Due to travel, I will not be able to hold office hours this Wednesday or Thursday. Please email me if you have questions.
Agenda:
1–Weekly journal
2–Vocabulary for our last unit
1-character
2-setting
3-plot
4-narration [narrator: first person, second person, third person]
5-theme
6-symbol
7-metaphor
8-writing style: writing style encompasses such language characteristics as the author’s word choice (diction), tone, grammar, and sentence structure. It can also be thought of as a particular school or genre of writing such as realistic style, modernist style, romantic style, comedic style, journalistic style, scientific style, historical style, autobiographical style, satirical style, and many others.
9-focalizer: the person or entity who is seeing or visualizing the scene; this person or entity is not always the narrator–it is often a character.
10-focal distance:
1. distance between focalizer and the action, or
2. distance between the narrator and the focalizer
11-horizon of expectations
       The “continuous establishing and altering of horizons,” urges the literary critic Jans Robert Jauss in Theory of Aesthetic Reception (1982),
determines the relationship of the individual text to the succession of texts that forms the genre. The new text evokes for the reader (listener) the horizon of expectations and rules familiar from earlier texts, which are then varied, corrected, altered, or even just reproduced . . . the question of the subjectivity of the interpretation and of the taste of different readers or levels of readers can be asked meaningfully only when one has first clarified which trans-subjective horizon of understanding conditions the influence of the text. (23)
3–Discuss “The Lottery” and “Thank You, Ma’ am” in terms of these vocabulary terms.
Homework for Wednesday: Read “Assimilation” and prepare for Quiz 3 by studying the eleven vocabulary terms above and reviewing “Assimilation,” “The Lottery,” and “Thank You, Ma’ am.”
