Read the following prompt:
Reread the final act of The Importance of Being Earnest. Then, focusing particularly on the play's conclusion, write an essay (DON'T PANIC UNTIL YOU READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS) in which you explain how Wilde uses three literary devices--overstatement (hyperbole), understatement, and irony, for example--to critique the values of Victorian Society.
For homework: you will not write an actual essay but, instead, will create a chart in which you label 2 to 3 examples of hyperbole, 2 to 3 examples of understatement, and 2 to 3 examples of irony. You can substitute a difference literary device for any of the three if you would like.
Think about for Thursday:
(If you want to call up a "partner" and talk ahead of time, that will be great. I know Bekah will be absent, so we might have to have a group of 3 or get creative somehow-maybe a Mean Girls' scene where all three find they are "dating" the same guy.)
You will rewrite (with a partner) a contemporary version of Act II's scene between Cecily and Gwendolen in which they first meet ((467 - 598). Consider your setting for this meeting. Carefully rename your characters. What might they chat about? Pay particular attention to your characters' speech patterns. What do these suggest about your characters' beliefs and values, as well as those of the society they represent?
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