Keep this work very neat and orderly, and have it with you for Wednesday's class:
1. Look up symbol in your Literary Handbook. Write the definition on your paper. Then determine what the elephant might symbolize. Be sure it is consistent with the essay's action.
2. Look up and define situational and verbal irony. Find and list four examples from "Shooting an Elephant" with at least one representative example for each type of irony.
3. Do the same for tone, and extract three passages that prove what you say. See board for adjectives describing tone.
4. Look at the essay's point of view. In simple terms, in what point of view is it presented? Now, think more closely, and describe what creates the ironic gap between the narrator and the subject of his narration.
5. Who does Orwell address -- that is, who is his audience? What would he like for them to think or do?
Those who missed the Orwell passage from "Marrakech," here it is.
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