Senior Project Update 2

This last few weeks I've been fittling around with the word press blogger format. Word press is definitely different from blogger in a lot of ways. So far the blogger template is very simplistic over the next couple weeks the format will go into its final stage. Look forward seeing how it turns out!

Senior Project Update

You can find my senior project at http://seniorsurvivalguidee.wordpress.com/

Senior Project

For my senior project I decided to create an active senior survival guide on word press. The blog will provide helpful tips, information, and advice regarding college, AP classes, scholarships, ect.

We're at the end

In the beginning of Senior year, we beg the year to go by fast. Toward the middle, we beg it to slow down. And at the end, we wish it to never stop

Graduation isn’t the closing of a door, It’s the opening of a thousand.

With graduation around the corner.. I can't help but celebrate

Senior Presentation Board

AP Exam Reflection

After taking the AP Exam for this course I'd like to reflect on my experience. What I did know, what I didn't know, and what stood out to me. Starting with the multiple choice, in my opinion the multiple choice was the easiest part of the exam. I particularly liked the poetry passages and questions. As for the essays it's definitely difficult to focus your mind for 2 straight hours and write 3 of the best essays of your life. I particularly had problems staying focused. I liked the poetry essay the best out of the three essays. If I could have done something different I would have prepared more for the open essay question.

Hamlet Essay

Open Essay

Thou Blind Man's Mark Essay

Keats and Longfellow Comparative Essay

Fasting Essay

The Crossing Essay

The Street Essay

Helen to Troy Essay

Times a ticking

With the AP exam right around the corner I feel pretty confident in my abilities and my schooling. Over the pass few days leading up the exam I am making sure to get plenty of sleep and good nutrition. I have also been looking over my in class essays and reflecting on them. I have asked you, Dr. Preston, questions and believe in the time allotted I have done all that I can to prepare for this test. We'll see soon! Check back in a couple of days.

Poetry Team Reponses

aliciahernandez.blogspot
Title: At first glance, the title 'Our Deepest Fear' makes me think of monsters and gloomy type of scene. I assumed the author would be a little boy or little girl.
Paraphrase: 'Our Deepest Fear' by Marianne Williamson is a truly amazing poem. The poem how people in the community is scared of reaching their full potential. 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.' The line reveals how we are not scared we are not enough, we are scared that we are more intelligent, stronger then we know. The poet reveals how each individual has their own potential. Mrs. Williamson states how to each individual much rise to their full potential in order to better the world itself.
Connotation: The author uses special diction and syntax in order to betray her message. By using such powerful words you become one with the poem. The whole poem has words like 'inadequate' instead of a basic word like unintelligent. By switching just these two words makes a poem much more powerful and much more motivating.
Attitude: The authors tone is just really self motivating each individual. The poem reminds me of the coach telling his players to do the impossible. The poem is so inspirational and has the attitude where you just want to get up and go get to get that education or do whatever you want to do in life in order to succeed. By keeping that powerful tone the audience is able to feel what the author is trying to convey.
Shift: ' Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure'. There is a shift in the middle of the poem when the author is explaining How each individual has the potential to be anything they want not just to better themselves but also the world itself.
Title Revisited: After reading the poem several times I have came to the conclusion that our deepest fear is not about monsters or any physical challenge. The title means we must mentally overcome our obstacles and self-doubt.
Theme: the author's theme is pretty self explanatory. Each individual has ability to do whatever they want in their life. However, we are so scared of rejection we reject ourselves. We have the opportunity to get education and not only better ourselves the better those around us. The author mentioned how playing a small role in the world does not help anybody. Be who you want to be a but make sure its a person you can be. Everyone is beautiful and everyone is powerful. Do not let self doubt control your life. You are the controller of your own game so play well and win everything.

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Title: The title of the poem expresses the significance that the narrator put on his fantasies by referring to his dreams as a state of apotheosis

Paraphrase parts of the poem: "joy departed"- Meaning no longer joyous or containing joy. “But a waking dream of life and light hath left me broken-hearted”- The narrator articulates his fears of when his fantasy world will come to an end. Connotation: "broken-hearted"- His heart isn't literally broken, but he is devastated or sad. "What is not a dream by day"- This doesn't literally mean that dreams during the day, but what one dreams at all. Attitude: In my opinion, the attitude of the poem is one that is introverted, or even emotionally inept, as if "his" message is not to be shared with society. This seems like a sensitive subject for the narrator, as he shares his deepest thoughts and feelings.

Shift: I feel that there is a shift between "In visions of the dark night", and "But a waking dream of life and light", the first quotes creates a dark, depressing state for me, while the second quote creates one that is more joyful.

Title Revised: I feel that "A Dream" has significance as the narrator discusses his very own dream. His dream ,I feel, is to live in his own fantasy wold, undisturbed.

Theme: The theme of this poem is how the narrator wants to live in his own dreams, maybe because of traumatic life experiences. He finds more comfort in his fantasy world than he does reality and fears the day that his fantasy world will cease.

Vgonzalezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com

Title: A Summer’s Dream by Elizabeth Bishop sound like it will be happy and uplifting.

Paraphrase: In this poem, I feel as if Bishop is observing these 4 characters in one room and making a poem about them. The owl seems a bit random. The poem, although it is titled A Summer's Dream which makes you think of sunny, fun and happy things, seems like a contradiction to the actual poem which has nothing to do with summer and who's tone has dark feelings at times.

Connotation:

Diction: wharf, geraniums, linoleums, somn ambulist

Attitude: The attitude of the author is a mix between dreamy and gloomy. She doesn't stick to one subject and jumps from one thing to another. This moment seems like a real moment but pictured in a dreamy way where her attention shifts from one thing to another.

Tone: I hate repetition but her tone seems dreamy, smooth and gloomy at times.

Shift(s): I think these two verses are where the poem shifts from normal, content to serious and gloomy. Extraordinary geraniums crowded the front windows, the floors glittered with assorted linoleums.

Every night we listened for a horned owl. In the horned lamp flame, the wallpaper glistened.

Title revisited: The title is referring to a memory and the poem is the description of part of the memory that she allows us to see into. She gives us details that make us question the title but in all the title is what she got out of the memory although we can extract other feelings from the poem.

Theme: Im struggling on this one...

GROUPTHINK

Each person in our group has chosen a different poems in different categories therefore we get a better understanding of different types of poems. Since we each have chosen a poem and have presented many presentations to each other we have learned different types of writing themes, diction and tones.

Vendler Grid

Meaning
Antecedent Scenario
Structural Parts
Climax
Other Parts

Skeleton
Content Genre- games
Tone
Agency
Roads Not Taken
Speech Acts
Outer and Inner Structural Forms
Imagination

Poetry Grid Lock

TPCASTT:  Poem Analysis Method:   title, paraphrase, connotation, diction,  attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and  theme
Titleof poem means
Paraphraseparts of the Poem
Connotationof some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values
AttitudeWhat is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?
ShiftAt first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them
Title revisitedAny new insights on meaning or significance of title?
Theme

Poetry Group

My group consists of myself, Dani Galindo, Alicia Hernandez & Valerie Gonzalez. We each have one poem on our blog we personally have chosen. At the end of the week, we will collaborate with one another and reveal our analysis of each poem we have done.

UPDATE: Sebastian Guillen has been included in our group!

Reflection on the Macbeth Exam

For me the Macbeth exam was really difficult with each section being on a timed slideshow it really didn't give the reader (us as students) enough time to read, understand, and put into prospective the information provided.

The First Book by Rita Dove

I chose this poem because it was simplistic it brought me back to the beginning of the year and our discussion on real books vs audio books.

March Literary Analysis

Brave New World Chapter 9&10

Summary: Chapter 9

Lenina, disgusted by the Reservation, takes enough soma to incapacitate herself for eighteen hours. Bernard flies to Santa Fé to call Mustapha Mond. He repeats his story to a succession of secretaries before finally reaching the World Controller. Mond agrees that John and Linda are a matter of scientific interest to the World State. He instructs Bernard to visit the Warden of the Reservation to pick up the orders that will release John and Linda into his care. Meanwhile, fearful that Bernard and Lenina have left without him, John breaks into the cabin where Lenina is still on soma-holiday. He rifles through her things before he finds her passed out on the bed. He gazes at her, quietly quoting passages from Romeo and Juliet. He wants to touch her but fears that it would defile her. As he gazes at her, Bernard’s helicopter approaches, and John is able to run from the house and hide his trespass.

Summary: Chapter 10

Back at the Hatchery, the Director tells Henry that he plans to dismiss Bernard in front of dozens of high-caste workers as a public example. He explains that Bernard’s unorthodox behavior threatens stability. Sacrificing one individual for the greater good of the society is no great loss since the Hatchery can churn out dozens of new babies.

When Bernard arrives, the Director declares Bernard “heretical” because he refuses to behave like an infant and does not immediately seek to gratify his own desires. He tells Bernard that he is being transferred to Iceland. But then Bernard presents Linda and John. Linda accuses the Director of making her have a baby and the room suddenly falls silent. John falls at the Director’s feet and cries, “My father!” The workers break out into peals of hysterical laughter as the Director rushes from the room.-www.sparknotes.com

ACTIVE READING NOTES:

-everyone takes the reserve realization differently

-for lenina she is totally overwhelmed and disgusted by the reservation and as a result takes soma to relieve the stress and feelings

-bernard is more interested in how things came to be 

-john tries to touch lenina but is intimidated by bernard 

Brave New World Chapter 7&8

Summary: Chapter 7

At the Reservation, Lenina watches a community celebration. The pounding of the drums reminds her of Solidarity Services and Ford’s Day celebrations. The images of an eagle and a man on a cross are raised, and a youth walks into the center of a pile of writhing snakes. A man whips him, drawing blood until the youth collapses. Lenina is horrified.John, a handsome blond youth in Indian dress, surprises Lenina and Bernard by speaking perfect English. He says that he wanted to be the sacrifice, but the town would not let him. He explains that his mother, Linda, came from the Other Place outside the Reservation. During a visit to the Reservation, she fell and suffered an injury, but was rescued by some Indians who found her and brought her to the village, where she has lived ever since. His father, also from the Other Place, was named Tomakin. Bernard realizes that “Tomakin” is actually Thomas, the Director, but says nothing for the moment.

Summary: Chapter 8

John tells Bernard that he grew up listening to Linda’s fabulous stories about the Other Place. But he also felt isolated and rejected, partly because his mother slept with so many men and partly because the people of the village never accepted him. Linda took a lover, Popé, who brought her an alcoholic drink called mescal. She began drinking heavily. Meanwhile, despite being forbidden from taking part in the Indian’s rituals, John absorbed the culture around him. Linda taught him to read, at first by drawing on the wall and later using a guide for Beta Embryo-Store Workers that she had happened to bring with her. He asked her questions about the World State, but she could tell him very little about how it worked. One day, Popé brought The Complete Works of Shakespeare to Linda’s house. John read it avidly until he could quote passages by heart. The plays gave voice to all of his repressed emotions.-www.sparknotes.com

ACTIVE READING NOTES:

-introduce john's mother and how john came to be alive

-how she ended up at the reservation and the feeling of isolation, freedom, and truth

-in addition the feeling of loneliness and misunderstanding or stereotypes

Brave New World Chapter 6&7

Summary: Chapter 5

After a game of Obstacle Golf, Henry and Lenina fly in a helicopter over a crematorium where phosphorous is collected from burning bodies for fertilizer. They drink coffee with soma before heading off to the Westminster Abbey Cabaret. They take another soma dose before they return to Henry’s apartment. Although the repeated doses of soma have made them almost completely oblivious to the world around them, Lenina remembers to use her contraceptives.

Summary: Chapter 6

Lenina convinces Bernard to attend a wrestling match. He behaves gloomily the entire afternoon and, despite Lenina’s urging, refuses to take soma. During the return trip, he stops his helicopter and hovers over the Channel. She begs him to take her away from the rushing emptiness of the water after he tells her that the silence makes him feel like an individual. Eventually he takes a large dose of soma, and has sex with her.

The next day, Bernard tells Lenina that he did not really want to have sex with her the first night; he would have preferred to act like an adult instead. Then he goes to get the Director’s permission to visit the Reservation. He braces himself for the Director’s disapproval of his unusual behavior. When the Director presents the permit, he mentions that he took a trip there with a woman twenty years before. She was lost during a storm and has not been seen since. When Bernard says that he must have suffered a terrible shock, the Director immediately realizes that he has been revealing too much of his personal life. He criticizes Bernard for his antisocial behavior and threatens to exile him to Iceland if his impropriety persists. Bernard leaves the office feeling proud of being considered a rebel.-www.sparknotes.com

ACTIVE READING NOTES:

-Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,

Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-porgy gives release.

nuff said-

Brave New World Chapter 4

Summary: Chapter 4

When Lenina tells Bernard in front of a big group of coworkers that she accepts his invitation to see the Savage Reservation, Bernard reacts with embarrassment. His suggestion that they discuss it privately confuses Lenina. She saunters off to meet Henry. Bernard feels terrible because Lenina behaved like a “healthy and virtuous English girl”—that is, someone unafraid of discussing her sexual life in public. When the genial Benito Hoover strikes up a conversation, Bernard rushes away. Lenina and Henry fly off on their date in Henry’s helicopter, and look down upon their world in perfect contentment.

Ordering a pair of Delta-Minus attendants to get his helicopter ready for flight, Bernard betrays his insecurity about his size. The lower castes associate larger size with higher status, so he has trouble getting them to follow his orders. Bernard contemplates his feelings of alienation and becomes irritable. He visits his friend, Helmholtz Watson, a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. Helmholtz is an extremely intelligent, attractive, and properly sized Alpha Plus who works in propaganda. Some of Helmholtz’s superiors think he is a little too smart for his own good. The narrator agrees with them, noting that “a mental excess had produced in Helmholtz Watson effects very similar to those which, in Bernard Marx, were the result of a physical defect.” The friendship between Bernard and Helmholtz springs from their mutual dissatisfaction with the status quo and their shared inclination to view themselves as individuals. Once together, Bernard boasts that Lenina has accepted his invitation, but Helmholtz shows little interest. Helmholtz is preoccupied with the thought that his writing talent could be better used than simply for writing hypnopaedic phrases. His work leaves him feeling empty and unfulfilled. Bernard becomes nervous, jumping up at one point because he thinks, wrongly, that someone is listening at the door.-www.sparknotes.com

ACTIVE READING NOTES:

-soma a drug similar to in todays time Ecstasy

-this chapter is full of the use of soma

-bernard and lenina take soma together with coffee then they go to hang out with their friends where they continue to take more soma

-in this chapter soma is established as a social norm

-huxley also establishes the relationship between soma and sexual activity 

Brave New World Chapter 2&3

Summary: Chapter 2

The Director leads the group of students to the Nurseries. Posted on a notice board are the phrases, “Infant Nurseries. Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms.” The students observe a Bokanovsky group of eight-month-old babies wearing the Delta caste’s khaki-colored clothes. Some nurses present the babies with books and flowers. As the babies crawl toward the books and the flowers, cooing with pleasure, alarms ring shrilly. Then, the babies suffer a mild electric 

The Director explains that after200 repetitions of the same process, the children will have an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. A hatred for books is ingrained in the lower castes to prevent them from wasting the community’s time reading books that might “decondition” them. The motivation for instilling a hatred for flowers is more complicated. The Director explains that Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were once conditioned to like flowers and nature in general. The idea was to compel them to visit the country often and “consume transport” in the process. But since nature is free, they consumed nothing other than transportation.-www.sparknotes.com

Summary: Chapter 3

The Director leads the students to the garden, where several hundred naked children are playing. The Director remarks that “in Our Ford’s day,” games involved no more than a ball or two, a few sticks, and maybe a net. Such simple apparatus did nothing to increase consumption. In the current World State, all games, like “Centrifugal Bumble-puppy,” involve complicated machines.

The Director is interrupted by the cries of a little boy sitting in the bushes. It soon becomes clear that the little boy, for some reason, is uncomfortable with the erotic play in which the children are encouraged to participate. After the boy is whisked off to see the psychologist, the Director astounds the students by explaining that sexual play during childhood and adolescence used to be considered abnormal and immoral. When he begins to explain the deleterious effects of sexual repression, a man interrupts him. The Director reverently introduces the man as “his fordship” Mustapha Mond. At the complex, four thousand electric clocks simultaneously strike four, marking the shift change. Henry Foster and Lenina each head up to the changing rooms in preparation for their date. While heading to the rooms, Henry snubs Bernard Marx who is said to have an unsavory reputation.

The narrative suddenly begins to shift back and forth between three different scenes, splicing in Mustapha Mond’s speech to the boys with scenes of Henry’s conversation in the male changing room and Lenina’s conversation in the female training room. This SparkNote will describe Mond’s speech first, and then the two changing room conversations.shock. Afterward, when the nurses offer the flowers and books to the babies, they shrink away and wail with terror. -www.sparknotes.com

ACTIVE READING NOTES:

-the world that lenina and bernard know is a very forced illusion

-bernard recognizes that the world he lives in is fake

-lenina does not notice the false hood or is too scared to let herself admit it

-world is frightening filled with unnatural sexual encounters 

-the children play with naked bodies erotically 

Brave New World Chapter 1

Summary: Chapter 1

The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is a.f. 632 (632 years “after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.

The Hatchery destines each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process, which involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo this dividing process, which can weaken the embryos. The Director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its guiding motto: “Community, Identity, Stability.”

The Director goes on to describe Podsnap’s Technique, which speeds up the ripening process of eggs within a single ovary. With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years. The average production rate using Podsnap’s Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins. Called over by the Director, Mr. Henry Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the attentive students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.

ACTIVE NOTES:

-all sexual desires and tendencies have been erased from human behavior

-sexual intercourse and similar words are considered pornographic 

-brain washing begins as a baby to ensure efficiency 

-huxely often relates Brave New World to the real world with Soma

Brave New World

Background:

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved international acclaim with this now-classic novel. Because Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic. The novel is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values.

The story is set in a London six hundred years in the future. People all around the world are part of a totalitarian state, free from war, hatred, poverty, disease, and pain. They enjoy leisure time, material wealth, and physical pleasures. However, in order to maintain such a smoothly running society, the ten people in charge of the world, the Controllers, eliminate most forms of freedom and twist around many traditionally held human values. Standardization and progress are valued above all else. These Controllers create human beings in factories, using technology to make ninety-six people from the same fertilized egg and to condition them for their future lives. Children are raised together and subjected to mind control through sleep teaching to further condition them. As adults, people are content to fulfill their destinies as part of five social classes, from the intelligent Alphas, who run the factories, to the mentally challenged Epsilons, who do the most menial jobs. All spend their free time indulging in harmless and mindless entertainment and sports activities. When the Savage, a man from the uncontrolled area of the world (an Indian reservation in New Mexico) comes to London, he questions the society and ultimately has to choose between conformity and death.

Literary terms 109-137

Lit Terms 109-137

Romanticism- movement in western culture beginning in the 18th and peaking in the 19th century as a revolt against classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
Satire- ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions or humanity in general
Scansion- the analysis of verse in terms of meter
Setting- the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur
Simile- a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison
Soliloquy- an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage
Spiritual- a folk song, usually on a religious theme
Speaker- a narrator, the one speaking
Stereotype- cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story
Stream of Consciousness- the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them
Structure- the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization
Style- the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
Subordination- the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language
Surrealism- a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal
Suspension of Disbelief- suspend not believing in order to enjoy it
Symbol- something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own
Synesthesia- the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense
Synecdoche- another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole
Syntax- the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence
Theme- main idea of the story; its message
Thesis- a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea
Tone- the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view
Tongue in Check- a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness
Tragedy- in literature; any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically flawed
Understatement- opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
Vernacular- everyday speech
Voice- the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona
Zeitgeist- the feeling of a particular era in history

Literary terms 83-108

Omniscient Point of View- knowing all things, usually the third person
Onomatopoeia- whose of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox
Pacing- rate of movement; tempo
Parable- a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth
Paradox- a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas
Parallelism- the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form
Parody- an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist
Pathos- the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness
Pedantry- a display of learning for its own sake
Personification- a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
Plot- a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose
Poignant- eliciting sorrow or sentiment
Point of View- the attitude unifying any oral or written argument; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing
Postmodernism- literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
Prose- the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that doesn't have a regular rhyme pattern
Protagonist- the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist
Pun- play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications
Purpose- the intended result wished by an author
Realism- writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is
Refrain- a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus
Requiem- any chant, dirge, hymn or musical service for the dead
Resolution- point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out
Restatement- idea repeated for emphasis
Rhetoric-  use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade
Rhetorical Question- question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion
Rising Action- plot build up, caused by conflict and complication, advancement towards climax

Literary terms 57-82

Gothic Tale- a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay
Hyperbole- an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point
Imagery- figures of speech or vivid descriptions conveying images through any of the senses
Implication- a meaning or understanding that's to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author
Incongruity- The deliberate joining of opposite or of elements that aren't appropriate to each other
Inference- a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available
Irony- a contrast between what's said and what's meant or what's expected to happen and what actually happens or what's thought to be happening and what's actually happening
Interior Monologue- a form of writing that represents inner thoughts of a character, recording of internal, emotional experiences of an individual
Inversion- words out of order for emphasis
Juxtaposition- the intentional placement of a word, phrase or sentences of paragraph to contrast with another
Lyric- a poem having musical form and quality; short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings
Magical Realism- a genre developed in Latin American which juxtaposes the everyday with the magical
Metaphor- an analogy that compares two different things imaginatively
Extended- a metaphor that's extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it
Controlling- a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work
Mixed- a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies
Metonymy- literally name changing a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute is substituted for the usual name of a thing
Mode of Discourse- argument, narration, description, and exposition
Modernism- literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology
Monologue- an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel or narrative poem
Mood- the predominating atmosphere evoke by a literary piece
Motif- a recurring feature in a piece of literature
Myth- a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world
Narrative- a story or description of events
Narrator- one who narrates or tells a story
Naturalism- an extreme form of realism
Novelette/Novella- short story; short prose narrative, often satirical

What's the story?

"What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people's hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you're playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack." -Keith Richards

Why did Charles Dickens write the novel you're reading/reviewing? What in your analysis of literary techniques led you to this conclusion? (Make sure to include textual support illustrating Dickens' use of at least three techniques we've studied/discussed this year.)

Charles Dickens wrote the novel to explain his views on society and social status to society. Dickens take advantage of literary devices like allusion,  characterization, and foils to better establish the theme and characters within the story. He adds personal touches to the piece the display his own life. The main lesson I noticed was that despite the many foils, everyone shares one thing in common, their imperfections  Dickens does a great job in creating the characters how real people are, which makes me think that the characters might be inspired by real people in the author's personal live.

Literary Terms 31-56

Dialect:
A particular language spoken in a particular region, race, or social group.

Dialectics:
A rationale or dialectic materialism based through on change through conflict or opposing forces.

Dichotomy:
Split between two opposing things.

Diction:
One's style of speaking or writing.


Didactic:
Having to do with the transmission of information.

Dogmatic:
Rigid in beliefs and principles.

Elegy:
A mournful, melancholy, poem especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains
general reflections on death, often with rural or pastoral setting.

Epic:
A long narrative poem unified by the hero who reflects the customs, mores, aspiraitions, of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary an historic exploits over long periods of time.

Epigram:
Witty aphorism.

“

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.

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Epitaph:
Any brief inscription or prose in verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration.

Epithet:
A short, descriptive name or phrase, that may insult someone's character.


Euphemism:
The use of indirect, wild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse,  offensive, or blunt.

Exposition:
Beginning of a story that sets forth facts and ideas.

In The Faults in our Stars, Hazel introduces her life as a young girl who has cancer and who is very depressed, she gives us more information as the beginning progresses. 

Expressionism:
Movement in art, literature, or music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feelings.

Fable:
A short, simple, story usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

Fallacy:
From the Latin word, "to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

Falling Action:
Part of narrative or drama after the climax.

Farce: 
A boisterous comedy involving ludicrous language and dialogue.

Figurative Language:
Apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech.

Flashback:
A narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

Foil:
A person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

In Jane Erye, Bertha is Jane's Foil.  

Folk Tale:
Story passed one by word of mouth.

Foreshadowing:
In fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

Free Verse:
Verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or rhyme.

Genre:
A category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or form

Kudos to Valerie Gonzalez

Lecture Notes

Dicken's Map

1) your reading schedule to complete your reading/review of the book by Monday, Feb. 4
Because I will be gone for a week, I intend to read the remainder of  the book on the plane ride on the way to and from my destination, as well as on car rides. 
I plan on reading the book by February 4th by reading it in my free time and before bed, devoting atleast ten minutes a day.

 2) five AP questions (with source URLs) that you intend to be able to answer by the time you finish.
What was Pip hoping to get from Miss Havisham and what does he really get?

Why does Pip lie about his experience at Miss Havisham’s? 

What person reappears in London?

Who is the real source of his fortune and who did he think it was from?

 3) how you think you should be tested on these ideas, and/or how you intend to demonstrate your expertise on your blog. 
Essay Question 1:In the original ending of Great Expectations, Pip sees Estella in London in the company of her husband and her children. Dickens was advised by a close friend that this was not how readers would want the story to end, so the ending was changed to the now published ending. Evaluate the purpose behind Charles Dickens' original ending. Which ending completes the story more fully? Which ending makes the most sense to you as the reader, and which ending most efficiently potrays the key themes of the novel? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Question 2:Miss Havisham is heart broken and left in a disarry on her wedding day when her fiance leaves her at the alter.  Coincidently this "fience" is none other than Compeyson.  In her rage at this situation Miss Havisham adopts Estella to use her to get back at men.  Do you think that this justifies how Estella acts or is her manner just naturally how she is? Do you believe that Miss Havisham has the right to corrupt someone elses life and use them for her own selfish purposes?