Monday, September 28, 2009

pattern 2 and 3

2) IC:IC genreal statement to specific statement.
ex. Darwin's « Origin of species» forcefully states a harsh truth: only the fitters srvives.

3) Aseres A,B,C or A,B and C or A and B and C.
ex. with passion, determination, purpose, Linciln fought slavery.
ex. Insane, obsessed, driven to kill, yhe narrator in the « Tell-Tale Heart» thought he was sane.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

loopholed N : a small or narrow opening, as in a wall, for looking through, for admitting light and air, or, particularly in a fortification, for the discharge of missiles against an enemy outside.
protruded V : to project
adorn V : to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, etc.; enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.
endeavor:to attempt; try: He endeavors to keep things neat in his apartment.
noose N: a tie or bond; snare
heed V : to give attention; have regard.
commingled : to mix or mingle together; combine.
famishing V : to starve to death.

Images:Language which describes something in detail, using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation, including visual imagery and sound imagery. Also refers to specific and recurring types of images, such as food imagery and nature imagery. (Not all descriptions can rightly be called imagery; the key is the appeal to and stimulation of specific senses, usually visual. It is often advisable to specify the type of imagery being used, and consider the significance of the images themselves, to distinguish imagery from mere description.)

-Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.

-They tore it away and thrust it fiercely aside, its undulations resembling those of a water snake.

-The humming of the gnats that danced above the eddies of the stream, the beating of the dragon flies' wings, the strokes of the water-spiders' legs, like oars which had lifted their boat--all these made audible music. A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the rush of its body parting the water.

-A strange, roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of Æolian harps.

-As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon

Oscar Wild

Wretched Adj: very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
Throng N : a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
ebbed N: a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
Yale: a male given name
Tomb N :an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
Frowned V :to look displeased; have an angry look
Gutter N : a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Sentence patterns

sentence = complete idea ( S,V) ( simple or complex= 2 IC)
-Clause
. IC = complete idea ( S,V) independent clause
. DC = Incomplete (S,V) dependent clause
ex. 1) CSL has 3200 talented (m)=modifier students (DO=direct object.

-phrase= incomplete idea (no V)
ex.) CSL has 3200 talented students in many different programs(P=prepositional phrase), wich (DC) are really interesting.

Pattern 1 : IC; IC
ex) hard work is only one side of the equation; talent is the other.

Pattern 1a : IC; CA, IC
ex.) The story was not very inetresting ; therefore (CA), it is not worth resdinf.
CA:therefore, however, hence, thus, consequentlly...

Pattern 1B: IC; IC, CC
ex.) ...discover the secret of the tow doors, and she used it to decide the lovers fate.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Oral on 'The lady or the tiger?'

The Lady or the tiger?

Author :- Wrote for adults and children

- Started to publish in 1868

- Lost eye sight

- Died in 1902

- He was a author part of the Victorian aura: talk about virtue and punishing

- Moral essences at heart, but more the years past, more the righter’s made fun of their aura, announcing the end of it.

VOC:

-will : determination

-valour N: determanation in facing danger, courage

-poetic justice: an ideal distribution of reward and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.

-wails V : to make a long, high cry, usually because of pain or sadness

-mourners N :a person at a funeral, griving people

-dire adj: very serious or extreme

-fate N: a power that some people believe causes and controls all events, so that you cannot change or control the way things will happen

-fair adj: pale or good looking

-choristers N :
a group of people who sing together in a choir, either in a cathedral or in a special school connected to a university

-maidens N: a girl or young woman

-the apple of his eye N : very precious person

-unsurpassed : unequalled

-tartling: alarming

-damsels N : a young woman who is not married pretty women

-Glances V: to give a quick short look

-mazes V: a complicated set of rules, ideas or subjects which you find difficult to deal with or understand , labyrinthe

-fangs N : a long sharp tooth

-gnashed : grind

-shriek : a short, loud, high cry, especially one produced suddenly as an expression of a powerful emotion

-anguished : extreme unhappiness caused by physical or mental suffering

What adice would you give the lover boy and why? If he really loves the princess and could not imagine loving no body else, yes he should have listened to what she said. He knows the princess enough to maybe dought the consequences of her jealousy on the decision the princess was going to take.

Speaking critiria

1) Delivery- Loundess, pace, pronunciation, enthusiasm, movement : body, eye contact
2) Content: Introdution - give overview-ask a question-give a statistic-anecdote (joke)-quotation-visual devieces: power point-board-picture
...pick your words carefully...
3)Organisation: -Markers- transitional words (first, second, then, finally)-conclusion (summarize)
4) Language: -Vocabulary-grammar

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
Point of view: The first person

Imagery: "all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones." Sounds:beating of the heart, watch

Metaphor: “I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.” , 'black as pitch' and 'ston dead'

Simile: "evil eye", and "eye of a vulture". heart is like the beating of a drum.

Personification: The use of the term "evil eye" is a personification because eyes can’t be evil. 'death cam in to the room'

Irony: the fact that he says that he is not mad and controls himself...but at the end he loses control and tells everything to the police.