Silent Reading

For 1 and 2...provide a definition and an example from the passage, from another part of The Scarlet Letter, or from outside the text, as appropriate.

1. a) parallel structure (1)
b.) exclamatory sentence (2)
c) hyperbolic language (3)
d) What is a metaphor? What is an allusion? Although there are not allusions in this passage, find a Biblical allusion in The Scarlet Letter. (4)
e.) rhetorical question (5)

2). a) euphemistic language (6)
b)  mollyfying tone (7)
c) lack of specificity (8)

1.     Parallel structure

2.     Exclamatory sentences

3.     Hyperbole

4.     Metaphor

5.     allusion

6.     Rhetorical question

7.     Euphemism

8.     Mollifying 

9.     Metonymy

10.   Oxymoron

11.   Paradox

HW: For chapters XV - XVIII, post one discussion question and respond to another.  Also, from chapters XV-XVIII post the vocabulary word, the sentence and page number where you found it, and the definition of the word. Respond by no later than 7am tomorrow to get credit. (2 points)

Also add the following to your Rhetorical Glossary terms (look these up and add defintions and examples to your glossary):

understatement
simile
analogy
abstraction

Friday we will have another Scarlet Letter close-reading quiz and also some content questions from chapters 11-18 (quote identification).  You may use your Glossary of Rhetorical Terms on the quiz.

9/11 Discussion of Scarlet Letter Topics (25 mins) Silent Reading (25 mins)

9/12 SL XI-XIV (95-120) Disc

9/13 SL Reading Day Post disc quests

9/14 N.C. OPEN HOUSE SL XV-XVIII (120-141) disc

9/15 TBD