1885- Cuban Giants become the first African-American professional baseball team!
Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Monday, February 4...another copy below
In class:
Please turn in your imagery packets that we worked on in class on Monday and Tuesday, if you have not already done so.
imagery assessment
vocabulary review
Musée des Beaux Arts and The Second Coming vocabulary Quiz on Monday, February 4.
1. 1. verbal irony - The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean. Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
2. 2. situational irony -The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. The fire station burns down while the firemen are out on a call.
3. 3. dramatic irony -When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character. Girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went (the audience knows the killer is there, but she does not).
4. martyr- (noun)- a person who is killed for his beliefs; to martyr (verb) – to kill someone for her beliefs
5. 5. gyre- (noun)- a spiral or vortex
6. 6. falconer- (noun)-a person who keeps, trains, or hunts with falcons, hawks, or other birds of prey.
7. 7. conviction- (noun)- strongly held belief
8. 8. revelation- (noun)- a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way
9. 9. Spiritus Mundi – from the Latin meaning world spirit
10. sphinx- (noun)- from Greek mythology -a winged monster having a woman's head and a lion's body
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