10th Literature and Notes

The narrator of a poem is known as the __________.

How does voice impact tone?

I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons. . . . Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Ireland and so did his wife. He was the son of small farmers, neither rich nor poor, who had lived on one landhold and in one stone house for many hundreds of years.

Source: Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. New York: Penguin Group, 1952. Google Books. Web. 16 May 2011.

Based on the excerpt, what is the point of view of the narrator?

Voice:

Narrator:

Speaker:

First Person:

Third Person Objective:

Third Person limited:

Third person omniscient:

Which point of view allows the narrator to see into the heart and mind of only one character at a time?

What is meant by “tone” in literature?

How does Voice impact Tone?

How does Tone impact Voice?

What is meant by “credibility”?

When evaluating a narrator’s credibility, a reader should consider __________.

Nigerian storytelling has historically been a(n) __________ tradition.

What impact has the Nigerian Civil War had on Jonathan’s point of view

Student B reads the following excerpt from “Civil Peace”:

“At first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the Coal Corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what. The only thing he did find out in the end was that that little house of his was even a greater blessing than he had thought. Some of his fellow ex-miners who had nowhere to return at the end of the day’s waiting just slept outside the doors of the offices and cooked what meal they could scrounge together in Bournvita tins. As the weeks lengthened and still nobody could say what was what Jonathan discontinued his weekly visits altogether and faced his palm wine bar.”

After reading the excerpt, Student B writes this: “Jonathan realizes how lucky he is when he observes some of the ex-miners eating from Bournvita tins and sleeping outside the offices of the Coal Corporation.”

Which type of evidence describes the support in this student’s response best?

Why is Jonathan so happy that his family has “five heads” on their shoulders?

student B reads the following excerpt from “Civil Peace”:

“At first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the Coal Corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what. The only thing he did find out in the end was that that little house of his was even a greater blessing than he had thought. Some of his fellow ex-miners who had nowhere to return at the end of the day’s waiting just slept outside the doors of the offices and cooked what meal they could scrounge together in Bournvita tins. As the weeks lengthened and still nobody could say what was what Jonathan discontinued his weekly visits altogether and faced his palm wine bar.”

After reading the excerpt, Student B writes this: “Jonathan realizes that he is not going to get a job or any help from the Coal Corporation and must depend on his own devices to make money.”

Which type of evidence describes the support in this student’s response best?

Nigeria is a country in __________.

Chinua Achebe is considered by some to be __________.

Amenable:

Windfall:

Paralysed:

Inaudibly:

Commiserate:

Indigenous:

Secede:

Postcolonial:

Explicit Detail:

What can be inferred by Jonathon Igwegbu’s reaction to the damage to his house?

What are explicit details?

Which excerpt illustrates Achebe’s use of dialect?

Why does Achebe use dialect in his story?
I. to imitate the original sound of the spoken words
II. to add realism to the story through the sound
III. to help the reader distinguish between the characters

Figurative Language:

Figure of Speech:

Imagery:

Sensory Images:

What is a metaphor?

What is a simile?

Why use them? (The above two. Metaphor and Simile)

Which formula is used to indicate simple past tense?

Which tense shows progression or continuation of actions or states of being?

Which tense allows you to express the order of two or more events occurring during the same time period?

Which formula is used to indicate perfect progressive tense?

Which sentence correctly sequences the underlined verbs? ( I had to put – beside them because it will not underline them for me)

“The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly” (Rockwell).

Select the indirect quotation that correctly sequences the verbs.

Which sentence correctly sequences the underlined verbs? (I had to put – beside them because it will not underline them for me)

The __________ is used for an event that continues to occur at the present moment in time.

Which tense allows for the sequencing of two or more noncontinuous events that occur in the same time period?

h tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time?

Which sentence correctly punctuates a nonessential appositive phrase?

Student Lucinda Gonzalez studies the composition of black holes that are located in the Milky Way.

Identify the appositive or appositive phrase.

Hipparchus, originator of trigonometry, began measuring distances between celestial bodies in the 2nd century BCE.

Identify the appositive phrase.

A white dwarf, a dense dead star, burns through its hydrogen before it can grow into a supernova.

Identify the nonessential appositive phrase.