Princess Bride

After taking notes on character types, watch the movie The Princess Bride. Choose a character to follow.

Decide what type of character they are and provide examples from the movie to help make your case. 

Have this assignment along with your chapter questions prepared to hand in after Spring Break.

Character types

• Dynamic - A dynamic character is a person who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving a central conflict or facing a major crisis. Most dynamic characters tend to be central rather than peripheral characters, because resolving the conflict is the major role of central characters.

• Static - A static character is someone who does not change over time; his or her personality does not transform or evolve.

•  Flat - A flat character is the opposite of a round character. This literary personality is notable for one kind of personality trait or characteristic.

• Round - A rounded character is anyone who has a complex personality; he or she is often portrayed as a conflicted and contradictory person.

• Stock - Stock characters are those types of characters who have become conventional or stereotypical through repeated use in particular types of stories. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to readers or audience members (e.g. the femme fatale, the cynical but moral private eye, the mad scientist, the geeky boy with glasses, and the faithful sidekick). Stock characters are normally one-dimensional flat characters, but sometimes stock personalities are deeply conflicted, rounded characters (e.g. the "Hamlet" type).

• Anti-Hero - A major character, usually the protagonist, who lacks conventional nobility of mind, and who struggles for values not deemed universally admirable. Duddy, in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, is a classic anti-hero. He's vulgar, manipulative and self-centered. Nevertheless, Duddy is the center of the story, and we are drawn to the challenges he must overcome and the goals he seeks to achieve.

Explore English

Hi gang,

Here are notes for this Friday and the following Monday.
Start off with your daily dose of grammar and some literary terms. Write your journal responses and work on chapter questions. Be sure to spend the rest of the class reading. I'll be around to say hello.

Friday

Daily Dose # 17

Define the dash and describe its uses.

The dash is an emphatic mark that usually indicates an interruption of thought, a sharp break or a shift in thought. Uses are to: introduce a word or group that you wish to emphasize; a break in thought; to set off distinguished parenthetical material.

Daily Dose # 18

Define quotation marks and describe the placement of end punctuation with quotation marks.

Quotation marks enclose words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs indicating the beginning and ending of material being repeated or quoted. The comma and period always come inside quotation marks. Question marks, exclamation points and dashes come outside quotation marks unless they are part of the quotation. The semicolon and colon always go outside quotation marks.

Monday

Daily Dose # 19

Describe the uses of the apostrophe.

The apostrophe is a mark of punctuation and a spelling symbol. It indicates omission of a letter or letters (wasn’t, can’t, he’s); forms the possessive case of a noun (the horse’s saddle, the boys’ clubhouse).

Daily Dose # 20

What is a verb?

A verb is a word that specifies actions or events that take place in time or a relation between two things.

Literary Devices

Friday

Symbolism

Symbolism refers to any object or person which represents something else.

"Finally, doves fly over the fields of war" (doves symbolize peace)

Tone

Tone refers to the attitude that a story creates towards it's subject matter. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Tone is sometimes referred to as the mood that the author establishes within the story.

Imagery

Imagery is used in fiction to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience. Imagery may be in many forms, such as metaphors and similes.

"First day of school smells like new books."

Monday

Metaphors

Comparing something to something else.

"The ocean is a bowl of dreams."

Simile

A comparison using like or as.

"He smells like a gym shoe."

Personification

Making an object act like a person or animal

"The ducks complained all day."

Chapter Questions (Be sure to answer in complete sentences)

Friday
1. Why is Ralph elected chief?
2. What is the "scar" that is repeatedly mentioned?
3. Why is Jack unable to kill the pig?
4. How is Piggy revealed as most closely tied to the world of adults?

Monday
5. What question does the littlun with the birthmark raise?
6. How do Ralph and Jack answer the question about the beast?
7. How do they start the fire?
8. What two groups with differing goals are emerging?


Journal Questions (write for 10-15 minuets)

Friday
Have you ever been manipulated? How/why? Have you ever manipulated someone?

Monday
Have you ever been scared? What were the circumstances? Tell me the details.