class 2-4-13

Today’s class brought to you by Doritos

• Improved writing by learning more flexible and complex syntax
• Improved writing by learning figures of speech
• Larger and more flexible vocabulary
• More careful and sharper reading of texts
• Development of creative imagination and problems solving
• More perceptive awareness of the characters of others
• More perceptive awareness of one’s own self-representations

First line of Ovid’s Metamorphoses:

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora
I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms.

Circumlocution (“fert animus”)

Anastrophe (English literal order is “animus fert dicere formas mutatas in nova corpa”)

Elision (“fert me animus”)

Shakespeare Superbowl

1. Divide into teams of four.
2. Pick the hardest sentence or complete clause of no more than 3 lines you can find.  You have 2 minutes to pick. 
3. Give the passage to your opponent to translate into ordinary English.  Opposing team has 2 minutes to make this translation.  Write it out to read.
4. If your team gets the translation wrong, it’s out.