Words/phrases for 2/26/10

This week is a different style test. We will discuss it in class:

Given the zeitgeist of her time, Bronte....
Such an epiphanous moment underscores...
In keeping with the concept of the Byronic hero, Rochester.....
The character is forced to rethink his/her schema regarding_____, when .....
A paradigm shift occurs when.....

Music:

Faure's Requiem
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Spring

Art:

Rothko
Monet
Manet

Jane Eyre

State your guiding question and share one key quote or passage of your choice. Explain why you chose the quote.

Vocabulary, art, and music for 2/19/10

The new multi-genre vocabulary test is here!

music:
Ravel's Bolero
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries
Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain

art:
Picasso's Guernica
Caravaggio's Narcissus
Dali's The Persistence of Memory

words:
jejune
subjective
objective
illustrious
drole
assiduous
elucidate
impecunious
acumen
denoument

Words, words, words....(that's from?)

hifalutin
haute couture
haute cuisine
physiognomy
horticulture (You can lead a wh*re to culture, but you can't make her think! -ha ha Dorothy Parker)
canonical texts
extrapolate
zeitgeist (excellent word!)
iconoclasm
fidelity
infidel
Dualism
empiricism