Okay, Hamilton needs more words. There was that whole list Dr. Jerz said we could use from Mcdonald's essay and I can't find one of them in Hamilton's book. In fact I couldn't find them anywhere, are we sure McDonald didn't just make them up? Anyway, I'm going to just have to pick a word, any word...
Irony-"presents a deliberate contrast between two levels of meaning. The word derives from a type of character in Greek drama, the eiron, who pretended to be stupid and unaware. He used the pretense to decieve and triumph over a stock character, the alazon, who was truly stupid, but boastful and complacent." (Hamilton 44)
I actually learned something picking this word, I had not known about the Greek dramatic characters. That was really interesting.
Comments (2)
I did the same process that you did! I do not know any of the words in that long list that McDonald provided. I would like to have them explained also.
My previous blog entry, listed below, talked about irony and I thought it was interesting that irony was derived from "Greek." A lot of our language, as you probably already are aware of, is derived from Latin or Greek. I always was told that if I learned Latin then I would understand language in a better way because many of the root words or meanings are from Latin.
Great Entry!
My blog entry about irony: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DerekTickle/2009/02/what_is_the_meaning-_you_might.html
Posted by Derek Tickle | February 17, 2009 9:10 PM
Posted on February 17, 2009 21:10
Hey!!! I know this is suppose to be about Hamilton and all, but two weeks ago, I found a word that wasn't in Hamilton and just looked it up on my own for the Hamilton blog. It didn't seem to be a problem. I wouldn't suggest doing it ever week (I'm not sure if we are really allowed to) but if it is helpful to your weeks readings--why not!?
Posted by Bethany Merryman | February 18, 2009 10:16 PM
Posted on February 18, 2009 22:16