3/30/17

Reminders:
Lit 8 poetry vocab test - 4/5
Lit 7 drama vocab test - 4/11
Lit 6 myth vocab test - 4/11

3/27/17

English 8 - Thursday, 3/30 - Test on tense and voice.

3/24/17

English 7 - Tuesday, 3/28 - Test on tense and voice.
Tuesday, 4/11 - Drama vocab test - soliloquy - euphemism.

Soliloquy: A speech in which a character talks to himself or the audience and reveals what he is thinking. Longer than an aside.

Scrim: A light, semi-transparent curtain.

Protagonist: Main character of a story, can be one person or a group of people.

Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces. Can be internal or external.

Parody: A humorous mimicking of a serious piece of literature.

Flashback: A literary device where an event from the past is inserted into the present. Seems as if it is happening in present time. Shows how the present is influenced by the past.

Foreshadowing: A device where the author gives clues that hint at later events in the story. Makes surprise endings more believable.

Euphemism: A nice way of saying something that is not usually nice (fat = big bones).

3/21/17

Lit 6 - Tuesday, 4/11 - myth vocab on legend and myth.

Myth Vocabulary

Legend:

·        Traditional story about the past

·        based on real people/events

·        passed down by word of mouth.

·        Details increasingly exaggerated.

·        Have fantastic details, larger than life characters, amazing feats.

·        Reveals culture's attitudes/values.

Myth: 

·        Stories about gods and heroes.

·        Deals with right/wrong.

·        Explains world in human terms.

·        Explains natural occurrences.

3/20/17

Literature 8 - Wednesday, 4/5 - Poetry vocab test. Rhyme - imagery.

Rhyme: The repetition of sounds in words that appear close to one another in a poem.

End Rhyme: The repetition of sounds in words which occurs at the end of two or more lines.

Refrain: A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that are repeated regularly in a poem.

Infer: A reasonable conclusion one can draw on clues or evidence given.

Figurative language: Language that is meant to be interpreted imaginatively, not literally. (I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.)

*Simile: A comparison between two basically unlike things using the words "Like" or "AS." (She is like the sun.)

*Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things saying something is something else. Doesn’t use "Like" or "As." (She is the sun.)

*Extended metaphor: A comparison that makes more than one continued point of comparison.

*Imagery: The use of vivid language to describe people, places, things, and ideas. Creates a mental picture. Suggests how things look and also how they sound, smell, taste, and feel.

3/10/17

Reminder: 7th and 8th grade have vocab tests on Tuesday, 3/14.

3/6/17

Lit 8 - Tuesday, 3/7 - Journal check. Students should have 5 entries.
Lit 6 - Reminder - Nonfiction vocab test on Wednesday, 3/8/17.

3/6/17

Literature 6 - Reminder that the nonfiction vocab test is Wednesday, 3/8/17.