English 2: Novels and Vocabulary

Everyone (even the slowest and most reluctant readers) should be at least finished with Part 1 of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Life of Pi by Monday. You will have until March 5 to finish the novels.

Every set of chapters (however much you are able to read in a 30-60 minute sitting) should have a 2-sentence summary. That means everyone should have at least 12 summaries by Monday.

Vocabulary for the March 2 quiz:

• Criticism: term for works concerned with defining, analyzing, classifying, and evaluating words of literature. Analyzes and evaluates a product.

• Connotation: secondary or associated meanings for a word
• Denotation: dictionary definition of a word

• Ethos: overall disposition or character of an individual; in rhetoric it is validity of an argument (connected to logos and pathos––this term we are focusing on the rhetoric definitions)

• Figurative language: all forms of words that create images (analogy, allusion, alliteration, etc)
• Free Verse: uses common sense and natural expression; must feel like a poem; plays with expectations of readers and poets; poetry with varying line length that does not need to rhyme
• Hyperbole: an extreme overstatement

• Gatekeeper: Person who guards a gateway or task; Sometimes they are part of the villain’s company or sometimes they can become allies or members of the hero’s group (type of archetype)
• Hero: puts the well-being of his people above his own safety and from beginning to end, he learns important skills and changes as a person (type of archetype)

• Humanism: set of beliefs that focus on activities of mankind – mathematics, naturalism, philosophy, and theology