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Subwork from Tuesday - "Fire and Ice" can be found at this link http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/opinion/sunday/dowd-fire-and-ice.html?_r=1

SOAPSToneR Maureen Dowd Political Column Assignment

Directions: Carefully and actively read the Maureen Dowd column “Fire and Ice”, making annotations as you read (you may write on this document!).

Then, complete a SOAPSToneR for it. Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, Tone, Rhetorical Terms

Be sure that you write at least two complete, full, complex sentence to answer/address each component of SOAPSTone.

For the R – Rhetorical Terms, try to find at least three examples of EACH of the following, and explain the effect of each example:

a) Diction (look especially for extreme, emotional, or interesting language)

b) Parallel structure

c) Sentence variety

d) Juxtaposition or contrast

e) Allusion

f) Humor

g) Figurative language

h) Facts, examples

Sub work for Tuesday: Read Buckley's essay "Why Don't We Complain" from 50 Essays (you can also access it at this link

http://www.smartercarter.com/Essays/Buckley%20-%20Why%20Dont%20We%20Complain.html)

Answer the questions in 50 essays that follow the text

Today:

Warm-up: •Write each word and its definition. Then come up with an example or sentence.

•1) ornithological (6) - of or pertaining to the scientific study of birds

•2) beatnik (28) a person who rejects the mores of an established society and indulges in exotic philosophizing, sort of like Jack Kerouac or Ken Kesey

•3) apocryphal (33) - pointlessness; lack of usefulness or effectiveness

•4) interpolation(60) - an alteration of a text by inserting foreign matter

•5) extraneous(60) - existing on or coming from the outside

6) burlesque(62) - a literary or dramatic work that mocks or ridicules another

Classwork: Bloodthirsty of final AP test passage

Homework: t-z vocab due Monday