Get out Noun WS and finish #15.
Literary Term:
Allegory: A narrative (story) that acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level (EG: "The Veldt" is an allegory for the dangers of television-especially on youth.)
"The Desensitization of Twentieth-Century Man" by Norman Cousins (1959)
Find a well written sentence that you like.
What do you think? Opinions?
Brutality in last paragraph- Like in "The Veldt".
Irrationality in last paragraph- Like in "The Third Expedition".
2 questions: (DON'T FORGET PAGE NUMBERS FOR QUOTATIONS).
- Write 1 sentence (or portion there of) from the essay that you thought was well written and explain why.
- Respond to something in the essay with which you strongly agree/disagree.
SECOND BLOCK
"The First Men on Mercury" by Edwin Morgan
How is this a poem?
Free Verse poem. (No rhyme, no meter).
8-10 syllables per verse.
Not very poetic.
Transfer languages.
Course Question #3
On poem write what you think is the message.
What story does it relate to, which we have read this year? - "Earth Men" or "The Third Expedition".
Root quiz 4 words- Cross off MOR and MUS.
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