Journal entry #17 - What do you think you will remember most about this school year? Imagine it's now 20 years down the road and you are looking back through your life. What will stand out from this year?
Vocab week 17:
• autonomous (adj)– (ŏ tŏn’ ə məs)
1 acting independently or having the freedom to do so
2. independent, self-governing, sovereign, self-ruling, self-sufficient
• besiege (v) – (bē sēzh’ )
1. to surround with armed forces; lay siege to, overwhelm, encircle
• forthwith (adv) (fōrth wĭ /θ/’)
1. the situation or time frame within which an action or event is
required to be done
2. immediately; without delay, at once
• exacerbate (v.)- (ĕgs ăs’ r bāt)
1. worsen, to make more bitter, violent, or severe
2. aggravate, intensify
• revert (intr.v)- (rē vrt’)
1. Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs
2. to go back to or to return to a former condition, practice, subject
or belief; to relapse, regress, slip back
Literary Terms: Pay special attention to the last 4, which are the most commonly used and known.
In the broad sense, general rhyme can refer to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, and to the use of such similar-sounding words in organizing verse. Rhymes in this general sense are classified according to the degree and manner of the phonetic similarity:
syllabic: a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily contain vowels. (cleaver, silver, or pitter, patter)
imperfect: a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (wing, caring)
semi-rhyme: a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (bend, ending)
oblique (also called slant or forced): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb)
assonance: matching vowels or vowel sound. (shake, hate; mate, maid) Assonance is sometimes used to refer to slant rhymes.
consonance: matching consonants. (rabies, robbers) (Notice both s endings share the /z/ sound.)
half rhyme (or sprung rhyme): matching final consonants, particularly final consonant clusters. (bent, ant)
alliteration* (also known as head rhyme): matching initial consonants, in this case the digraph /sh/: (short,ship).
Spelling 17A & Hawley's definitions:
Pavilion – Park Stand
Peaceable - Harmonious
Peremptory – Before (Can also mean one who is haughty and/or spoiled as an adult)
Persevere – Continue on
Personnel – Staff
Picnicking – Ants in the food
Plagiarism – Cheating
Persuade – cajole
Poinsettia – Christmas plant
Potpourri – smelly flowers
Classes:
1st - This is the last week to work on semester projects, which are due on Friday. You have all week to finish them up in class.
2nd - We finished "Earnest" and did vocab and journal.
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th - Vocab week 17, Spelling 17A, and Journal. See above.
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