I Am Here

I Am Here:

This first grading period I have been doing alright with everything. At first it was kinda hard with basketball everyday and coming home so tired. I look at my blog now and see that I am barely missing anything which is 1000x better than last semester. My smart goal is starting to fall into place with college right around the corner. My first semester I ended it with a 4.0 GPA which I am striving for again this semester. My groups senior project is just kicking into gear also. We have just contacted previous years students to ask for advice and to guide us. We are using Mariah Cooks, Chad Foster, and Max Kuhlman's project last year as a building block on what we want to accomplish. I am looking forward to continuing to grow as a student in this class. Bring on the AP Exam!!!!!

Lit. Terms 82-103

Lit Terms:82-103

• Omniscient Point of View- knowing all things, usually the third person
• Onomatopoeia- whose of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
• 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
• Pacing- rate of movement; tempo
• Parable- a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth
• Paradox- a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas
• 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 argument; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing
• Postmodernism- 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 doesn't 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
• 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
• 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 complication, advancement towards climax

Lit. Terms 57-81

LIT TERMS: 57-81

• 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: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
• 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 deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other. 
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.
• Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.
• 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(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.
• 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.
• Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.
• Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology 
• 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.
• Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.