Day 65 – Irony, “The Sniper”, and Appositives

Agenda Warm Up Irony “The Sniper” Appositives R&J Closure

Objectives Understand and Identify figurative language in Romeo and Juliet Understand and identify irony in fiction. Homework: Study for AP exams. Fiction Test on Friday

Warm Up – Point of View Write the numbers 1-4 on your paper. You will read 4 different views of the same story. Write the Narrative point of view that is being presented in the story. Give a 1-2 sentence explanation as to how you came up with your answer.

1. Weary in every limb, the ant tugged over the snow a piece of corn he had stored up last summer. It would taste mighty good at dinner tonight. A grasshopper, cold and hungry, looked on. Finally, he could bear it no longer. “Please, friend ant, may I have a bite of corn?” “What were you doing all last summer?” asked the ant. He looked the grasshopper up and down. He knew its kind. “I sang from dawn till dark,” replied the grasshopper, happily unaware of what was coming next. “Well,” said the ant, hardly bothering to conceal his contempt, “since you sang all summer, you can dance all winter.” HE WHO IDLES WHEN HE’S YOUNG WILL HAVE NOTHING WHEN HE’S OLD

2. Weary in every limb, the ant tugged over the snow a piece of corn he had stored up last summer. It would taste mighty good at dinner tonight. It was then that he noticed the grasshopper, looking cold and pinched. “Please, friend ant, may I have a bite of corn?” asked the grasshopper. He looked the grasshopper up and down. “What were you doing all last summer?” asked the ant. He knew its kind. “I sang from dawn till dark,” replied the grasshopper. “Well,” said the ant, hardly bothering to conceal his contempt, “since you sang all summer, you can dance all winter.”

3. Cold and hungry, I watched the ant tugging over the snow a piece of corn he had stored up last summer. My feelers twitched, and I was conscious of a tic in my left hind leg. Finally, I could bear it no longer. “Please, friend ant,” I asked, “may I have a bite of your corn?” He looked me up and down. “What were you doing all last summer?” he asked, rather to smugly it seemed to me. “I sang from dawn till dark,“ I said innocently, remembering the happy times. “Well,” he said, with a priggish sneer, “since you sang all summer, you can dance all winter.”

4. The ant tugged over the snow a piece of corn he had stored up last summer, perspiring in spite of the cold. A grasshopper, his feelers twitching and with a tic in his left hind leg, looked on for some time. Finally, he asked, “Please, friend ant, may I have a bite of your corn?” The ant looked the grasshopper up and down. “What were you doing all last summer?” he snapped. “I sang from dawn till dark,“ replied the grasshopper, not changing his tone. “Well,” said the ant, and a faint smile crept into his face, “since you sang all summer, you can dance all winter.”

Answers 3rd Person Omniscient 3rd Person Limited 1st Person 3rd Person Objective

Irony

The Sniper

Background This story is set in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1920s, during a time of civil war. Republicans: desired all of Ireland to be totally free from British rule. Free Staters: desired compromise with Britain. The Irish Civil war tore families apart: child against parent, sister against sister, and brother against brother.

The Sniper Get into your pairs. Everyone, download a copy of “The Sniper” and the worksheet for it. Read and annotate the sniper for elements of fiction: Plot elements Theme Characterization Symbolism Irony Point of View Fill out the worksheet while you are reading.

Conflict Conflict: struggle between opposing forces. Man vs. Man: the struggle exists between the Republican sniper and the Free Stater sniper.

Point of View Point of View: the perspective, or outlook, from which a writer tells a story. Third person limited: restricted to one character (the Republican sniper) and observes only what he sees, hears, feels, or does. Other types: First person: the narrator tells the story from his own point of view, saying “I did this” or “I did that.” Second person: the book itself addresses the reader, as if the reader is an active character in the book. For example, “You are walking down the street.” Third person omniscient: narrator can see everything and everywhere, even relating the thoughts of all of the characters.

“Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared.” Simile: a comparison of two unlike things that uses the word “like” or “as” “Machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms.” Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as” “Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared.” “The sniper could hear the dull panting of the motor . . . His bullets would never pierce the steel that covered the gray monster.” Personification: attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman. 3rd period

Mood Mood: the atmosphere of a literary work intended to evoke a certain emotion or feeling from the reader. The mood of “The Sniper” is nervous and suspenseful. O’Flaherty keeps you reading to find out what comes next. The reader feels the suspense and becomes nervous when the Republican sniper is shot and he has to make a plan so that he can both live and kill the Free Stater sniper on the opposite rooftop.

Irony Irony: a contrast in expectations and reality. The irony of “The Sniper” is situational. Situational irony: an event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the reader. Neither the reader nor the Republican sniper expects the two snipers to be brothers fighting against each other.

Theme One of the possible themes of “The Sniper” is that war has no boundaries.

Act I Scene I Download the guide from my website and complete as you are reading act I. You will be graded as we go through the reading. Make sure you fill out each question.

Characters: I need a… Narrator: Sampson Gregory Abraham Benvolio Tybalt First Officer Old Capulet Lady Capulet Old Montague Lady Montague Prince Escalus Romeo

Take out your R&J books Start reading act I scene I. Remember to annotate for: Theme Symbolism Imagery Figurative Language Plot

Closure - 3,2,1 Write: 3 things you learned about irony today. 2 examples of appositive phrases. 1 question you have regarding the lecture.