Match the description of place with the correct vocabulary word related to university life.

Write out a complete sentence to describe the time. Write out the numbers.  Please include: de la mañana/de la tarde/ de la noche for full credit. Please include the correct form of the verb SER. Cut and paste the accents if needed:   á  é  í  ó  ñ ¿Qué hora es? 4:45am  [BLANK-1]

Write out a complete sentence to describe the time. Write out the numbers. Please include: de la mañana/de la tarde/ de la noche for full credit. Be sure to include the correct form of the verb SER.   Cut and paste the accents if needed:  á é í ó ñ ¿Qué hora es?   NOTE:  It is 2:30 PM    2_30 clock.jpg   [BLANK-1]

VERBS.  The lecture on verbs divides verbs into three categories, the most effective of which are vivid verbs.  Explain what a vivid verb is and be sure to compare vivid verbs to the two other categories of verbs.   Definitions: 3 points  Read the following passage from Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman”:              At first they threw mud and rocks at the house.  Then they threw eggs and began slaughtering our stock.  We could hear the animals scream their deaths—the roosters, the pigs, a last great roar from the ox.  Familiar wild heads flared in our night windows; the villagers encircled us.  Some of the faces stopped to peer at us, their eyes rushing like searchlights.  The hands flattened against the panes, framed heads, and left red prints.           The villagers broke in the front and back doors at the same time, even though we     had not locked the doors against them.  Their knives dripped with the blood of our animals.  They smeared blood on the doors and walls.  One woman swung a chicken, whose throat she had slit, splattering blood in red arcs about her.  We stood together in the middle of our house, in the family hall with the pictures and tables of the ancestors around us, and looked straight ahead. Identify four vivid verbs in the above passage:             Example #1:             Example #2:             Example #3:             Example #4: Now answer this question: What does Kingston’s verb choice in the above paragraphs reveal about the subject she is describing?  What connotations do her verbs imply about this situation?        Identification and questions: 9 points

  What dialogue will you be using in your paper? Answer in complete sentences.   

SYMBOL.  Define “symbol” and explain the differences between public and private symbols.   In her essay, “Shooting Dad,” Sarah Vowell conveys her dominant theme by relying on symbols.  Identify what you feel is a particularly important symbol (remember that people aren’t symbols).  List four public and four private meanings behind this symbol, and answer this question: what does this symbol reveal about Vowell’s primary struggle?  Note, too, how it supports the theme. This means that you also have to identify Vowell’s theme.          Definitions: 3 points                                                  Questions: 9 points

DENOTATIONS/CONNOTATIONS.  What is diction?  Distinguish between denotations and connotations by providing two contrasting characteristics of each.                    Definitions: 3 points  Read the following passage from Brad Manning’s essay, “Arm Wrestling Dad”:             My feelings have changed, though.  I don’t giggle anymore, at least not around my father.  And I don’t feel pressured to compete with him the way I though necessary for years.  Now my father is not really as strong as he used to be and I am getting stronger.  This change in strength comes at a time when I am growing faster mentally than at any time before.  I am becoming less my father and more myself.  And as a result, there is less of a need to be set apart from him and his command.  I am no longer a rebel in the household, wanting to stand up against the master with clenched fists and tensing jaws, trying to impress him with my education or my views on religion.  I am no longer a challenger, quick to correct his verbal mistakes, determined to beat him whenever possible in physical competition.  What is the subject of this paragraph and what is the theme? Now find three examples of specific NOUNS in the above passage.             Example #1:             Example #2:             Example #3: Now select one of these words and provide a denotative definition and then give at least four connotations for the same word. Noun selected: _______________________________________ One Denotative Definition:                                                            Four Connotative Definitions: How does this word and its connotations help Manning to convey the theme of this paragraph as well as the theme of his essay?                                                                          Identifications and questions: 9 points

Why does the aunt decide to give birth in the pigsty?  Note: there is more than one more correct answer to this question.  To earn full credit for this question you must pick all of the correct answers and none of the incorrect ones.

What are the circumstances that make the aunt’s pregnancy especially unforgiveable?  To earn full credit for this question you must select all of the correct answers and none of the incorrect ones.

How does Orwell himself feel about the job that he does as a police officer in Burma?