YOU GET A BREAK TODAY: FOR ALL CLASSES

OWING TO COMPUTER PROBLEMS THERE WILL BE NO DICTATION ON MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2007.

THESE ARE THE LITERARY TERMS FOR THE WEEK:


Tuesday, June 19, 2007:

1. Tone is set in literature by conveying an emotion/feeling or emotions/feelings through words. The way a person feels about a an idea/concept, event or another person can be quickly determined through facial expressions, gestures and in the tone of voice used. In literature an author sets the tone through words. The possible tones are bounded only by the number of possible emotions a human being can have.

2. A. Tragedy is a play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end through a tragic flaw or forces beyond his or her control.


Wednesday, June 20, 2007:

1. A tragic flaw is a serious character weakness such as ambition, jealousy, or lust.

2. An allegory is a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface one. Although the surface story or description may have its own interest, the author's major interest is the ulterior meaning. Allegory has been defined as an extended metaphor and sometimes as a series of related symbols.


Thursday, June 21, 2007:

1. A limerick is a five-line poem in which lines 1, 2, and 5 are anapestic trimeters and lines 3 and 4 are anapestic dimiters, rhymedas aabba. The possible source of origin is Limerick, Ireland.

2. An ode, English in origin, is a poem of indefinite length, divided in ten-line stanzas, rhymed with different schemes for each stanza--ababcdecde, written in iambic pentameter.


Friday, June 22, 2007:

1. Synecdoche is the use of the part for the whole. For example, the cause of the Trojan War was said to be the capture of Helen by a Trojan prince. The synecdoche here is stated as "The face that launched a thousand ships."

2. Metonymy is the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. For example, "The chair (meaning the chairman or chairwoman of the group or meeting) recognines Mr. Smith to speak." The "chair" represents the person in charge of the group or meeting. The meaning may also be expressed as the sign for the thing signified.