The Villainy Awards

With Valentine's Day looming, I would like to introduce an alternative to all the warm and tender hearts and flowers-- The Villainy Awards! We will all posts nominees for Best Villain, Young Villain, Villains you end up rooting for, and well, any other categories you come up with. Once we have our nominees, hosts and hostesses, we will devise a menu and musical program. So, to get the ball rolling, I will begin (as an example of a suitable post):

For Best Villain: I nominate Mr. Lindner from A Raisin in the Sun for his loathsome "offer" to the Younger family.

You may draw from any of our class texts, from 11th grade texts and from your independent novels. No movies/TV shows/works of non-literary merit.

(imagine devilish emoticon here)

Words for 2/5/10 test

quintessential
definitive
insuperable
epitome
surmountable
epitome/epitomize
x is antithetical to y...
Methuselah
coquette
debacle
brouhaha
hue and cry
veritable
cornucopia

Bon mots: week of Jan 25-29

Wagnerian
caustic
wit
pithy
repartee
salacious
adversarial
rancorous
remunerative
coffers
symbol, theme, motif (know where these terms either diverge, converge, or just plain merge!)
anthropomorphism v. personification
polysyndeton
asyndeton
existentialist

Humor Part II - Satire

Research the difference between Horatian and Juvenalian satire, and even just satire if you are unclear about that. Don't hate me, but wikipedia does a good job of explaining it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Now post your comments about satirical humor. What is its purpose and have you enjoyed any such humor (share an example). Why or why not did you enjoy it?

The ineffable....What is "funny"?

As we start the new term with comedy, I wanted to start with the question of what makes us laugh and why? Simply post a TV show, movie, book, or comedian you find "funny."

Fresh, sparkly AICE words for test 1/22/10

Easing in with a short list, seeing as it's a short week!
:-)

Ernest
earnest (you must be clear on the difference between these two homophones)
chiding
sprightly
promontory
satire
forlorn
vignette
billowy
visage
benefactor/benefactress

New Words - Test on 01/08/10

magnanimous
mercurial
myriad
neophyte
paragon
polemic
quagmire
recalcitrant
salient
sanctimonious
vapid
cogent
missive
pedagogue
banal
pithy
banter
puckish
mores
malaise