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UNITS 7 AND 8
Biography andShort Fiction
UNIT 7Biography
• Types• Teaching Help 5A• Personality• God, human
Introduction
• 8. B• 9. C• 10. B• 11. D• 12. A• 13. C• 14. D
PART TWO• 1. F• 2. B• 3. A• 4. D• 5. E• 6. C• 7. G
PART ONE
Appendix R
• Humorists, cartoons• End• Own, man• casually
About James Thurber
• Poke, playful, panic• Own• Humor, irony• - not, running, plausible, ludicrous• - logically, ridiculous• ?
About “The Day the Dam Broke”
• Simile• Allusion• Metaphor• Offending• Get all the facts before acting, pointing out the tendency people have to join a crowd or mob
About “The Day the Dam Broke”
• Biographer• artful• Goal, character
About Plutarch
• Shakespeare’s• Gods, Caesar• Brutus• Animal, heart, dream• 23• Metaphor• Simile• Decision, crossing, cannot• conquered
About the “Life of Caesar”
• Biography• Fiction• Fiction• Connected• Flashback• Struggle• External• - himself
Terms from Crossword
• Setting• Emotion• Attitude• Main• - not• Opponent• - evil• Changes• Flat
Terms from Crossword
• Complexity• Same• Unhappiness• Happiness
Terms from Crossword
vs.
• Organized• Flashback• Conflict• Villain• Setting• Central, Scripture
Questions to Ask Yourself
• Scotland• Father• Different• Worldly, France• Fanny, married• Money• married
About Robert Louis Stevenson
• Background• Samoa• Tales• Enjoyment• Plots, widely
About Robert Louis Stevenson
• French• Suspense, locked
About “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door”
Freytag’s Pyramid
• Suspense• Impression, bride, feet, blue, marry• White, age• Hero, climax, love• Metonymy• Simile• Paradox, alliteration• Foreshadowing• Dramatic• personification
About “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door”
• Voice, popular• Mental, epilepsy• Father’s, sister• Christian• Laureate, people• Monocle, head• Experimentation, OCD
About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Purity, not• Common• Beauty• Understatement• Not• They are Romantic types who act nobly in trying circumstances.
About “Lady Clare”
• No, Lady Clare should not deceive her fiancé.• Down, rank• Though in the heart of Lord Ronald,
Clare has always been a lady, the title is ambiguous because we learn that Lady Clare is not truly a lady by birth; however, when the poem ends, we learn that she will become Lady Clare the next morning.
About “Lady Clare”
• Scotland• Sherlock Holmes• + Bell• + Killed• Hound• Short• popularized
About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• - plotted• Fair• Observations people, places, and events; Notices every clue—even the small ones; Thinks quietly and then acts• Quick eye, brilliant mind, ability to arrive at facts from small clues, ability to link facts together into a solution
About Sherlock Holmes
• Dr. Watson, personal friend of Holmes with insight into his character and mannerisms• Experience with Holmes • Helps with the surprise endings—If Holmes narrated, the ending would be given away far too quickly • Makes Holmes appear clever instead of arrogant• The reader identifies with Dr. Watson.
About Sherlock Holmes
• Simile• Helen Stoner’s plea for help from Sherlock Holmes• Holmes and Watson’s vigil at Stoke Moran and their subsequent battle with the speckled band
About “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
• Julia Stoner’s sudden death before her marriage, the description of inquest following her death, Dr. Roylott’s heritage, Roylott’s time and trouble in India, his erratic behavior at Stoke Moran and the subsequent brawls with his neighbors, his menagerie, Mrs. Roylott’s will, the recent engagement of Helen Stoner, the unexpected “remodeling” of Stoke Moran• The gypsy “band”• synecdoche
About “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
• Science• Self-, 1,000• Theme, imagination, God• Survival• not
About Ray Bradbury
• Internal, 23,000• Internal• Man vs. himself• Job vs. Joby, Joby vs. his fears• April• Not• The general cried too, the general said that Joby is the heart of the army. Joby then imagines himself “general of the army when the general’s left behind.
About “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”
• Joby is thus emboldened by his imagination to face the fear of dying and act in a calm resolute manner.• Drum, peach, toy, youth, anxiety• - onomatopoeia• - personification, metaphor• - personification• - allusion• - simile, alliteration, assonance• - synecdoche- the bones represent soldiers, metaphor, consonance• - metaphor
About “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”
• Religious, economic• God• Fate, problems• Journalist• Best• realistic
About Stephen Crane
“A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. / 'The fact has not created in me / A sense of obligation.”
• Uncertainty, 75• Unable• Theme, gray• Indecision• pistol
About “The Gray Sleeve”
• Architect• Positive, “lost,” great, badly• Writing• Pessimistic• Novelist, pessimistic• Shakespeare• 900, wife, nature, living, heart
About Thomas Hardy
• Humorous, dialect• He cannot decide whom he wants to marry.• Immature, deceptive, handsome, indecisive• “a handsome girl,” jealous• Tony’s supposed fiancée, pouting, impatient, gullible• Abrupt, flattering, pretty, fickle• Moral, concerned about his family reputation, has common sense
About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver”
Freytag’s Pyramid
• We can get into trouble when we are not honest. Make a decision instead of waffling.• Hardy is taking a critical look at the subject of immature love and
the lack of wisdom inherent in entering marriage lightly.• Tone• Uncertainty• - situation• - dramatic• - situation• - Dramatic
About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver”
• Title• He needs to grow up a little. If he deceives during courtship, he will probably deceive Milly during their marriage. He also does not make decisions logically, but rather bases them on emotions and circumstances.
About “Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver”
• Dreamy• Children• rejected
About Walter de la MareSilverSlowly, silently, now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way, and that, she peers, and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees;One by one the casements catchHer beams beneath the silvery thatch;Couched in his kennel, like a log,With paws of silver sleeps the dog;From their shadowy cote the white breasts peepOf doves in silver feathered sleepA harvest mouse goes scampering by,With silver claws, and silver eye;And moveless fish in the water gleam,By silver reeds in a silver stream.
• Most• Chilling• Truth, truth• Mirrors, life• Chivalric• - onomatopoeia• - Alliteration• - Assonance• - Alliteration• - consonance
About “The Listeners”
Audio of “The Listeners”
• Suspense• To emphasize the path of the basketball• - Alliteration• - Assonance• - Personification• - synecdoche
About “Foul Shot” by Edwin A Hoey
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