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Hafta/Wanna

Similarities:

My outlook on life

My work ethic

My personality

Differences:

Time Management

I won’t have the distractions that I have now 

Living on my own

Responsible for myself

-I feel like after graduation many people will stay exactly the same as they were in high school. At first they may try to be different but we all have habits and we all usually fall back into the same patterns of living that we've had our whole lives.

-I feel like the things I want to do and the things I have to do are one in the same. If I want to do something it needs to be a priority and therefore something I have to do. My outlook on things must remain positive and I must maintain my determination because if i want something bad enough I can do anything.

-As I move on with my life I expect myself to remain true to who I am and the values I hold dear. I expect to never conform to the pressures of this world and not compromise who I am for anybody. 

Reading Quiz

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 

-He is a barber.

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread?

-He finds a nose in his loaf of bread. 

3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 

-She is enraged and threatens to call the police.

4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish? 

-He sets out to get rid of the nose. He finally decides to throw it off a bridge.

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? 

-It suggests about his life and society that they don't care about what’s right and wrong. They just care about themselves. Also, it shows that happiness can be taken away as fast as it comes.

6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?

-It belongs on the face of Collegiate Assessor Kovalev.

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism: the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

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:  excessive concern with minor details and rules

Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. 

Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.  

Poignant:  evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing. 

Postmodemism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple  meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary 

Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

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:stop oneself from doing something

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; denouement.

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 complications, advancement towards climax.

Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Scansion: the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.

Setting:  the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

Lit Terms #4

Interior Monologue: a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts.

Inversion: the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted

Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings.

Magic(al) Realism: a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical. 

Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Extended: a metaphor that is 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: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

Mode of Discourse: argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

Modernism: a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.

Monologue: an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem

Mood: the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

Motif: a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) 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: extreme form of realism; a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.

Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical. 

Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person. 

Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Pacing: consistent and continuous speed in walking, running, or moving

Parable:a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.

Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

Literature Analysis #4

The Invisible Man:

1.Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read according to the elements of plot you've learned in past courses (exposition, inciting incident, etc.).  Explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

-This story is about an African American man and the challenges that made him who he is and brought him to where he is now. The story is in “the South” during the 1920s. The man was really good at writing and public speaking and was given the chance at a young age to give a speech that helps him win a scholarship for college. While at college he became in charge of driving Mr. Norton, a wealthy white trustee at the college, around. One day Mr. Norton happens to overhear word on Jim Trueblood, an uneducated African American man who impregnated his own daughter and retreats to the Golden day. Word of this incident spreads to the college president who then expels the narrator. The narrator then moves to Harlem where he gets a job, until he gets hurt on the job and looses consciousness. He, then, recovers and joins a group called the Brotherhood, headed by Brother Jack. Once again bad things happen to him when the brotherhood begins to question the narrator’s motives for being  a part of the organization. Afraid, he hides from the Brotherhood. When he returns home, there is a riot and he falls in a hole. The police try to kill him and surround the hole where he fell. This last accident causes the narrator to look back on things and it gives him the motivation to do what he whatever he wants and tell his life story. By telling his story the narrator finally finds the strength within himself to come out of the hole because he stayed true to himself.          

2.Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.

-The main theme of the novel is to stay true to who you are. In the narrators case he was an African American man living in the south in the 1920’s. The conditions were bad and accepting the poor treatment towards blacks would have been easier for him but he never gave in. It was harder to speak out about the cruelty and make a change. It was a struggle he had to overcome in order to face himself and others.
-Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

-The narrator's tone sad but thoughtful, because of his constant reflection on the racism at the time and his many struggles.

- “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?” 

-“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”

CHARACTERIZATION 

3. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization.  Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)

-The narrator uses direct characterization because throughout the whole story he is describing his thoughts and actions.

4. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?  How?  Example(s)?

-The author did not change his town when he talked about other characters because the author is the main character and he is describing how he felt about things.
5. Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.

-The main character is dynamic because he faces problems with not conforming to racism. He is also a round character because he has so many qualities.
6. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?  Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction. 

-After reading this novel I have come away feeling like a have met the man not just read a story. 

Lit Terms #3

Exposition:a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

Expressionism:movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

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

Fallacy:a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument

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

Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

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.

Folk Tale: story passed on 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 no rhyme.

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

Gothic Tale:a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

Hyperbole:exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Imagery:figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.

Implication:a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

Incongruity: the state of being incongruous or out of keeping

Inference:a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Irony:a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.