Quarter 4, Week 5 – Making Predictions

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 Anglo-American Literature Icon: 

 Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965)

            -Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.  

Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson as a fiction writer and Hyman as a contributor to "Talk of the Town".

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 Figure of speech in focus 

-Antimetabole-

-Antimetabole is derived from a Greek word which means “turning about.” It is a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order.

Example: “You like it; it likes you.”

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 MAKING PREDICTIONS  

            -“Predictions are the connecting links between prior knowledge and new information in the book. It’s the  interaction of these processes that coalesce—much like sparks firing before the bright flame ignites. . .” - Gillett  and Temple, 1990

What is a prediction? 

A prediction is an educated guess about what will happen later in a text / material. Predictions are:

    • based on things that have already happened; 

    • informed by things that you know; and 

    • NOT outlandish or uncharacteristic.

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