Brit Lit:

Today:

We started looking at a letter that Orwell wrote exploring many of the themes and ideas that ended up the next year in 1984:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwell-s-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984.html

I broke you into groups and asked you to make a newspeak version that twists the article that I gave you on jobs and the economy.  We shared these.

We broke into groups and completed the following:

Characterization

--Method used to reveal/describe characters and their traits

Foreshadowing

--Hints of future events

*Irony

--Verbal--narrator/character says one thing, means another

--Dramatic--reader/audience knows things characters do not

--Situational--great difference between purpose of an action and the result

*Satire

--Author’s tone used to ridicule human/societal vice and/or weakness with

intent of causing change

*Paradox

--Statement that seems contrary to common sense yet may be true

War is Peace; Ignorance is Strength; Freedom is Slavery

Symbolism

--Representation of a concept/idea by an object

Metaphor

--Comparison/relationship between two things without using "like"/"as"

Flashback

--Returning to earlier time in order to something in the present clearer

Themes (these must be defined within the terms of the text)

*Totalitarianism

*Freedom vs. Absence of Freedom

*Individualism vs. Conformity

Note: 1984 was written in 1948, three years after the conclusion of WWII.

 

Directions:  Please break into small study groups and give examples of the above terms from pgs 1-122.  you will have 2 days to complete if needed.  The above terms will also be part of you final test on the novel- so please keep this sheet to study from.

 

 

 

 

HW:  Please read the article that I gave you, and up to pg 239 in 1984.