Thursday, March 6, 2008

WUP for Friday, 3/7

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." --Indira Gandhi

Define your idea of a leader. Put yourself in the position of someone who leads and then of someone who is being led. Does the change in roles change your definition of a leader? How?

Lit Term

FORESHADOWING

An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story. Not all foreshadowing is obvious. Frequently, future events are merely hinted at through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters.

Foreshadowing frequently serves two purposes. It builds suspense by raising questions that encourage the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being foreshadowed. Foreshadowing is also a means of making a narrative more believable by partially preparing the reader for events which are to follow.


Vocab

aura:
(n.) that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality
SYNONYMS: ambiance, atmosphere

Punctuation

Underline (or if typing use italics) each word in the title of a book, movie, or a television show.
Ex. I had read Jurassic Park before I saw it in the movies.
Ex. Family Guy is the funniest show on television.
Ex. He gave me the book The Complete Poems of Robert Browning.

For the title of individual poems, short stories, or episodes in a television series put the title in quotation marks.
Ex. My favorite poem is "The Road Not Taken."
Ex. In the Collected Short Works of Poe, I liked the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" the best.
Ex. Of all the Star Trek shows I liked "The Last Warrior" the best.

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