Rest of Lit Terms

101. Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

102. Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

103. Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

104. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

105. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

106. Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

108. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

109. 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.

110. Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

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

113. Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

114. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

116. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

117. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

118. 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.

119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

120. Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

121. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.

122. 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.

123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

124. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

128. Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).

129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved
or disproved; the main idea.

130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the        
author’s perceived point of view.

131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

132. 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

133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

134. Vernacular: everyday speech

135. Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

136. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

1st Quarter Review

Wow this quarter has been hectic, with the scholarships, constant checking of acceptances, job applications and blog work. Although it was stressful at times it will be all worth it later. In the course I have tried to keep up but need a little more work finishing assignments on due dates.

Class Rank

Rosa Alvarez- no posts since December 

Amanda Arnold- good job seems up to date

Will Boerger- looks good just missing sum assignments for this sem

Rheanna crawley- looks like you got almost everything assigned for the sem good job

Michelle Crosby- I think your only missing maybe one or two assignments so great job

Vince Cruz- keep the good work up

Jose de leon- your new so can’t say too much other than good luck

Lizbeth Estrada- missing a good chunk of lit terms

Kaitlyn furst- no February posts

Illiana Guitierrez- great just need rest of lit terms

Mckenzie Greeley- highest 2013 posts in our class I think, keep it up

Tailor giego- need to catch up

John Han- seems like your keeping up to date

Elizabeth Hotchkiss- good job

Pablo nicassio- missing posts

Elisabeth pereyra- up to date 

Me- missing a few assignments

Torri Reddeck- no posts for Feb

Alex Ramirez- awesome job

Christa west – keep it up

Lit Terms 81-100

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


83. Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its
meaning.

84. 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.

85. Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

86. Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

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

88. Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

89. Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

90. Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

91. Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

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

93. Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

94. Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

95. 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.

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

97. Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

98. Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

99. Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

100. Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Lit terms 56-81

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

58. Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.
 
59. Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

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

61. 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.

62. Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue.

66. Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

67. Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

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

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

70. Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different
things imaginatively.
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.

71. Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.

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

73. Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

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

75. Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

76. Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

77. Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

78. Narrative:  a story or description of events.

79. Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

80. Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

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

The Time of My Life

Today we mostly spoke of our Smart Goals and what we would do to achieve them. We also talked about how far we have gotten so far to achieve our goal which was mostly very little mainly, because it we had just come up with them. And we also spoke of the AP exam, Scholarships, and college deadlines.

Literary Analysis "The Grapes of Wrath"

General: 1. The book begins with Tom Joad hitching a ride from a trucker after being released from Prison. Tom was put into prison after getting into a fight at a bar and hitting someone with a shovel. Once arriving to his town he begins walking home where he sees his neighbor who tells Tom of how a drought led to many former residents to not be able to pay banks and have their land taken. After learning of this news Tom quickly heads home to find that they were already preparing to leave. His family reveals that they weren’t able to pay the bank either and headed to California after receiving pamphlets stating work and a better life there. The Joad family finishes packing and leave to California with their old pastor tagging along. On their trek to California the family goes through many hardships like the death of their grandparents. They also realize that the abundant work and easy life the fliers promised is the complete opposite with hostel people, no work, no food, and nowhere to live. The novel ends with the family huddled under a barn escaping the rain with nothing else but each other to keep from collapsing. 2. The theme of “The Grapes of Wrath” was interdependence of family as the Joad family relied on each other to get through their extremely difficult journey. And in the end it was basically what kept them alive when California wasn’t what they expected. 3. The tone of the book was very dark and gloomy as the family goes through a bombardment of obstacles and unfortunate events throughout the plot. • “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” • To California or any place, everyone a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day, the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. pg. 91-92 • If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones. pg.394 4. Setting-The book takes place during the infamous Dust Bowl and Great Depression. First starting out in Oklahoma and through the states to California. “Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66 – the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield –over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into the mountains, crossing the Divide and down in to the bright and terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into the rich California valleys.” CH.12 Allegory: The turtle at the beginning of the novel is a metaphor of the Joad’s family difficult trek to California. ”For a long moment the lay still, and then the neck crept out and the old humorous frowning eyes looked about and the legs and tail came out.” CH 3 Tone: The tone of the book was very dark and gloomy as the family goes through a bombardment of obstacles and unfortunate events throughout the plot. “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed Mood: The mood like the tone is very dark and gloomy also. To California or any place, everyone a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day, the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it Imagery: The imagery of the novel further helps express the gravity of the family’s situation. “In the daylight [the migrant people] scuttled like bugs to the westward; and as the dark caught them, they clustered like bugs near to shelter and to water...But along the highway the cars of the migrant people crawled out like bugs.” Diction: The author’s diction is full of colloquialisms that portray the characters how they truly would have spoken at that time. "Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it." CH 18 Syntax: "Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes." Symbolism: In Steinback’s writing many symbols are used to represent the Joad’s family situation. “In the daylight [the migrant people] scuttled like bugs to the westward; and as the dark caught them, they clustered like bugs near to shelter and to water...But along the highway the cars of the migrant people crawled out like bugs.” Metaphor: The author does many comparisons of other things or objects with the Joad family situation. “In the daylight [the migrant people] scuttled like bugs to the westward; and as the dark caught them, they clustered like bugs near to shelter and to water...But along the highway the cars of the migrant people crawled out like bugs.” Characterization: 1. Direct Characterization-“He was not over thirty. His eyes were very dark brown and there was a hint of brown pigment in his eyeballs. His cheek bones were high and wide, and strong deep lines cut down his cheeks, in curves beside his mouth. His upper lip was long, and since his teeth protruded, the lips stretched to cover them, for this man kept his lips closed. His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells. The space between thumb and forefinger and the hams of his hands were shiny with callus.” Direct Characterization- He wore a pair of new tan shoes of the kind called "army last," hob-nailed and with half-circles like horseshoes to protect the edges of the heels from wear. Indirect Characterization- The driver, getting slowly into the truck, considered the parts of this answer. If he refused now, not only was he not a good guy, but he was forced to carry a sticker, was not allowed to have company. Indirect Characterization- "New shoes," said the driver. His voice had the same quality of secrecy and insinuation his eyes had. "You oughtn' to take no walk in new shoes—hot weather." The hiker looked down at the dusty yellow shoes. "Didn't have no other shoes," he said. "Guy got to wear 'em if he got no others." 2. The authors diction does not change in the novel as the main dialogue comes from the Joad family who have a Oklahoma farmer type accent. 3. Most of the characters in the novel are static except for maybe one which would be Rose who changes from foolish optimism to serious realistic. 4. From the book I came with that in our society there is always the people we make our slaves but always hate and in the years to come someone writes a book about it and we say things like “Oh how sad how could we have been so ignorant.” When ironically we repeat the same actions over and over again. For example Egyptians and Slaves, Americans with slaves, Americans with Dust Bowl migrants, and again Americans with Hispanic Immigrant workers.