George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant”, due Thursday, November 17
Terms and Vocabulary (besides the assigned terms, look up any others you are unfamiliar with in the text.)
Vocabulary:
Ambivalence 10. Polemical (review)
Antipathy 11. Didactic (review)
Indifference 12. trivial
Imperialism
Lugubrious
Candid
Reflective
Salutary
Epiphany
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Terms:
Warrant
Claim
Periodic Sentence
Qualifier
Rebuttal
Extended metaphor
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Be sure to complete SOAPSTone
For your journal: Write an essay response in which you discuss the nature of Orwell’s epiphany. Compare how Orwell and two other writers have presented narrative experience that leads a protagonist to enlightenment. Refer specifically to the text of each piece and include those features of style and rhetoric that you consider important. This journal will be longer than other journals you’ve written. Note that you are drafting an essay response.
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