English Exam Study Notes - Hailey Grieco PDF

1. The Lottery is a story where they use people\'s sacrifices for a good crop season. Tesse and her family participate in this tradition. The tradition starts with a black box and the head of each family picks a piece of paper from the box. Whichever paper has the black dot means th...

1. The Lottery is a story where they use people\'s sacrifices for a good crop season. Tesse and her family participate in this tradition. The tradition starts with a black box and the head of each family picks a piece of paper from the box. Whichever paper has the black dot means that a person in their family will be the sacrifice. They will be stoned. Themes in *The Lottery*: - - - 2. Sylvia was decorating a box. She had not been seen for a while because she was ill and living with her aunt. She went to her outhouse to get wallpaper for her box and got bad flashbacks. She left to go to the box-social after this (an event where women make lunch boxes that the men have to bid on). Sylvia's neighbour bid on her box because he recognized the wallpaper. In the box it was a stillborn baby and she hated him for raping her. She killed the baby she got pregnant with by poisoning herself with berries. Themes in *The Box-Social*: - - 3. The family is poor. The wife sells her hair to buy an accessory for her husband's watch. The husband sells his watch as a comb for his wife. Themes in *The Gift of The Magi*: - 4. The family is poor. The wife is greedy and her husband wants her to go to a ball. She refuses because she did not have a nice dress. He buys her a dress but now she wants a necklace. She borrowed one from her friend. After the ball she loses the necklace. They work hard for a long time to buy a new necklace to replace it. She is old now and she sees her friend again and is told the necklace was fake. Themes in *The Necklace*: - - - 5. **Simile:** A comparison using like or as. **Metaphor:** A comparison without using like or as. **Alliteration:** repetition of the same letter or sound at the start of words. **Imagery:** describing something using the five senses. **Pathetic Fallacy:** When the environment reflects what is happening in the story (rain=sad). **Hyperbole:** Exaggeration to enhance a story. **Personification:** Giving human-like qualities to something non-human. **Allusion:** Indirect reference to something (talking about cupid). **Julius Caesar:** 1. **Pathos:** Evokes pity/sadness using emotion (e.g. Antony acted sad when Caesar died to get Rome on his side). 2. **Logos:** Evokes facts using logic (e.g. when Antony pulled out Caesar\'s will to persuade Rome). 3. **Ethos:** Appealing to an audience using character or credibility (e.g. Antony talking about Brutus and his credibility to make the audience like him more). **The Chrysalids:** 1. 2. - - -