I just stumbled across my twelfth-grade English text. Amazing to see those old doodles of flowerpots–they saved my sanity during hours of sitting-still-listening.
What I wrote in the margins:
- “have you got something on your mind?” so close to real situation, but just cliché way of opening conversation.
- Describe a person’s character thru his actions. Show, don’t tell, what he’s like. Due Mon.
- Irony: by parallelling 2 contrasting ideas, you underline one of them.
Years later, I still don’t “get” irony. But in lectures these days, I draw much better flowerpots….