Bluest Eye Presentations/Reading As I Lay Dying/Vocab

 Vocabulary   Literary Terms (Test next MONDAY!):

litotes, loose sentence, metonymy, mood, narrative, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, parallelism (the rhetorical effect it has),  parody, periodic sentence, personification, point of view, prose, repetition, rhetoric, rhetorical modes:

Exposition
Argumentation
Description
Narration

Read for Thursday:
Section 2 (85-168)  in As I Lay Dying and answer study questions on handout
Section 3 over the long weekend for next week (169-end p. 261)

Monday and Wednesday: Bluest Eye Presentations


As I Lay Dying Vocabulary 
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hale	exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health	\
dissociated	having had a relation or connection broken
trifling	lacking in significance or worth
irrevocable	impossible to retract or revoke
censure	harsh criticism or disapproval
rapt	wholly absorbed as in thought, deeply moved
runnel	a small stream
perverse	marked by immorality, resistant to guidance or discipline
lowing	making the throat noise of a cow
flouted	treated with contemptuous disregard
bereavement	state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
gaunt	very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
abject	most unfortunate or miserable, showing humiliation, submissiveness, utter resignation or hopelessness
cessation	a stopping
approbation	official recognition or approval
timbre	the distinctive property of a complex sound
precursor	an indication of the approach of something or someone, a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
ubiquity	the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)
maul	a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges, injure badly by beating, split (wood) with a maul and wedges
portentous	puffed up with vanity, of momentous or ominous significance
nihilist	one who supports a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
opaque	not clear, not clearly understood or expressed
irremediable	impossible to remedy or correct or redress
composite	consisting of separate interconnected parts
keen	having a sharp cutting edge or point, as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
sibilance	a sound having, containing, or producing the sound of the s or the sh in sash
travail	hard work, to labor hard
fulcrum	the pivot about which a lever turns
crest	the top point of a mountain or hill
ethics	moral values and rules, ideas of right and wrong
implacable	impossible to appease
reproach	rebuke or criticism, disgrace or shame, express criticism towards