Thursday

Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "prattle" - "odium"
Write a vocabulary story using five of this week's words in context.

Of Mice and Men TEST Monday.
HOMEWORK: Finish Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald and In Another Country by Hemingway
Hemingway's In Another Country

HEMINGWAY. How does Hemingway Write?

What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme

The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
--imagery  The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty
Visual imagery.
--word choice "stiff"=dead--rigor mortis "empty" =soullessness of modern man/disillusionment
fall (impending death) war cold dark, wind blew, stiff, empty
H. likes short, simple words. His words tend to focus more on physical details rather than intellectual connotations.
Types of details are physical details. H. is a physical guy.
--metaphor The deer is a metaphor of . . .
--Narrator's voice
--Types of sentences
--metaphor

FITZGERALD. How does Fitzgerald Write?
Winter Dreams online text found here: Winter Dreams
Homework: finish Winter Dreams and In Another Country
What is the effect of the author's use of literary devices--how does the hand of the artist paint the picture that ultimately leads to theme?
Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but  Dexter Green's father . . .
--imagery  
Types of details
--word choice neurasthenic=weak, tired. Challenging, very specific words that deal with concepts. The
--metaphor
--simile "poor as sin"  Fitzgerald's narration requires an intelligent reader. What does "poor as sin" mean?
The narrator mentally processes what is going on.
--Types of sentences
minimalistic
--Narrator's voice

With H. you have to rely upon the physical description and simple dialogue and find the ideas for yourself.


Vocabulary for Friday: SAT vocab 547 SAT Terms "Prattle" - "odium"