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
