Lit. Terms: List 3

exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic;a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree;coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; an act by a government body or supranational organization; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; the series of events that form a plot; the state of being active; a military engagement; a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; put in effect
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations; mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs; verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech;consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline;the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; (language) communication by word of mouth
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story; an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
foil - noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verbcover or back with foil; enhance by contrast;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor; a social division of (usually preliterate) people
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic;noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; not held in servitude; not occupied or in use; not fixed in position; not taken up by scheduled activities; costing nothing; adv.without restraint; noun people who are free; verbfree or remove obstruction from; grant freedom to; free from confinement; free from obligations or duties; make (information) available publication; make (assets) available; let off the hook; remove or force out from a position; part with a possession or right; relieve from; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false;something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Lit Terms: List 2

Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Cliché - noun a phrase or situation overused in society 
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play; arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; the most severe stage of a disease; the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse; verb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Colloquialism - noun a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;a disagreement or argument about something important; verb go against, as of rules and laws;be in conflict
Connotation - noun an idea that is implied or suggested; what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; a conceptual separation or distinction; verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work;the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - adj. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying

Great Expectations

Tuesday, January 19th

-Novel of education- abulding's romon

-Pip is an orphan imagining his family life, but doesn't have one

-He feels different

-He reacts more intelligently to situations than others his age

-He looks at people who apprentice, work for a living, and has family, and believes his above that because that's not enough for him

-He's not too sure about himself, he thinks he's not very good to start off with because why would his parents leave him

-He feels being fatherless and adopts role models like Joe and Maguitch

-Maguitch- bogey man, adult that parents want to protect their kids from

-Meets Pip at the church, he's a prisoner, eats like a dog (he's an animal) 

-Maguitch represents the potential for Pip to be alone again, fear of abandonment

-Pip sees a version of himself in Maguitch and thinks he could become him, but knows he doesn't want to

-Ms. Havasham (have shame?)- witch-like, adopted Estella, women of means, fairy god-mother like

-Her house is a memorial that represents fertility

-Hasn't moved anything in the house since she was left at the alter

-Pip plays "begger your neighbor" with Estella. 

-Ms. Havasham has brought Estella up to destroy men. Estella is Havasham's revenge. 

-Pip looks at Havasham as a good person because she's rich and adopted Estella. 

-Ms. Havasham and Maguitch fade away in the book

-Pip goes to London

-Joe and Jaggers come into perspective as father figures for Pip

-The letter is J is interchangable for the letter I. As the story goes, Pip seems himself in those characters. 

-Both characters power lies in potential than actual use

-Joe is strong, Jaggers could blackmail

-Joe- blacksmith, looks at situations and applies his feeling, doesn't judge people by their appearances, not a success with money, but is happy in life

-Jaggers- lives by the letter of the law, and breaks everything down into evidence

-Joe and Jaggers = foils?

-Wemmick is different at home than work. At home, he's a gentle son and is more like Joe's world. At work (Jagger's office) he's cut and dry and thinks of money as an advantage. 

-Maguitch comes back in Ch. 42 with a different perspective

-Estella is not intended for Pip, he was apart of her training process

-She's a daughter of a criminal

-Pip's expectations weren't his own, he adopted suggestions from Maguitch

-Pip was happy Orlic attacked Mrs. Joe cause he saw she was evil

-Orlic then attacks Pip

-Pip is a fantasist, not a realist

-Pip wants the benefits of life without the risks

-He separates himself from people who care about him and turns into a snob

-Pip confesses the problems of his youth and says he'll tell us his history so he doesn't have to repeat it

-Pip paints a portrait of himself so he knows what he looks like

-Pip and Estella are a middle aged couple who's failed, at best

-Joe has married Bitty and produced a child name Pip

-A Pip is a seed that hasn't yet become

-We watch something grow in real time (as a protagonist)

Friday, January 23rd

-When Dickens wrote, his neighbors frequently called the cops

-Dickens would play out his characters by yelling, screaming, jump on top of his piano and yell in character

-"I'm just taking notes at this great concert inside my head." - Jim Morrison, The Doors

CHARLES DICKENS

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Literary Terms: Week One

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words

Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

Analogy: a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them

Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny

Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point

Antagonist: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative

Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Apologia: a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology

Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself

Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true

Audience: the intended listener or listeners

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character’s personality

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order off words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

HACKING MY EDUCATION

I'd love for this semester to flow as smoothly as last semester did. As we come to a near end of our senior year, I'd like to go out with a "bang" and not only get a 4.0+, but pass the AP exam. In order to do this, I know I'm going to have to read different types of novels like Macbeth or Great Expectations.  

Masterpiece Talk - Stevie Wisz

Hers is about spreading quality Medicare via doctors and medical facilities to countries that are scarce of it. To do this she is going to speak to teachers and doctors and ask for help in her quest and also to see if they have any links that could help her be even more successful. 

Masterpiece Talk - Courtney Reyburn

Her's is about special Olympics. She wants to make it so that the "normal" society can look at those with special needs as normal people. So in order for this to happen we need to have more inclusion so she is going to plan some events and get as many as we can to attend alongside those with special needs so one thing she wants to do is a dance where each student with special needs gets asked by one of us and then we have a big dance and another thing is a big soccer game but have everything normal like a regular soccer game just special needs kids are mixed in the some of the regular soccer players and then finally at the end of the year during the summer she wants to get a big group of kids to go and support them at the world games and raise money to stay for a few nights in a hotel. 

Masterpiece Talk - Ashlyn Bishop

Her topic for her masterpiece is body image (media advertising, competition, effects, goal/attitudes).

As a teenage girl in high school, she feels like our appearance and body image is really important to (most of) us and feels like this topic has become even more important over the past year. Every social media site gossips about body types and features, what makes someone "hot" and what makes someone "ugly". It's a competition out there that has highly impacted many people (specifically teens) emotionally, mentally, and physically. She wants to create an online survey and ask personal questions in order to show society how it has an effect on individuals. 

My Masterpiece

• Growing up in a small town like Santa Maria, I've quickly realized that there isn't many "fun" things for teenagers to do. Many times, hanging out result in drugs, alcohol, and getting into trouble. There are constant questions between friends, "What should we do tonight?" "What is there to do this weekend?" The most popular answers would either be nothing, or to go to a party. The few things that there are to do cost money that most of us don't always have. My goal is to create a positive atmosphere where teens can have fun sober. I'm not quite sure what direction to go in because there's already places like the Abel Maldonado Center and such, but I would like to collaborate with someone, like CJ from Fighting Back Santa Maria, to get something started.

• I've became so engaged in this topic because there's been a countless number of times where I've been with my friends searching for hours for things to do. We always result in settling to stay at home, bored, or do something we probably shouldn't be doing. I care about this so much because I don't want younger kids (like my younger brother, or even my younger cousins) to grow up like this. I'd rather have them hanging out at a place where they can have fun other than out getting into trouble with drugs/alcohol. 

• This topic can both enrich my life and others in this community. I can abhere a positive environment for kids and end drug and alcohol abuse for teenagers. I know it's a struggle in this community and with this project, we can be one step closer to engaging awareness to end it. 

• I believe the academic discipline needed for this will be social experience. I'm definitely going to have to talk to a bunch of different people to make those connections. Also, maybe some experience in Recreational Studies. 

• My whole plan is still all up in the air, but I know the CJ (Chastity Johnson) who works for Fighting Back Santa Maria will definitely be more than happy to help me out with this. I already know her at a personal level as well. 

• Resources I'll need are positive attitudes for one! I won't be able to accomplish this if kids don't want to listen. Being one myself, I know teenagers take the "cool" route and just shake off anything that is told to them about alcohol and drugs because they're too stubborn to listen and think they know it all. Major resources I'll need are something like a recreational building and equipment for activities. 

• For my project, I can continue using this blog as both my lit&comp blog and a blog for my idea. I have some ideas that would be cool, but I'm not sure what's out there.