Today you’ll need: journal, writing utensil, planner.
Plan your Week
Monday
Tuesday
Due
CW
1) Vocab
2) Review
of lit
terms
HW
Vocab
sentences
2) Lit term
poster
1) POV activity
Wednesday Thursday
Friday
Vocab
IRA #2
Have story read
Symbolism
Short Story
Group work:
reading/analy “Cask of
sis
Amontillado”
Read “Cask of
Amontillado”
Connection to
outside reading
assignment
Due Monday
Vocabulary List 10
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Contiguous
Environs
Arbitrary
Arbitrate
Axiom
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Bigoted
Cogitate
Crux
Dogmatic
Fallible
Review
• For this unit we will be referring to character
development, plot, setting, theme, etc. Please
review your notes from the beginning of the
year for character development, plot, and
setting.
Modes: pre-established literary forms.
• Archetype: Specific, well-established designs, patterns
of action, character types that are identifiable in a wide
range of literature
– Ex: Hero archetype, femme fatale (female character
compelled to love but responsible for the downfall of a
significant male character).
• Stereotype: characterization that adheres to the
assumption that some aspect of a person is predictably
accompanied by certain traits, actions or values widely
assigned to a general group of people: reducing a
person to a specimen of the group with no additional
personae.
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Related to humor
• Satire: a general category of humor which
presents a subject with a critical attitude using
wit in order to try to improve mankind by
making fun of vice or weakness. The goal is
typically to point out the hypocrisy of his/her
target.
• Parody: a satiric imitation of a work or author
with the intent to ridicule the author, the
ideas, or work (Spoofs).
Word play
• Euphemism: the substitution of a mild or less negative
word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one. “Pass away”
instead of “die.”
• Innuendo: a strongly implied, parallel meaning to a word
or phrase: a double meaning. IE: make someone an “offer
he can’t refuse.”
• Idiom: specific, recurrent, and widely-understood phrase
in a language that metaphorically articulates a concrete
idea. IE: “kick the bucket” “a piece of cake.”
• Pun: an explicitly humorous play on words whose sounds
are explicitly meant to resemble other words (to treat a
homonym as a synonym).
Miscellaneous
• Colloquial: Ordinary language, slang or
vernacular common to a location/culture:
“sub” for sandwich (where in other areas it’s
called a hero, hoagie).
• Jargon: Specialized or technical language of an
established trade or discipline. IE: “rushing the
quarterback” “uploading a virus”
• Cliché: An overused phrase that has lost the
force of its meaning and power. The use of
cliché often indicates an insecure or uncreative
writing. “Love conquers all.”
Isn’t it Ironic?
• Irony: Expression through words or events conveying a reality
radically different (usually opposite) to literal meaning, appearance or
expectation.
– Verbal irony: speaker’s meaning is different from/opposed to what
she/he is actually saying. IE: “Could there be anything more important in
choosing a college than its proximity to the beach?”
• Sarcasm: a narrow form of verbal irony expressing sneering or personal
disapproval in the guise of praise.
– Situational Irony: An occasion in which the outcome is significantly
different from what was expected or considered appropriate: a
professional pickpocket has his own pocket picked just as he was in the
act of picking someone’s pocket. It’s not just bad luck, or coincidence.
– Dramatic Irony: the audience has knowledge which is denied to the
character that often gives ominous or foreshadowing meaning to a
character’s words or actions. IE: King Oedipus, who has unknowingly
killed his father, says that he will banish his father’s killer when he finds
him.
Irony in literature
• Irony: in many cases, when irony is used in
literature, it exploits readers’ expectations
when expected occurrences are different from
what actually happens- closely related to
situational irony.
• In other cases, it’s used to add meaning to a
character’s actions/dialogue (dramatic irony).
Assignment
• Your job is to find a way to show what your word
means on a “poster,” including multiple
examples found in literature or in life.
• Be creative- you must include a visual.
• I will be putting up the different posters in the
classroom.
• Due Tomorrow.