1052 Week 3

CHARLES DICKENS

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic.

He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

IRONY

A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.

1. verbal irony

Verbal irony is when a character or person says something, but means the exact opposite.

2. dramatic irony

Dramatic irony is when the audience is aware of something that the character is not.

3. situational irony

Situational irony is when you expect one thing to happen but get the exact opposite.

VOCABULARY

Prefixes

trans- = across

transient /ˈtrænziənt/

e.g. The city has a large transient population.

Roots

confid = trust

confidential /ˌkɒnfɪˈdenʃ(ə)l/

e.g. His confidential manner led me to expect important news.

Suffixes

-age = the action, result or state of

parentage /ˈpeərəntɪdʒ/

e.g. He is of mixed Italian and English parentage.

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY

It is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1–126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609), it is the first of the cycle after the opening sequence now described as the procreation sonnets.