Monday, February 4 irony practice /vocabualry quiz

Did you turn in the Imagery practice that we worked on in class last Monday and Tuesday? If not, you have a missing and a zero marked in parent connect.  Fix that!
  

Coming up: vocabulary quiz on Monday, February 11 Carbon Footprint (class handout / copy below)

In class: vocabulary quiz Musee des Beaux Arts and The Second Coming (another copy below)

              Irony Practice: verbal, situational and dramatic

              

Name____________________________________

Irony practice…..identify each of the following as to whether they are an example of verbal irony, situational irony or dramatic irony.

1_________________________________Sara is trying to avoid a water gun fight that her brothers are having and she falls into a puddle.

2._____________________________ In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet is only asleep-not dead-but Romeo does not, and he kills himself.

3._____________________________ A student who goes to the restroom every day during class asks the teacher if he can go. Her response is "Sure, it's not like we do anything important in this class."

4._____________________________ In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, the men are surrounded by an ocean of water, but they are dying of thirst

5._____________________________ “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”  from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

6._____________________________ The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin tells of a wife who learns that her husband is dead. She feels a sense of freedom as she thinks about a life without restriction. Then, he returns (he wasn't dead after all) and she dies of shock.

7.____________________________ In the movie Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear thinks he is a real space ranger but the other toys and the audience knows that he is just a toy.

8.____________________________ On the way to school, the school bus gets a flat tire and the bus driver says, "Excellent! This day couldn't start off any better!"

9.___________________________ In The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry, the husband sells his watch to buy his wife combs for her hair and the wife sells her hair to buy her husband a chain for his watch.

10.________________________ In Beauty and the Beast, an animated Disney movie, Belle refuses to marry Gaston by saying "I just don't deserve you!"

11._________________________ In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, we know that the old woman bringing the apple is the wicked queen who wants to kill Snow White, but she does not. She purchases the apple, takes a bite, and falls.

12._________________________ In the Star Wars movies, Luke does not know Darth Vader is his father until Episode V, but the audience knows sooner.

13. __________________________A mother tells her son she enjoyed watching that horror movie "about as much as a root canal."

14.__________________________ A man who owns a lawn maintenance business cannot get grass to grow in his own backyard.

15._________________________ In Beauty and the Beast, the audience knows from the beginning of the movie that the beast is a prince, but Belle does not.

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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

New vocabulary

Carbon Footprint vocabulary        quiz on Monday, February 11

1.   capacity (noun)- the maximum amount that something can contain or produce

2.   theoretical (adjective)- hypothetical, conjectural, based on or calculated through theory rather than experience or practice

3.   optimistic (adjective)- hopeful and confident about the future.

4.   pessimistic (adjective)- tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

5.   malnourished (adjective)- suffering from malnutrition. Not receiving the proper nutrients to thrive

6.   proliferation (noun)- rapid increase in numbers.

7.   fjord (noun)- a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliff

8.   force majeure (noun)-LAW: unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract.

2.irresistible compulsion or greater force.

9.   consensus (noun)- a general agreement

10.      zeitgeist (noun)- defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.