Week of 10/19-10/23 Vocab and Readings

Continue work on Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye projects.


Finish reading your book by Friday.There will be a quiz on Friday about the vocabulary words and the books.


Vocabulary for this week: Literary Terms

generic conventions
genre
prose
poetry: lyric dramatic epic narrative
drama: tragedy comedy farce melodrama
hyperbole
homily
imagery: visual auditory tactile gustatory olfactory
inference/infer
invective
irony: verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony

Readings for Monday, Oct. 26 in The Bedford Reader

Maya Angelou Champion of the World pg. 93
Brent Staples Black Men and Public space pg. 180
Gloria Naylor The Meanings of a Word pg. 406


Check online for quizzes on books.