The Pardoner's prologue.
1. The Pardoner's Tale is a moral tale. What is the moral? (line 5-8)
The moral is that he have learned a lot and what he peach is always the same.2. What does the Pardoner do for a living? (line 23-25)
He pardons people's sins.3. What is the Pardoner's attitude toward those who listen to him preach? (line 19-22)
He preaches to them but if they don't listen he don't really care if they die none of what he said won't matter.4. What is the irony in what the Pardoner does?
He pardon's people's sin but he is sinning himself.
Read pp 144-151 and answer the seven questions written in blue in the margins.
The Pardoner's Tale
1. How might the rioter's drinking be affecting their judgment and behavior?
Since the rioters are drunk they are disrupting the village searching for death. Upon finding death the rioters plan to kill death even though it is impossible.
2. What accusations against the old man does the young man make?
The young man accuses the old man of being a spy for death and working with him to attempt killing the younger people.
3. Do you think the young men will be blessed by fortune?
Yes, I beleive the young man will be blessed by fortune. The youg man said that it's clear that fortune has betowed us this treasure to let us live in jollity and pleasure.
4. What does the young man's plan suggest about human nature and the desire for money?
The young man plan shows that humans will fight and kill for the pleasure of money.
5. Why does the devil have influence over the young man?
The devil has persuasion to lure the young man from his kind thoughts and fill them with sorrow and perdition.
6. Why does the the pardoner say that the young men ''received their due''?
The pardoner said that the young men received their due because they sinned and suffered in the end.
7. The pardoner reminds the other pilgrims that death may come to them at any time. Why does he emphasize this point?
The Pardner is emphasizing that even with all the fortune that the pilgims have they can still die at any moment.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
#6 Prodigal Son
1. Have you ever been accused of something you didnt do?
Once I was accused of taking 50 dollars out my mom wallet, but later that day she found out that it was my little sister. When she told my other little sister, she said she had found 50 dollars in the house, but really took it out my mom wallet.
2. Define the following words: Parable, Repetition, Credible, Inference
Parable: A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth religious principle or moral lesson.
Repetition: The act of repeating.
Credible: Able to be believed, convincing
Inference: The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
3. In line 21 why do you think the son's words are repeated?
In that line he said it to his father face to face.
4. What values does the parable suggest are important?
The parable suggest that forgiveness is important and understanding.
5.Explains how the characteristics apply to this story?
The characteristics of a parable is a short story designed to teach some truth or a moral and that exatly was the prodigal son was it teaches some lesson about forgiveness and it also was a real short story.
6. If you were in the father's place how would u have reacted?
I would have been real upset and not help my son at first to teach him a lesson but I would end up helping him because thats my son.
Once I was accused of taking 50 dollars out my mom wallet, but later that day she found out that it was my little sister. When she told my other little sister, she said she had found 50 dollars in the house, but really took it out my mom wallet.
2. Define the following words: Parable, Repetition, Credible, Inference
Parable: A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth religious principle or moral lesson.
Repetition: The act of repeating.
Credible: Able to be believed, convincing
Inference: The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.
3. In line 21 why do you think the son's words are repeated?
In that line he said it to his father face to face.
4. What values does the parable suggest are important?
The parable suggest that forgiveness is important and understanding.
5.Explains how the characteristics apply to this story?
The characteristics of a parable is a short story designed to teach some truth or a moral and that exatly was the prodigal son was it teaches some lesson about forgiveness and it also was a real short story.
6. If you were in the father's place how would u have reacted?
I would have been real upset and not help my son at first to teach him a lesson but I would end up helping him because thats my son.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
#9 Selected Poem
1. Compare the two poems. How are they alike? What is the tone? What is the imagery? What is the symbolism of each poem. Write a paragraph comparing the two and cite lines from the poem to support your answer.
The two poems The lamb and The Tyger are very similar they are both in forms of questions the author is asking the lamb and the Tyger Who made thee and What Immortal Hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry? as of to ask who made you? what human hand or eye had the nerve to create such a fearful balance of form. the tone of this two poems are smooth and anxious to find the creator of this two animals. I believe the symbolism of these two poems is that of spirituality its talking about how beautiful we all are and who created us as in talking about god.
2. Compare To an athlete Dying young pg 965 to one and twenty pg 964 these are two separate views on youth. What is the advice of the wise man? what was the advice in To an athlete dying young?
In one and twenty the wise man's advice was to stay true to your self don't always give your all to something because you might get hurt and in To An Athlete Dying Young I believe the advice was that don't always count on people cause some of them are with you though the good times celebrating with you but when the bad times comes you don't see them to help you through it.
3. Read Do Not Go Gently Into The Good Night- 1088 What are the images of nature in this poem? What does the speaker mean by the good night? What does this poem mean to you? Write a paragraph.
4. Go to wikipedia and read the summery of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. After reading the summary, go to page 765 and read lines 610-617. how do these lines represent the moral of the poem?
The two poems The lamb and The Tyger are very similar they are both in forms of questions the author is asking the lamb and the Tyger Who made thee and What Immortal Hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry? as of to ask who made you? what human hand or eye had the nerve to create such a fearful balance of form. the tone of this two poems are smooth and anxious to find the creator of this two animals. I believe the symbolism of these two poems is that of spirituality its talking about how beautiful we all are and who created us as in talking about god.
2. Compare To an athlete Dying young pg 965 to one and twenty pg 964 these are two separate views on youth. What is the advice of the wise man? what was the advice in To an athlete dying young?
In one and twenty the wise man's advice was to stay true to your self don't always give your all to something because you might get hurt and in To An Athlete Dying Young I believe the advice was that don't always count on people cause some of them are with you though the good times celebrating with you but when the bad times comes you don't see them to help you through it.
3. Read Do Not Go Gently Into The Good Night- 1088 What are the images of nature in this poem? What does the speaker mean by the good night? What does this poem mean to you? Write a paragraph.
4. Go to wikipedia and read the summery of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. After reading the summary, go to page 765 and read lines 610-617. how do these lines represent the moral of the poem?
#10 The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
1. Find examples of situational irony.
The king expects amyas, his closest friend, to be saddened by his death. instead he finds that amyas is already busy trying to win favor with the new monarch. on the other hand, the king expects his jailed enemy to be gleeful about his death, but instead he overhears his enemy expressing regret.
2.Think about the people in the room with the king. Did anything happen that would foreshadow any events? The people in the room with the king realized that he was a bad person.
3.This story has several elements of a folktale. list them
Theres a spirit.
Theres a moral to the story.
The king has a missin to looking for three people.
That would like for him to live.
4. Write a paragraph explaining what this story is about.
The king is dead, Long live the king, is about a king that becomes very sick. a spirit came to him and told him to find three people that would spare his life. the king went to his wife only to find out that she was cheating on him, so they seperated. so the next person he to find was his bestfriend, then he found out the wife was cheating on him with the bestfriend. Everyone in the kingdom realized how much of a bad person he was.
The king expects amyas, his closest friend, to be saddened by his death. instead he finds that amyas is already busy trying to win favor with the new monarch. on the other hand, the king expects his jailed enemy to be gleeful about his death, but instead he overhears his enemy expressing regret.
2.Think about the people in the room with the king. Did anything happen that would foreshadow any events? The people in the room with the king realized that he was a bad person.
3.This story has several elements of a folktale. list them
Theres a spirit.
Theres a moral to the story.
The king has a missin to looking for three people.
That would like for him to live.
4. Write a paragraph explaining what this story is about.
The king is dead, Long live the king, is about a king that becomes very sick. a spirit came to him and told him to find three people that would spare his life. the king went to his wife only to find out that she was cheating on him, so they seperated. so the next person he to find was his bestfriend, then he found out the wife was cheating on him with the bestfriend. Everyone in the kingdom realized how much of a bad person he was.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Macbeth
Define:
Blank verse: Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameterSoliloquy: An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play.Monologue: A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
In act four, Macbeth meets with the witches. Macbeth learns three more prophecies that foreshadow his life to come. These prophecies are an armed head, a bloody child, and a child grown with a tree in his hand. This foreshadows Macbeth's death.
Blank verse: Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameterSoliloquy: An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play.Monologue: A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
In act four, Macbeth meets with the witches. Macbeth learns three more prophecies that foreshadow his life to come. These prophecies are an armed head, a bloody child, and a child grown with a tree in his hand. This foreshadows Macbeth's death.
The Rocking Horse Winner
1. If you bet $5 on a horse race and your horse wins 50 to 1, how much money would you win?
2. Note the reference to Paul's eyes. How do they reflect his mental state?
You just win $5.
2. Note the reference to Paul's eyes. How do they reflect his mental state?
IT REFLECTS HIS MENTAL STATE BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT HE IS CRAZY AND ANXIOUS
3. What can the reader infer about the mother in the story based on the descriptions of her background, marriage, and relationship to her children?
SHE MARRIED FOR LOVE AND THE LOVE TURNED INTO DUST.SHE HAD LITTLE INCOME AND WASN'T VERY LUCKY. BECAUSE IF "YOU WERE LUCKY YOU HAD MONEY". AND SHE DOESN'T SHOWS MUCH LOVE FOR HER CHILDREN.
4. What is the setting of the story?
A RICH COUNTRY HOUSE IN ENGLAND
5. Identify a simile that is used to describe Basset.
A SIMILE THEY USE TO DESCRIBE BASSETT IS " BASSETT WAS SERIOUS AS A CHURCH ,SO THEY COMPARING HIM TO A CHURCH.
6. Why does Paul's gaze make Uncle Oscar uneasy?
PAUL GAZE MAKES UNCLE OSCAR FEEL UNEASY BECAUSE THE LOOK OF PAUL EYES IS UNNATURAL AND IT MAKES HIM FEEL AS IF SOMETHING BAD IS GONE TO HAPPEN.
7. Compare Pal's behavior at the racetrack with that of the Frenchman. Identify the irony in the two characters conflicting behavior.
They are both wild in the head.
8. What do Paul's eyes turning to stone and his mother's heart turning to stone symbolize?
It symbolizes Paul's death.
9. How would you describe Paul's relationship with his mother?
9. How would you describe Paul's relationship with his mother?
Paul's relationship with his mother isn't perfect. Instead its one sided. Paul consumes all his time in energy in finding luck. After his mother tells him ,"If you are lucky you have money." Throughout the story Paul disparately seeks attention and approval from his mother.
10. Why is this ironic--"If you are lucky, you have money" in the light of how the story ended?
10. Why is this ironic--"If you are lucky, you have money" in the light of how the story ended?
Its ironic because in the end Paul's family ends up having money therefore becoming lucky.
A Modest Proposal
1. Why is the title an example of verbal irony.
The title of swift's essay is an example of verbal irony, for the proposal is hardly modest
it's totally outrageous. swift's irony is not an end in itself, he used it to exposed who he saw as deep truths.
2. Imagine that you are the editor of an 18th century newspaper. to help your staff decide whether to print this story, write an emailin which you list the pros nd cons of publishing it.
To whom it may concern: publishing this newspaper will cause either two outcomes. people will love it and buy more of it or people will dislike it and not buy any more of it.
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