Final Paper

1. In this course we have been treated as colleagues among one another and among Dr. Preston. With this comes a high level of trust. I think we have all deserved this level of trust after spending many years in an education system without trust. Along with this, I think we have also honored it immensely because we finally got the freedom to control our own learning.

2. One piece of literary work that we read that I feel like really describes part of my journey was Hamlet. I felt like in a way, a lot of what he went through is still very relateable to the modern day teenager.

3. I have reconnected with a passion that drives me. I feel like throughout this year I have been put in a lot of positions where I have to remind myself to be kind and to give kindness and I feel like that is a big part of my passion. Not only is it to give a helping hand to the people around me, but also to all of the creatures that we share Earth with.

4. One thing about this course that made me laugh to myself are all of our side conversations as well as mine and Haleys comments to each other throughout each class period.

5. A unifying theme between at least 5 presentations is the human behavior, such as how and why we think certain things, how we adapt, how we percieve things, etc.

6. I feel like I responded to my call to adventure extremely well. I saw an opportunity being placed in front of me and I soaked up all of the adventure that lied within it to the absolute best of my ability.

Richard Cory Analysis

Title: The title "Richard Cory" is a good lead into the poem. Much like in many poems it isn't very ambiguous and after reading the poem it's easy to understand the meaning behind the title. Although this is sort of what the poem is about, it's much more about the people who are watching him because they see Richard Cory as a standard in which they are trying to reach. 

Diction: Creates a rhythmic diction by rhyming every other line. He uses indirect characterization and is able to through his diction. The author didn't use extremely advanced diction but it was very proper. What made his diction stand out is the way he put his words together.

Shift: Shift occurs in last paragraph. His diction becomes bland and begins to talk more about those watching him and what they are doing rather than Richard Cory and what he was doing. After the shift author used understatement when he says Richard Cory kills himself. 

Tone: The tone of Richard Cory is created by the authors diction. I feel that the tone is quietly observant. It seems to be written from an outside point of view, somebody or a group of people who has been watching Richard Cory. 

Poetry Multiple Choice Practce

1. C- determined rage

2. A- Line 16

3. B- Challenging Preparedness

4. A- The various ways of characterization of men 

5. E- "Men... Sun in flight."

1. C- An allegory for human idiosyncrasies 

3. D- Satirical Exposition 

4. B- Admonition

5. C- Euphimism 

6. B-Alert

7. B- Line 13

8. E- Fantastically human 

9. A- meant the piece to be a statement 

10. E- Satirical disapproval 

Macbeth

Play is about deceit and power struggles. 

Lady Macbeth dies, Macbeth a brutal death, everyone wants him dead. 

Play comes back around full circle to the beginning when Macbeth was a brutal force

Until Macbeth is dead the Great Chain of Being is interrupted 

Macbeths morals

   -Feels trapped after 1st murder, lady Macvbwth and himself gets a lot more tense 

    -Continues to compound wrong doings throughout play and betrays friends and mental morality 

    -Relationships drive him to breakdown and disconnect from reality 

Macbeth brought suffering on others and brought instant karma upon himself, creates his own world of chaos. 

Appeal of death 

    -unambiguous 

    -ultimate punishment 

    -reinforces cultural message 

    -shows a more severe version of life 

    -makes reality less severe 

MacBeth Notes

"The great chain of being"-influences all actions in plays; differentiates good from bad and moral from immoral 

"Fair is foul and foul is fair" - considered action theme of play; literary device chiasmus 

Written for King James I and Shakespeare catered to his style

Also catered to readings when he referenced the devil and evil beings because they were seen as very real in this time period. 

Scene 1/2/3

 -Macbeth indirectly characterized (kills a lot of ppl)

 -MacBeth is going to be promoted situational irony reveals that audience knows but Macbeth doesn't 

 -Lady MacBeth is overall the evil character, not Mac Beth himself he is seen as the warrior, the power behind the throne lies in his wife 

 -"thane" is a noble term 

-Banquo jealous of Macbeths prophecy and questions why he isn't given a prophecy similar to Macbeths 

-Macbeth feels like if he's starting to become king he doesn't really need to do anything. But he's also thinking about what he can do to make it come faster. 

-"Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day" 

Poetry Analysis: Woman Work

Title: portrays the everyday work that the stereotypical woman does

Paraphrase: women are greatly under appreciated. All of the work that they do help fuel society and without it society wouldn't run as smoothly as it does.

Connotation: "Storm blow me from here.." This phrase stood out to me because the author is trying to portray how exhausted women are without directly coming out and saying it.

Attitude: The author's attitude seems to be very exhausted and almost sympathy seeking from the readers.

Shift: The tone/attitude of the author shifts after the the list of woman's duties is stated. Before this it very desperate and pleading and then after the author takes on a much more laid back and relaxed tone.

Title Revised: The title is a dead give away about what the poem is going to be about. The title is "Woman Work" and that is exactly what the poem is about.

Theme: I felt that there were two main themes throughout the poem. The first being that its okay to work hard, but its also okay to take a break from your work. The second theme I felt was significant is to not under appreciate the work that women do for the society.

Update: I should study

Multiple Choice Practice AP Test

Senior Ditch Day

Spent my Senior Ditch Day at this beautiful place working on my masterpiece. 

List Terms List #4

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.

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

Onomatopoeia: use 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.

Lit Terms List #3

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 on 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 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.

Lit terms list #2

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

Cliché: 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 informal conversation

Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, 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 (pronounced day-new-mahn): loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion

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 two 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 principles.

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 (definition bordering on circumlocution).

Epigram: witty aphorism.

Fun fact.

When Dickens wrote, his neighbors frequently called the cops. 

Great expectations notes

Pip transforms throughout story from boy to man. 

Pips an orphan so he imagines family because he didn't have his own. Has a very strong sense of being unwanted. 

Believes that family and marriage isn't enough for him but also isn't sure of himself. 

Fills fatherless void by adopting make characters as father figures and mirroring them. 

Magwitch- meets at church and is a prisoner. Acts like an animal and seems to be a selfish brutality about him. A potential for violence. Represents a fear of abandonment for Pip but pip also sees a version of himself

Havesham- witch like figure. Seems like a fairy god mother to Pip but is a symbol of horrible decay. Her house is stuck in a moment of time, hasn't touched anything since she was left at alter 

Begger your neighbor. 

Astella is Ms. Haveshams revenge. Pip falls in love with Astella. 

Characters remind pip of his own inadequacy. 

Siddhartha

1. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

2. Herman Hesse’s novels before Siddhartha focused on alienated young men who rejected the cultures of their upbringings. However, these other novels did not feature the spiritual elements of Siddhartha. How do the spiritual elements of Siddhartha make it different from any other story of an alienated youth?

3. Most literary scholars agree that Siddhartha was prompted by Herman Hesse’s fixation on Eastern spirituality. Is there a case to be made that Siddhartha is designed to celebrate Eastern religion? Is Hesse’s treatment of spirituality as relevant today as it was when he wrote the novel?

4. Siddhartha concerns the quest for spiritual enlightenment, and by the end of it four characters have achieved this goal: Govinda, Gotama, Vasudeva, and Siddhartha. Is the enlightenment achieved by each of these characters the same? Why or why not? What distinctions and similarities exist between the paths these characters use to reach their final goal?

5. Consider Siddhartha’s relationship with Govinda. How are they similar, and how are they different? What are the narrative functions of Govinda’s reappearance throughout the novel? How does their relationship impact the novel’s ending?

These questions tell me that the test is in depth and covers a wide range of topics and concepts.  

Siddhartha Notes

Finding himself, what he wants to do and where he wants to go

Brahamin is the highest social class in India so it shows how hard it was to leave family and identity behind. 

Central Message: discovering yourself on the way to your destination 

Tone: sorrow, yearning, self discovery

Beginning: self pity. End: panic/realization