E.B. White: Please review all terms.
For the quiz, you can focus on these terms: Parallelism, metaphor, personification, description, simile, parataxis
Vocab: prominent, subordination, coordination, qualification, progeny, exhilaration, copious, accumulation, gunwale, mere, startled, rapt, anticipation
Journal/essay: Choose one and write an essay response. Clearly, this will be longer than the traditional journal.
- Write an essay in which you discuss the effect of White’s development according to parataxis, i.e., his copious use of “and” as a rhetorical device. Refer to several examples from the text to support your essay.
- Construct a thesis about the nature of epiphany. Use the text of White’s essay and that of two of the following to support your thesis:
- Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
- Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth”
- Vowell’s “Shooting Dad”
- Recall a special place that you regard as fondly as White does the lake in Maine. Write an essay imitating E.B. White that describes that place and delivers a personal insight.
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