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Mark Twain

Mark Twain. March 14, 2013. Homework.

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Mark Twain

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  1. Mark Twain March 14, 2013

  2. Homework Mark Twain wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Using the ideas from the previous questions, write about how fiction might be “less strange than truth. Conclude with a statement on how this quotation illuminates the novel or sheds light on the plot of the novel or the novel as a whole. Due Monday: Read 32-35 Vocabulary 32-35

  3. Vocabulary 32-35 Forlorn 32 Grope 32 Oblivion 33 Waylay 33 Consequence 33 Clamorous 34 Spectacle 34 Conspicuous 35 Insipid 35 Clad 35

  4. Do Now Vocabulary and Reading check 29-31 Vocab 32-35

  5. Visual Details: Mapping out the Action One way Twain gives his story the impression of realism is through well-plotted descriptions of action. With sharp details, he helps readers visualize or mentally picture the action of his story.

  6. Visual Details: Mapping out the Action As you read the passage below, try to visualize the action that takes place. A noise fell upon his ear. He [Huck] was all attention in an instant. The alley door closed softly. He sprang to the corner of the brick store. The next moment two men brushed by him, and one seemed to have something under his arm. It must be that box! So they were going to remove the treasure… he would stick to their wake and follow them… They moved up the river street three blocks, then turned to the left up a cross-street. They went straight ahead, then, until they came to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took. They passed by the old Welshman's house, half-way up the hill, without hesitating, and still climbed upward. Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry. But they never stopped at the quarry. They passed on, up the summit. They plunged into the narrow path between the tall sumac bushes, and were at once hidden in the gloom.

  7. Visual Details: Mapping out the Action Match the letter to the place. Then, we will draw Huck’s route. Alley door Summit of Cardiff Hill Old Welshman’s house Sumac bushes Brick store Cross street Old quarry River street

  8. Simile & Metaphor: Coloring in Descriptions Authors often use comparisons to make descriptions more colorful or vivid Simile Metaphor

  9. Simile & Metaphor: Coloring in Descriptions List five examples of comparisons from the passage and decide if it is a simile or metaphor.

  10. The mouth of the cave was up the hillside -- an opening shaped like a letter A. Its massive oaken door stood unbarred. Within was a small chamber, chilly as an ice-house, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat. It was romantic and mysterious to stand here in the deep gloom and look out upon the green valley shining in the sun... By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. This main avenue was not more than eight or ten feet wide. Every few steps other lofty and still narrower crevices branched from it on either hand -- for McDougal's cave was but a vast labyrinth of crooked aisles that ran into each other and out again and led nowhere. …Then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled web-work of names, dates, post-office addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke)… Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone.

  11. The Plot Unfolds: What are the most significant events in the novel so far?

  12. Answer the following questions in your notebook How has Twain chosen to pace the story? Is it too fast-paced and too fantastical? Is it realistic and believable? By drawing together a series of events and tall tales, is the novel the ultimate tale?

  13. Homework Mark Twain wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Using the ideas from the previous questions, write about how fiction might be “less strange than truth. Conclude with a statement on how this quotation illuminates the novel or sheds light on the plot of the novel or the novel as a whole. Due Monday: Read 32-35 Vocabulary 32-35

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