Monday, 1/23: Reading

* Pray

* Collect J30

* Assign J31 (due block day)

1. Terms and Introductions
* Paradox
* Overstatement
* Understatement
* Irony
* Litotes
For the following, see Turco Advanced Rhetoric and Nonfiction
* Disquisition vs. discourse
* Socratic dialogue
* Didactic
* Letters vs. belles lettres
* via negativa vs. via affirmativa
* Creative nonfiction
* Metafiction
* Metanonfiction
* Narrator
* Argument

2. Story: Take notes of Ch. 4 introduction: Theme.  Read Tobias Wolff: "Hunters in the Snow"
- 1.  In a well-developed paragraph, explain the theme of this piece using specific examples from the story.

3. Take notes on Perrine's Poetry Ch. 7: Figurative Language III: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony; read the chapter.
- Questions: Choose two poems, one of five or more questions.  Choose separate centuries.

4. Austen
- Read -Vol. 2, Ch. 2 or ch. 25 (depending on your text)

- Answer any 10 questions between vol. 1 ch. 20 and vol.2 ch. 2 (or between ch. 20-25)

* Discussion

* Work in Class

* Bleak House

HW: Work on J31