This past grading period has been beyond difficult for me due to my deteriorating health. I believe I missed over 30 days of school these past two months. I am struggling with making up work and am very tempted to just give up on everything. The stress is getting to me.
As far as my senior project goes, Ashley and I have the premise of it down along with the cover page. We intend to do a series of comics that focus on the insecurities teenagers everyday and how common it is to think such thoughts.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living?
He is a barber.
2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread?
A nose from one of his customers.
3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery?
She orders him to get rid of the nose immediately.
4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish?
To dispose of the nose in the river.
5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society?
Ivan feels relief for the first time in a long while after disposing of his burden. This suggests that Ivan led a stressful life before the events of the story.
6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?
The nose belongs to Major Kovalyov and the police officer who caught Ivan gives it back to him.
He is a barber.
2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread?
A nose from one of his customers.
3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery?
She orders him to get rid of the nose immediately.
4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish?
To dispose of the nose in the river.
5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society?
Ivan feels relief for the first time in a long while after disposing of his burden. This suggests that Ivan led a stressful life before the events of the story.
6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?
The nose belongs to Major Kovalyov and the police officer who caught Ivan gives it back to him.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Literary Terms #5
Parallelism: a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
Parody: is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize something by means of satiric or ironic imitation
Pathos: an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
Pedantry: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects, abstractions, and animals are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
Plot: the events that make up a story
Poignant: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
Point of view: The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of art
Postmodernism: skeptical interpretations; set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning
Prose: a form of language which applies ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure; kinda like the ordinary way that people speak
Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Pun: a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings
Purpose: A result or effect that is intended or desired, like the reason why the author would write a certain novel
Realism: depictions of contemporary life and society as it is
Refrain: the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
Requiem: A hymn, composition, or service for the dead
Resolution: the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out
Restatement: A method of achieving emphasis by stating an idea twice
Rhetoric: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing by the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetorical question: figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and not elicit a direct answer
Rising action: events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax
Romanticism: validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on emotions like apprehension, horror and terror, and awe
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
Scansion: the analysis of verse to show its meter; describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables
Setting: The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place
Parody: is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize something by means of satiric or ironic imitation
Pathos: an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
Pedantry: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
Personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects, abstractions, and animals are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form
Plot: the events that make up a story
Poignant: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
Point of view: The attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of art
Postmodernism: skeptical interpretations; set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning
Prose: a form of language which applies ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure; kinda like the ordinary way that people speak
Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Pun: a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings
Purpose: A result or effect that is intended or desired, like the reason why the author would write a certain novel
Realism: depictions of contemporary life and society as it is
Refrain: the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
Requiem: A hymn, composition, or service for the dead
Resolution: the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out
Restatement: A method of achieving emphasis by stating an idea twice
Rhetoric: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing by the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetorical question: figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and not elicit a direct answer
Rising action: events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax
Romanticism: validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing emphasis on emotions like apprehension, horror and terror, and awe
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
Scansion: the analysis of verse to show its meter; describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables
Setting: The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place
Literary Terms #4
Interior monologue: a literary attempt to present the mental processes of a character before they are formed into regular patterns of speech or logical sequence; stream of consciousness
Inversion: the reversal of a normal order of words
Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Lyric: Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form.
Magical realism: a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment
Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed): a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object
Metonymy: figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
Modernism: characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
Monologue: A long speech made by one person, often monopolizing a conversation.
Mood: a prevailing atmosphere or feeling
Motif: A dominant theme or central idea.
Myth: A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society
Narrative: Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
Narrator: one who tells a story or recounts a series of events, aloud or in writing
Naturalism: practice of describing precisely the actual circumstances of human life in literature
Novelette/novella: A short novel.
Omniscient point of view: a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
Onomatopoeia: formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Oxymoron: rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
Pacing: the rhythm and speed with which the plot unfolds
Parable: A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.
Paradox: a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true
Inversion: the reversal of a normal order of words
Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Lyric: Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form.
Magical realism: a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment
Metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed): a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object
- extended: when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length
- controlling: symbolic story in which the real meaning is not directly put across the whole poem or may be a metaphor for something else; it affects the diction and the flow of a poem and normally used for political poems.
- mixed: a metaphor that combines different images or ideas in a way that is foolish or illogical
Metonymy: figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
Modernism: characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
Monologue: A long speech made by one person, often monopolizing a conversation.
Mood: a prevailing atmosphere or feeling
Motif: A dominant theme or central idea.
Myth: A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society
Narrative: Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
Narrator: one who tells a story or recounts a series of events, aloud or in writing
Naturalism: practice of describing precisely the actual circumstances of human life in literature
Novelette/novella: A short novel.
Omniscient point of view: a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
Onomatopoeia: formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Oxymoron: rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
Pacing: the rhythm and speed with which the plot unfolds
Parable: A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.
Paradox: a statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true
Literary Terms #3
Exposition: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory
Expressionism: portraying the inner workings of a person’s mind by, effectively, turning them ‘inside out’ and allowing mental states to shape their face, body, and even the world in which they live
Fable: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, which features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson
Fallacy: argument that uses poor reasoning
Falling action: the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved
Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
Figurative language: language used by writers to produce images in readers’ minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways
Flashback: an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point
Foil: One that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another
Folk tale: a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among a people
Foreshadowing: literary device by which an author explains certain plot developments that may come later in the story
Free verse: an open form that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
Genre: term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment
Gothic tale: genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism.
Hyperbole: use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
Imagery: use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
Implication: the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.
Incongruity: out of place
Inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Irony: figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words
Expressionism: portraying the inner workings of a person’s mind by, effectively, turning them ‘inside out’ and allowing mental states to shape their face, body, and even the world in which they live
Fable: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, which features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson
Fallacy: argument that uses poor reasoning
Falling action: the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved
Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
Figurative language: language used by writers to produce images in readers’ minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways
Flashback: an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point
Foil: One that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another
Folk tale: a characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among a people
Foreshadowing: literary device by which an author explains certain plot developments that may come later in the story
Free verse: an open form that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
Genre: term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment
Gothic tale: genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism.
Hyperbole: use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
Imagery: use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
Implication: the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.
Incongruity: out of place
Inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Irony: figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words
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