two independent clauses together in the same sentence?
;
, FANBOYS
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
School is supposed to help; however, students “never ask questions, or at least most don’t. [Teachers] just run the answers at you bing, bing, bing” (Bradbury 27).
Clarisse feels that school quells interaction and socialization because students “never ask questions, or at least most don’t. [Teachers] just run the answers at [students] bing, bing, bing” (Bradbury 27).
Which is better and why? Identify two reasons
B: More context & Personal pronouns are adjusted
What 2 cities did Johann Hari visit that impacted his research?
Include both the name of the city and the state it is in.
1) Memphis, Tennessee
2) Provincetown, Massachusetts