Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Plato HW due 10/26

Read (and annotate) Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” multiple times.

Term: Oxymoron
Allegory
Zeugma
Antithesis
Induction
Analogy
Anecdote
Vocab:
            Virtue
Innate
Hedonism
Abstraction
             pensive
             ambivalence
            Indulgence
Asceticism
Impediment
             Divine
             Dejected
             prodigy
       Paltry
Keen
Inversion
Dazzled
Morose
single-mindedness

In your reading journal, focus on the following things:
  1. Vocabulary you need to know to understand the allegory.  Collect as many words from the reading that you need and gather their definitions and any sample sentences or examples that you need in order to make sense of the allegory.

Split the next two questions over your one page journal entry:
  1. Respond to question 4 on page 299.
  2. Explain in a paragraph why this is called an allegory.  You might identify the allegorical representations and the message.

Complete SOAPSTone, of course

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