Hand back score sheets for SL 1-4 content and vocab.  Content quiz - if you missed 2 or 3, I gave those to you.  For vocab quiz, if you missed 1, 4, 8 or 9, I gave those to you. 

Quiz today on content of chapters 5-10.

Silent reading of chapters 13&14 for tomorrow. Please write one inferential question for each.

Also, please write down the following in your composition notebook/familiarize yourself with the following rhetorical terms:

antecedent— the word, phrase, or 

clause  to which a pronoun refers

euphemism— an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant 

exclamatory sentence— a sentence expressing strong fee ling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark 

hyperbole— intentional exaggeration to  create an effect

paradox— an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth 

metonymy— substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it  (“The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting]”)

mollify - verb (used with object), 

mollified, mollifying.

1.to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.

2. to mitigate or reduce; soften:

“to mollify one's demands.”

Obama moved to mollify them, although how well it worked is unclear; bothDunn and Romer have since left the 

administration.

Read Parallel Structure hand-out