11th Grade Magnet American Literature
The Nitty Gritty #3
QUIZ: Rescheduled due to snow days: B-day, 3/7 and A-day 3/9
Vocabulary- Adversary
- Alienate
- Artifice
- Coerce
- Craven
- Culinary
- Delete
- Demise
- Exhilarate
- Fallow
- Harass
- Inclement
- Muse
- Negligible
- Perpetuate
- Precedent
- Punitive
- Redress
- Sojourn
- Urbane
(use your handout from NG #1 for details)
Semicolons
- Joins two clauses without a coordinating conjunction
- Can be used in a series with commas for clarity
- Independent clause joined together with a coordinating conjunction
- Coordinating Conjunctions: FANBOYS
- Independent clause – use semicolon when no coordinating conjunction.
IMAGERY
Sensory: auditory, visual, gustatory, tactile, olfactory, kinetic, organic
Categories: light, young, color, energy, bitter, harsh, strong, pleasant, cold
Contrast: light-dark; young-old; red-white; energy-apathy; bitter-sweet; harsh-soft; strong-weak; pleasant-repulsive; cold-warm
Online Vocabulary Practice:
The Nitty Gritty #2
Vocabulary- adroit
- amicable
- averse
- belligerent
- benevolent
- cursory
- duplicity
- extol
- feasible
- grimace
- holocaust
- impervious
- impetus
- jeopardy
- meticulous
- nostalgia
- quintessence
- retrogress
- scrutinize
- tepid
COMMAS!
Rule #1 – adverb dependent clauses
- When the Riverwood boys’ and girls’ basketball teams go to the state playoffs they will win!
- In his poem “Thanatopsis” William Cullen Bryant uses a combination of run on lines and caesuras.
- Ernest Hemingway enjoyed fishing hunting fighting and writing novels and short stories.
IRONY
(review and retest)
There are 3 main kinds (verbal, dramatic, situational)
Verbal: Saying something that you absolutely don’t mean, and implying that via intonation (often also called sarcasm)
Dramatic: When something happens in a play/show/song/etc… and only the audience knows (the characters don’t). EX: When you’re watching a movie and you know the detective’s partner is the killer, but he doesn’t.
Situational: When you expect something to happen and the opposite of what you expect to happen happens. EX: I would expect Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” to be full of irony, but it’s not full of irony, it’s just bad luck and coincidental situations.
List examples have we discussed in class:
Online Vocabulary Practice:
The Nitty Gritty
The Nitty Gritty #1
Vocabulary- Adulterate
- Ambidextrous
- Augment
- Bereft
- Deploy
- Dour
- Fortitude
- Gape
- Gibe
- Guise
- Insidious
- Intimation
- Opulent
- Pliable
- Reiterate
- Stolid
- Tentative
- Unkempt
- Verbatim
- Warily
Capitalization and Punctuation: Use your handout rules to fix any errors.
1.before you turn in your essay you must proofread it thoroughly
2.when i was a little kid i loved singing herman the worm
3.reading arthurmillers play the crucible our class learned about the witch trials in salemmassachusetts / Literary Device Spotlight
IRONY
There are 3 main kinds (verbal, dramatic, situational)
Verbal: Saying something that you absolutely don’t mean, and implying that via intonation (often also called sarcasm)
Dramatic: When something happens in a play/show/song/etc… and only the audience knows (the characters don’t). EX: When you’re watching a movie and you know the detective’s partner is the killer, but he doesn’t.
Situational: When you expect something to happen and the opposite of what you expect to happen happens. EX: I would expect Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” to be full of irony, but it’s not full of irony, it’s just bad luck and coincidental situations.
List examples have we discussed in class:
Online Vocabulary Practice: