Root "Duct"

A link for root words, prefixes, and suffixes.


Heather - look for "duct"

duc, duct  ||   lead   ||   induce, deduce, seduction, conduct, abduct

Study Questions for the Mid-Term

What are the five elements of a good narration?
1. Clear context
2. Thoughtfully emphasized and well-chosen details
3. A logical, often chronological organization
4. An appropriate and consistent point of view
5. A meaningful point or purpose

What is a "clear context"?
When the surrounding details of a story are clear and easy to understand.

What is chronological organization?
Organization based on the order of time

What is "point of view"?
It refers to the grammar in an essay.
I = first person
he, she, they, specific name = third person


How much detail should you include in a narration?
You should have enough detail to illustrate your main point well.

Why would you want to leave details out?
If the details confuse the reader or make them bored you should leave them out.

How do you know what to include?
You should ask yourself why you are telling the story.
Your purpose will tell you what to leave in and what to keep out.

Should you always use chronological organization for a narration?
Not always, sometimes changing the order makes it more interesting and exciting. You can use "flashback" to tell more details about what happened earlier.

What is a "flashback"?
Going back to tell a story about the past.

What is personification?
A KIND of simile or metaphor in which human traits are given to an inanimate object. (An object or thing is spoken of as if it's a person).

Examples:
the sky was crying (rain)
Mother Nature's fury (nature is an angry woman)
The tropical storm slept for two days (a storm is sleeping)
The car groaned into third gear (a car groaning like a person)

What is an example of personification in the Newsweek story?
Mother Nature's fury


What are "figures of speech"?
imaginative comparisons between things that are not the same

The three most common are:

Simile (using the words like or as)

examples:

*My love is like a red, red rose.
*as blue as the sky
*as blind as a bat
*The train sounded like a cow going out of breath.
*She's as light as a feather.




Metaphor (one thing = another thing)

examples:
*All the world is a stage.
*He is a pig.
*The sky is a raven's feather.
*The monkey clawing my back was Teacher's Pet.


Personification (a kind of simile or metaphor - defined above)



What are some figures of speech used in "The Dare"?
*the train sounded like a cow

Can you find 4 of them (figures of speech)?
(answer this for bonus points)

What does each one add to his narrative?
(answer this for bonus points)

Why did Hoffman accept O.T.'s dare when he was twelve years old?
Because he wanted to fit in (to be accepted by his classmates).

Would he accept the same dare today?
No, because he knows it was not smart.

"Today, at thirty-eight, I couldn't be threatened or baited enough to attempt that dive"

Why or why not?
He's wiser.

How does paragraph 4 function in the context of Hoffmann's narrative?
It re-emphasizes his main point. (He ties in his childhood to his adult life and talks about dares in the adult world).

How has Hoffman organized his essay?
It's mostly chronological, though he did change the order of events around for emphasis. (For example, his hook happened later in the story, but his tells it first.)

What period of time is covered in paragraph 2-5?
Elementary school through the 7th grade and the days just before the train story.

In paragraph 6-12?
It describes the day he accomplished "the dare."


What were Hoffman's feelings on the day of his dive under the moving freight train?
Confident and determined...but scared.


Do you think he was afraid?
Yes

How do you know?
He wet his pants.

Hoffman tells his story in the first person. What is a good reason for him to use this instead of third person?
It makes the story more real and immediate. It brings the reader in to the story. It's as if we are there when the story happens.

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One question you can answer here for extra points:

1. What are the four figures of speech used in the essay, "The Dare."

One is about the train sounding like a cow. (This is a simile).

See if you can find any more.

METAPHOR and SIMILE

clipped from www.englishclub.com Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing. This allows us to use fewer words and forces the reader or listener to find the similarities. The word metaphor comes from the Greek word metapherin (meaning "transfer"). The simplest form of metaphor is: "The [first thing] is a [second thing]." Look at this example: Her home was a prison. Difference Between Metaphor and Simile Both similes and metaphors link one thing to another. A simile usually uses "as" or "like". A metaphor is a condensed simile, a shortcut to meaning, which omits "as" or "like." A metaphor creates a relationship directly and leaves more to the imagination. With simile A is like B. With metaphor A is B. simile metaphor Your eyes are like the sun. You are my sunshine. He eats like a pig. He lives like a pig. He is a pig.

Mid-Term Vocabulary - FLASH CARDS

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HAZARDOUS: "Involving risk or danger"

"skydiving is a hazardous sport"

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FATALLY: "With fatal consequences or implications" adv.

"he was fatally ill equipped for the climb"

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FATAL: "Bringing death; Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance"

-Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
-(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

"the fatal day of the election finally arrived"

"such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"

"a fatal series of events"

synonyms: disastrous, calamitous

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Mother Nature

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Word Web - Free English Thesaurus and Dictionary for Windows

Get this free program! It really helps to look up words immediately while you are on your computer or searching the internet. I do it all of the time now. Once you download and install the program, all you have to do is press "control" while you right-click on the word. Try it. It's so useful.

http://wordweb.info/

ARRAY: "An orderly arrangement; an impressive display"

Array, originally uploaded by serakatie.

Mid-Term Vocabulary words

Here are important words for the vocabulary test on Friday. If you click on the links, you will find more links to dictionary websites etc. where you can look up the words.

New List

amid · array · avid · bait · boxcar · cherish · coast · contemplative · convulsive · crony · dare · embrace · enigma · escalate · evaporate · fatal · fatally · fury · fuss over · fuzzy · gaze · gravel · guerrilla · hazardous · idyllic · implicit · instinctively · mother nature · narration · resonate · shard · silhouette · stall · strut · take for granted · teacher's pet · tempt · threaten · vet · vivid · whiff ·

Important words from the old list

abundant · adolescence · adorn · animated · bobbing · bouquet · breeze · carp · · cloaked · contemplative · cottage · drenched · electrified · endeavors · fate · fervently · fragrant · heron · mourn · nostalgia · orchid · organic food · pastel · perennials · plot · poignant · raven ·

CONVULSIVE: "Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm"

Convulsive:

1. Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions";
2. Resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent; "a convulsive rage"; "convulsive laughter."


Examples in my own words:

* The soccer player got a muscle convulsion in his leg because he didn't exercise well.
* You will get nerve convulsions if you go into a cold environment after a shower.

~Tom

(Tom, I changed "convulsive" to "convulsion" and "climate" to "environment"....Ms. W)

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SILHOUETTE: "The dark shape and outline of something or someone

Arabian Night, originally uploaded by creativesam.

silhouette

noun
1. The dark shape and outline of something or someone visible in restricted light against a brighter background.

2. A representation of someone or something showing the shape and outline only, typically colored in solid black.

verb
cast or show as a silhouette.

examples
The castle was silhouetted against the sky.
The mountains stood in the silhouette.

origin;
Named after the French author and politician Etienne de Silhouette.
Later in his life, to save the money,he had a painter drew shadow pictures instead of portraits.This came into fashion and his name spread over.


~Naoko

CONTEMPLATIVE: "Deeply or seriously thoughtful"

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A Great Way to Study Vocabulary

Here is a nice diagram showing word relationships. Learning word relationships will help you remember the words you learn.

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VET, VETERAN, VETERINARIAN - origin

clipped from www.etymonline.com veterinarian animal doctor, 1646, from L. veterinarius "of or having to do with beasts of burden," also "cattle doctor," from veterinum "beast of burden," perhaps from vetus (gen. veteris) "old" (see veteran), possibly from the notion of "experienced," or of "one year old" (hence strong enough to draw burdens). Another theory connects it to L. vehere "to draw," on notion of "used as a draft animal." Replaced native dog-leech (1529). vet (1) 1862, shortened form of veterinarian. The verb "to submit (an animal) to veterinary care" is attested from 1891; the colloquial sense of "subject to careful examination" (as of an animal by a veterinarian, especially of a horse before a race) is first attested 1904, in Kipling.

VET: "A doctor who practices veterinary medicine; A person who has served in the armed forces "

TAKE FOR GRANTED: "Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof"

IDYLL: "A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life"

ENIGMA: "Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; mystery"

EMBRACE: "Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, "

CONTEMPLATIVE: "Deeply or seriously thoughtful"

AVID: "Marked by active interest and enthusiasm"

"an avid sports fan"

ARRAY: "An orderly arrangement; An impressive display"

RESONATE: "Sound with resonance; vibrate"

CARP

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COTTAGE: "A small house with a single story"

see also "bungalow"

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Heron

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Dahlia

Full Bloom, originally uploaded by serakatie.