Monday, 10/5/15: Acquiesce to the Inevitable Test

* Open

• Do this grammar review of spliced (two independent clauses joined with a comma but no coordinator) and fused sentences (a.k.a. run-on; two complete ideas with no comma at all)
• Exercise 3 
• Splice Error: I like to eat all kinds of food, I often use food in my grammar examples.
• Fuse Error: I like to eat all kinds of food I often use food in my grammar examples.   
• Correct: I like to eat all kinds of food; I often use food in my grammar examples.
• Correct: I like to eat all kinds of food, so I often use food in my grammar examples. 
• Incorrect: I like to eat all kinds of food, yet I often use food in my grammar examples. 

* Vocabulary 

• Acquiesce (verb)
• to assent (not ascent), submit, comply silently or without protest
• Latin acquiescere "to become quiet, remain at rest," thus "be satisfied with,"
• from ad- "to" + quiescere "to become quiet"

Examples:

In Film:  Example in Dialogue from The Curse of the Black Pearl (please copy the key line):

Elizabeth: Captain Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal.
Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we’re naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa: I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
Pirates: Ooooooh…
Barbossa: Means “no."


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In Poetry: "Sea Girls" by A. E. Stallings

              for Jason

“Not gulls, girls.” You frown, and you insist—
Between two languages, you work at words
(R’s and L’s, it’s hard to get them right.)
We watch the heavens’ flotsam:  garbage-white
Above the island dump (just out of sight),
Dirty, common, greedy—only birds.
OK, I acquiesce, too tired to banter.

Somehow they’re not the same, though. See, they rise
As though we glimpsed them through a torn disguise—
Spellbound maidens, wild in flight, forsaken—
Some metamorphosis that Ovid missed,
With their pale breasts, their almost human cries.
So maybe it is I who am mistaken;
But you have changed them. You are the enchanter.

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• In Prose: The Poetry Foundation on the Renaissance Poet and Priest, John Donne. 

John Donne's best-known sermon, Deaths Duell (1632), is his last one, 

which he preached at court just a month before he expired. He was 
already visibly dying, and this sermon is often taken to seal his long 
preoccupation with death. In fact it celebrates a triumph over death 
that is confirmed by the Resurrection of Christ. Donne draws out three 
distinct senses of his text from Psalm 68, "And unto God the Lord belong 

the issues Of death." God has power to bring about our deliverance from death; 

our deliverance in death (by his care for us in the hour and manner of our death); 

and our deliverance by means of death (through Christ's sacrifice of himself for us). 

By examining each of these senses in turn, Donne shows that they finally cohere in 
Christ's life. The sermon culminates in a meditation upon Christ's last 
hours and sufferings, inviting the reader to acquiesce in oneness with 
Christ's own condition, just because he is the second Adam, who redeems 
the sin of the first:

There we leave you, in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him, that hangs upon the cross. There bathe in his tears, there suck at his wounds, and lie down in peace in his grave, till he vouchsafe you a Resurrection, and an ascension into that Kingdom which he hath purchased for you, with the inestimable price of his incorruptible blood.

Now please compose your own sentence with an opening prepositional phrase. 

* Review the week

* Review journal assignment

HW: Review Notes