Tuesday, February 11 vocab quiz


Good morning!

Many of you met me yesterday, but let's make it official! My name is Ms. Camp and I will be Ms. Parker's student teacher for the next few months. 

I am originally from The Bronx, NY and I came to Rochester for college. I graduated in May 2018 with a B.A. in British/American Literature and History and now I am working on my M.S. in Teaching Grades 7-12 ELA and Special Education. My favorite candies are chocolate and Gushers, I drink lots of water, and I love to read mysteries and historical fiction during my very limited free time. I look forward to working with you all 💛👍




In class: Task 1 vocabulary quiz (a copy below)
Once you have completed your vocabulary quiz, you have time to finish the two diction exercises I passed out yesterday (copies below) and the Imagery 1 exercise, which I am handing out in class. (copy below). ALL THREE OF THESE WILL BE DUE AT THE START OF CLASS TOMORROW.
                               

Language is fluid and full of nuance. Writers sculpt language with narrative techniques to create complex ideas and deeper meanings. One of the best ways to do this is through connotation, a literary device that refers to the selection of a word or phrase for its suggested meaning instead of its literal one. It is the difference between referring to an adult as “youthful” versus “childish”: the definition of the words is the same, but the implied meaning is very different.


Name__________________________________
Diction 2
Consider:
Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to
feel for another.
— Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson


Respond in a complete sentence to the following:
1. By using the word antidote, what does the author imply about the inability to feel for
another? ____________________________________________________________________________
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2. If we changed the word antidote to gift, what effect would it have on the meaning of the
sentence?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Diction 3
Consider:
An aged man is but a paltry thing
A tattered coat upon a stick....
— W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Please respond to the following in complete sentences.

1.    What picture is created by the use of the word tattered?
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2. By understanding the connotations of the word tattered, what do we understand about the
persona’s attitude toward an aged man?
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Apply:  (to denote-to define exactly)  (to connote- what is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings, in addition to their literal meanings or denotations.)
List three adjectives that can be used to describe a pair of shoes. Each adjective should
connote a different feeling about the shoes.  After your adjective, explain what your adjective connotes.
1.    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2.    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3.    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Name__________________________________
Imagery 1
Consider:

The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

1. These stanzas from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” show the Mariner’s changing
attitude toward the creatures of the sea. What is the Mariner’s attitude in the first stanza?
What image reveals this attitude? (text)
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2. What is the Mariner’s attitude in the second stanza? Analyze the imagery that reveals
this change. Support your response with text.
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Apply:
Think of a cat or a dog you can describe easily. First, write a description which reveals a
positive attitude toward the animal. Then think of the same animal and write a description
which reveals a negative attitude. Remember that the animal’s looks do not change; only your
attitude changes. Use imagery rather than explanation to create your descriptions.


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TASK 1 vocabulary                     quiz on Monday, 10

1.bungalow (noun)- a small house or cottage that is either single-storey or has a second storey built into a sloping roof
2. barbarous (adj)- savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
3. disillusionment (noun)- a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
4. optimism (noun)- hopefulness and confidence about the future
5. pessimism (noun)- a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen
6. nostalgia (noun)- a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past
7. remedy (noun)- a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury.
8. anecdote (noun)- a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
9. to escalate (verb)- to increase rapidly.

10. hostility (noun)- unfriendliness or opposition

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