Tuesday, June 8-Bring your literature textbook to class.  We'll return these to the library.

Wednesday, June 9-Finals period 1 and 2; outside reading logs due (1984 or A Separate Peace).  Final journal packet due (please score yours).  Hand back research essays for period 2.

Thursday, June 10  - Finals period 3 and 4; outside reading logs due (1984 or A Separate Peace) Hand back research essays for period 4.  Final journal packet due (please score yours). 

Friday, June 11- Finals period 5 and 6; outside reading logs due (1984 or A Separate Peace) Hand back research essays for period 6.  Final journal packet due (please score yours). 

Vocabulary #24--SAT Terms and one phobia:
1. maudlin - wallowing in self-pity
2.farcical - absurd, ridiculous
3. provincial - limited outlook; narrow view
4. repudiate - to reject
5. meander - wander from side to side
6. jingoistic - extremely patriotic; nationalistic
7. conflagration - a big fire
8. persnickety - fastidious; fussy
9. garrulous - talkative
10. vivify - enliven
11. garble - distort, confuse, muddle
12. titter -giggle quietly
13. pontificate = speak pompously or dogmatically
14. totter - walk unsteadily
15. Didaskaleinophobia- fear of going to school

Vocabulary #25--AP TERMS

1. genre = the major category into which a literary work fits
2. homily = the term literally means "sermon", but more informally it can include any serious talk, speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice
3. juxtaposition = placing dissimilar items side by side for comparison/contrast
4. pedantic = an adjective that describes words, phrases, or a general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
5. litotes = a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite.  For example, He was not averse to a little conversation, meaning he liked to talk a lot.
6. meiosis = The Greek term for understatement or belitting; a rhetorical figure of speech by which something is referred to in terms less important than it really deserves
7. ad hominem argument = an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect
8. apostrophe = a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love
9. caricature = a prepresentation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or pecularities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
10. invective = an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language
11. inference = to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented
12. periodic sentence = a sentence that represents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.  This independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone.  For example, "Ecastatic with my AP scores, I let out a shot of joy!"
13. sarcasm = from the Greek "to tear flesh"; sarcasm involves bitter or caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something
14. wit = intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights
15. metonymy = a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it; "my wheels" as a substitute for "my car"