Lit. Terms #6 Remix

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: cliché; 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 irrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

Suspension of Disbelief:  suspend disbelief in order to enjoy something.

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(s).

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 Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; also called
"dry" or "dead pan"

Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) 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 pesona.

Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

HAFTA/WANNA

One of the questions I have been constantly asked this year is “How does it feel to be a senior?” I simply respond good, and stressful. The real response should be…not much different. There were some changes this year that I most certainly label as “life-changing” and “learning experiences” but when I think about it I am in the same environment I was in for the last three years. The transition from high school to college will be different in the way that I will have more freedom with my education and my life in general. For the most part I will have control over an aspect of my life. In fact, it is probably the most control and freedom I am going to have in my 17 years of life. When I go off to college the Erica that I “left” after high school graduation will come with me. There will certainly be aspects of my life that I will work on changing, but I will not completely transform into another person. There are things that I am going to have to do to mold myself into my college life, but molding is different from changing. And even  “self-molding” will take some time. I have no rush and I am pretty good at balancing my time. For the most part I do what I have to do first and then I do what I want. It is very rare when that is reversed. I see what I have to do as a “must” and what I want to do as a reward. I am also very good about taking breaks and slowing down if I feel like I am burning my self out. I have very high expectations for myself and at times can be very hard on my self for the same reason. Throughout the years I have learned to give myself credit and reward myself once in a while. I know that my high expectations and work ethic will allow me to conquer my goals one step at a time.

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

QUIZ

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.

3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 
-She was surprised and asked him Ivan whose nose he had cut off. She began to blame him and said that it was one of his customer’s nose.

4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish?
-He want to get rid of the nose as soon as possible.

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? 
-The moment of happiness represents the relief in Ivan. It lets the reader know that like any other human being Ivan is preoccupied on what other people would think of him if he did something wrong (like having someone else’s nose). The nose is a conflict, and getting rid of the conflict is what Ivan wanted.


6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?   
-The nose belongs on the Majors face, and it finally gets there when the police finds it and returns it to him.                                                                                                                                                

LAUNCH/DRAFT

1. What am I passionate about?  What do I want to do?

Something that I have always found very fulfilling and I enjoy doing is helping others, motivating others or making people laugh, and smile. I want to do that for the rest of my life. As of for now I am going to keep working on my compassion project, because I want to keep learning about the topic.

As for the future I am unsure of how I am going to fit that into my career, but I think I can make it work. I have applied as a Public Health Sciences major or something along those lines to all the universities I have applied to, but I am not exactly sure what my profession is going to be. I can head in many directions, but I am unsure of which would lead me to what I love to do daily. 

2. How can I use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)?

In many ways I use the Internet to communicate and collaborate with others. Through media I was able to add a video to my compassion project. Through the Internet I was able to share my ideas and my peers’ ideas and thoughts on compassion. The blog for this course has allowed me to become comfortable and familiar to the Internet and sharing my ideas and work on it than I ever was before. This semester I plan to collaborate with Miranda Nillo on my project and get more ideas and thoughts from different people, from different ages, and from different places.

3. What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?

By June I will have finished the Compassion Project with input from various age groups, a better understanding of compassion, and a eye-opening video that will make people jump out of their seats and want to practice being compassionate. I am still gathering my thoughts on how I am going to do this, but I am very exited and I can’t wait to get back on the job.

4. What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?

If this video project could actually get people to practice being more compassionate would be wonderful and very impressive. I am not quite sure what else would be impressive. I mean maybe if it could become a commercial or something of that sort.

5. How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?

I honestly have no idea. All I want is for this project to be seen by people and to make a tiny difference in them, to influence compassion, to trigger a feeling of kindness, or to make someone smile. Once I have the final hard copy of the project I will probably put it up on the Social Media like my blog, Facebook, and You Tube.

6. Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?

Everyone that I ask for their opinions and thoughts will be in my learning network. I am learning from everybody. I am learning that compassion means very different things to many different people. I am learning from adults, teenagers, and children, from all ages and all ethnicities. Miranda Nillo and I will be collaborating to make this project happen. 

Lit. Terms #5 REMIX

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 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:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not 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.

"Just move on up
Move on up
What move on up
Oh child but just a move on up
Just move on up
Move on up"

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: 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.