The document discusses a classroom website that provides information on various topics like vocabulary, literary terms, and plot details of a story. It includes summaries of the plot, which involves two men fighting over a woman's love, with one winning her but the other committing suicide. It also discusses themes of the story like man vs machine and love/deceit. Literary terms like personification, colloquialism and irony are defined in the context of examples from the story. The story seems to involve a computer named EPICAC that expresses interest in a woman named Pat through poems.

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EPICAC

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"I thank you for your attention, and I'm outta
here."

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Alfred Tennyson
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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New Idiomatic Vocabulary
Phrase
• Picking up the check
• Not a peep
• In one hell of a state
• Heart not in it
• Floored
• Stumped
• Out of his head
Means
• Pay for something
• Not speaking
• Not doing well, messed
up
• Not interested
• Stunned, surprised
• Confused
• Crazy

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The Plot
Who? What? When?
Where? Why? How?
Main Idea?
Two fight over woman’s love - -
one gets girl, other commits
suicide.

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Plot Comprehension Questions
Who/what is EPICAC?
How is he different from others of
his kind?
Why did early publicity about
EPICAC die down quickly?
Why did EPICAC work slowly?
Why does Pat refuse the author’s
early proposals?

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Plot Comprehension Questions
What makes EPICAC work without
“sluggishness and stammering
clicks”?
Why does Pat kiss the author?
What does Pat ask for after the
poem “The Kiss”?
Why does EPICAC self destruct?

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THEMES to Consider
• Man vs. Machine
• Love & Deceit
– All’s fair in love and war (Idiom)
• Friendship
• War / Death / Suicide
• Simple (Unsophisticated) /
Complex (Sophistication)
• Science (math) vs Romance (love)

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Literary Terms (1)
Personification – attributing human
characteristics to nonliving things
Examples:
EPICAC (a computer) was noble,
great, and brillant (ln 12)
He had a “spiritual side” (ln 18)
Others?

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Literary Terms (2)
Colloquialism – informal or
conversational language (slang)
Examples:
The tax payers were “picking up the
check”. (ln 3)
He was in “one hell of a state.” (ln 52)
It was “no go”.(ln 77)
Others?

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Literary Terms (3)
Irony- a comment or situation that
the opposite of what is expected
occurs
EPICAC’s wooing of Pat is ironic
The man using the machine to
express poetry is ironic

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Literary Terms (4)
Poetry- a type of writing that uses
language to create an emotional
response through meaning, sound,
and rhythm

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EPICAC’s Poems…
Where willow wands bless rill-
crossed hollow,
There, thee, Pat, will I follow
Alliteration, rhyme

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EPICAC’s Poems…
TO PAT
Where willow wands bless rill-
crossed hollow,
There, thee, Pat, will I follow…
Alliteration, rhyme

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EPICAC’s Poems…
THE KISS
Love is a hawk with velvet claws;
Love is a rock with heart and veins;
Love is a lion with satin jaws;
Love is a storm with silken reins…
Sonnet (specific form), Shakespeare

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Your Thoughts
• Will the Narrator and Pat’s
marriage last? Why / Why not?
• Why did EPICAC give 500 years
worth of poems before dying?
• Who would you rather be friends
with -- The Narrator or EPICAC?

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