Epitaph: Any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on their tombstone
Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character, characteristics
Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt
Evocation (Evocative): A calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality
Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation
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: from Latin word " to deceive", a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound
Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax
Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue
Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile)
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 down 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: 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 is not fully explicitly stated by the author
Incongruity: the deliberate joining of elements that are not appropriate to each other
Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possess some degree of probability according to the 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.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
What's the Story?
Why did Charles Dickens write the novel (Great Expectations) you're reading/reviewing?
Great Expectations is somewhat like an epitome to people's hopes and expectations. We've been there and realized it's not going to happen. This happens to Pip many times before the thought of loneliness and justification penetrates his mindset. Dickens sets forth with how one character such as Estella treats Pip, with every encounter calling him 'boy.' Repetition throughout the story with the word 'boy' evenly reminds Pip how small the world can think and how one character can shutdown those expectations at the sight of speech than true appearance. You could say that physical appearance, their phenotype, is a fallacy within itself. Dickens wants the reader to reveal the true inner person of every individual you might encounter, so the same goes with Pip's experiences. Aside from people's looks, colloquialism is also a big thing. There's so much to learn and distinguish from folksy speech. Local language, depending on the place Pip visits, is the thing that gets Pip to realize that the world he lives in isn't secluded as much as thinks so. Great Expectations as a whole can be seen as ambiguous for certain events of life. As innocent as we may be, we can't abandon a request with strangers and there's a certain urge to know more. Even though it may be forceful, the presence of learning one's lives makes the readers want to interpret the character's lives and their's as well.
Great Expectations is somewhat like an epitome to people's hopes and expectations. We've been there and realized it's not going to happen. This happens to Pip many times before the thought of loneliness and justification penetrates his mindset. Dickens sets forth with how one character such as Estella treats Pip, with every encounter calling him 'boy.' Repetition throughout the story with the word 'boy' evenly reminds Pip how small the world can think and how one character can shutdown those expectations at the sight of speech than true appearance. You could say that physical appearance, their phenotype, is a fallacy within itself. Dickens wants the reader to reveal the true inner person of every individual you might encounter, so the same goes with Pip's experiences. Aside from people's looks, colloquialism is also a big thing. There's so much to learn and distinguish from folksy speech. Local language, depending on the place Pip visits, is the thing that gets Pip to realize that the world he lives in isn't secluded as much as thinks so. Great Expectations as a whole can be seen as ambiguous for certain events of life. As innocent as we may be, we can't abandon a request with strangers and there's a certain urge to know more. Even though it may be forceful, the presence of learning one's lives makes the readers want to interpret the character's lives and their's as well.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Lit Terms 2 Remix
Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served
Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance
Cliche': a phrase or situation overused within society
Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved
Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in formal conversation
Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcial, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter
Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
Denotation: plain dictionary definition
Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, conclusion, closure
Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others
Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth
Dichotomy: split or break between opposing things
Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words
Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education
Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and priniciples
Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.
Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time
Epigram: witty aphorism
remix coming soon
Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance
Cliche': a phrase or situation overused within society
Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved
Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in formal conversation
Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcial, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter
Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
Denotation: plain dictionary definition
Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, conclusion, closure
Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others
Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth
Dichotomy: split or break between opposing things
Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words
Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education
Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and priniciples
Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.
Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time
Epigram: witty aphorism
remix coming soon
Reading Reflections so far about Great Expectations
I'm reading along within the text along with keeping in check with the characters based on lecture notes. The novel seems to go somewhere, but I haven't to the point where Pip officially says why he hangs out with Magwitch. From the context of Pip's sister, the attitude she gives off suggests that she has given up on him; loss of trust and degrading relationship maybe. Also from the lecture notes, there are connections to Pip and Pip's sister being the mother and infant that Joe drew from wedlock. I have yet to meet Ms. Haversham and Estella and their presence of Pip's fantasy.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
What to Expect from Great Expectation Notes
What to Expect
- bilundungsroman: from adolescent to an adult growth
- information of the culture in which it was produced
- pschology
Pip Characteristics
- childhood fantasy: Pip expects something of his life of fantasy/ideals
- Pip is orphaned and strong sense of unwanted
- -trait to that of intelligence, grander goals
- -looks at the world of apprenticeship
- -aware of being persecuted/taken advantage of
- -no sense of normality/regularity
- -vulnerable to male adults as father figures
- -takes in those guy's personalities
Antagonist (sort of)
- Magwich - boogeyman in form of stranger
- implies selfishness, wickedness lack of manners
- a threat of abandonment
- association with one guy and not sticking to what he is; he might this guy
- Ms. Havisham - witch
- dual identity, having shame, ruse
- one side shining promise, other side gloomy
- sacrificed life for memorialized wedding
- at a loss
Pip's love and guidance to life/adulthood
- Pip meets Estella
- plays "Beggar your neighbor" game
- Havisham uses Estella to avenge the wedding ceremony
- Pip learns about her adulthood
- -not truthful/nondisclosure
- -insecure about what is going in his life
- -archetypical character mindset
Arrival at London
- Pip meets father characters: Joe and Jaggers
- in continuum
Masterpiece and Network Talks
Guadalupe: Reading, Literacy, Communication, Animal Cruelty
- explain how reading affecting her life
- How Reading Defines Life by Oscar Wilde
- Local library - book club for kids
- Asking students at RHS, middle schools about what they think about reading
- document entire literacy path
- -show that kids are still reading
- “Meet the Author”
Erica: cultural enrichment and diversity through transmedia
- Danielle and her are doing different parts of the “quill”, but are the same in some ways
- unique in a way
- 21st century - social media (Twitter)
- #hastag, showing participants creations, crafts of pictures with pictures
- #SpreadTheLove - to show our humanity and love, and how we’re all the same
- cut out the heart (photo)
- incorporate videos and pictures, Laura from the UK is going to make a track
- Danielle and Erica are making a video with the original soundtrack
Yesenia: Language, History, Community Involvement
- translate book from early Guadalupe history
- Dunes Center - events, hikes
- opportunities - outreach, personal setup hikes, Erica as photographer
Lit Terms 1
Allegory: a tale in a prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideals 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, place, event, or literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize
Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation
Anachronism: Something that shows up at the wrong place or 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 who opposes 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 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 of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order
Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words
Allusion: a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize
Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation
Anachronism: Something that shows up at the wrong place or 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 who opposes 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 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 of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order
"All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap"
The quote in the title of the post is from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
What J.D. Salinger means by the quote is that there are always diverse personalities among people. Every human being has their own way of living life and facing the events they tread along. Basically, all characters in their respective book and setting are original. Thus saying, Salinger implies that Holden in Catcher in the Rye is a long ways distant to the protagonist of David Copperfield. Dickens' style of distinguishing a person motives of the standard of living. If you think about how one lives, David Copperfield lives without a father figure and a broken family. Holden on the other hand suffers at his own hand to recognize that his snottiness toward his family's fortune is taken for granted.
Both characters are different in ways of how they deal with money and family relations. The protagonists' opinions of the situations they are in are shortcomings and unforgivable in most instances. Just the thought of dealing with the unfair life leads them to believe in their own matters. Charles Dickens apprehends Pip's motives of seeking family, but always gets caught in his own fantasy, simply losing sight of his goals.
What J.D. Salinger means by the quote is that there are always diverse personalities among people. Every human being has their own way of living life and facing the events they tread along. Basically, all characters in their respective book and setting are original. Thus saying, Salinger implies that Holden in Catcher in the Rye is a long ways distant to the protagonist of David Copperfield. Dickens' style of distinguishing a person motives of the standard of living. If you think about how one lives, David Copperfield lives without a father figure and a broken family. Holden on the other hand suffers at his own hand to recognize that his snottiness toward his family's fortune is taken for granted.
Both characters are different in ways of how they deal with money and family relations. The protagonists' opinions of the situations they are in are shortcomings and unforgivable in most instances. Just the thought of dealing with the unfair life leads them to believe in their own matters. Charles Dickens apprehends Pip's motives of seeking family, but always gets caught in his own fantasy, simply losing sight of his goals.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Hacking My Education
How original are we? We can be very original. You can say we like the same topics as everyone else, but in remixed versions. From here on out, it's going to be the traditional AP rigor classroom setting. There's a difference in what we do in English though. We're actually going to be in the effort of formatting a masterpiece and answering those desired big questions.
We're original to move ahead of the basics. Open Source Learning is no other network. It's a misinterpreted hacking community. The hackers out there doing no good on the news are totally different from what we intend to do.
We're here to tell our story. To hack education. Get down to the roots and squash the beliefs of learning like a rebel without a cause. I'm a rebel who wants to go somewhere in life. They're called dreams and goals, which are open to connections and options. I want to continue what I do best.
Obtaining an education my own way.
We're original to move ahead of the basics. Open Source Learning is no other network. It's a misinterpreted hacking community. The hackers out there doing no good on the news are totally different from what we intend to do.
We're here to tell our story. To hack education. Get down to the roots and squash the beliefs of learning like a rebel without a cause. I'm a rebel who wants to go somewhere in life. They're called dreams and goals, which are open to connections and options. I want to continue what I do best.
Obtaining an education my own way.
Take it from Harry Potter...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
New Year, DO Year!
I have a lot of free time from what I'm foreseeing given my position. A student living the school life of grades. Boring! Because this year is new, I feel the need to stay interactive. You could say its a New Year's Resolution, I say "Bring it on!" 18 years of my life wasn't spent to waste away senior year. Sure, here in RHS, we have Sadies, Prom, Grad Nite, and other things that seniors intend to go because its our last year. My short term goals for the remaining of my high school year is to save up college money, apply to scholarships, and involve many people to 5PH1NX. We'll see how this is going to pan out and try to make this an interesting senior year. It's not about academics for the most part, but making every last moment last. It's time to get busy!
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