Monday, February 8, 2016

Vowell - due Wednesday

Read Sarah Vowell's "Shooting Dad." Note: if you are using the 4th edition, this piece is not in the book.

SOAPSTone, avoid one or two word answers.  Give thought and express your ideas fully.  

Vocab: Unabashed, wistful, acerbic, self-deprecating, nostalgic, bicker, earnest, tongue-in-cheek,
escalate, lathe, rural, labyrinth, zealous, irreconcilable, culminate, forlorn, indictment, self-abnegation, elicit, philanthropic, indigence, vitality, submerged tenth

Terms: litotes, understatement, cumulative sentence, allusion, anecdote, zeugma, paradox, oxymoron, antithesis, subjunctive

NOTE - HW will NOT be collected for Vowell. I WILL collect discussion questions from Thursday.

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