Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Literature Analysis #7
Literature Analysis #7
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston
1. After a long absence, Janie Crawford is now back at Eatonville, Florida. People gossip about her and her young husband, Tea Cake. Her grandmother's wants to marry Janie and finds the perfect fit, Logan Killicks. One day, Joe Starks and Janie flirt and she runs off with him and they get married. They travel to Eatonville where Jody hopes to have a “big voice.” Jody makes some negative comments about Janie's appearance, so she does the same. Jody beats her for making fun of him and their marriage breaks down. Jody gets ill and he soon dies. Janie feels free for the first time in years. Later when she encouters Tea Cake, a man twelve years her junior, Janie is attracted to him. Despite negative gossip people made, she begins dating Tea Cake. Janie marries Tea Cake and leaves town to go with Tea Cake to Jacksonville. A terrible hurricane takes place in the Everglades, and as they flee the rising waters, a rabid dog bites Tea Cake. Tea Cake doesn’t realize the dog’s condition and three weeks later, he falls ill. Tea Cake becomes convinced that Janie is cheating on him. He shoots at Janie, and in order to save herself, she kills him. She is put on trial for murder but all-male jury finds her not guilty.
2. One of the themes in this book is about gender issues. Janie needs to get married to a man so that her life would be safe. This leads to the idea that women are dependent on men to protect them.
3.Hurston’s main tones are celebratory and sympathy of the richness of African-American culture.
4. 1)Allusion: The author makes references to the, Civil War, General Sherman Eatonville, Florida, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Booker T. Washington
2) Metaphor: "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches."
3)Foreshadow: "Nanny sent Janie along with a stern mien, but she dwindled all the rest of the day as she worked. And when she [Nanny] gained the privacy of her own little shack she stayed on her knees so long she forgot she was there herself….Towards morning she muttered, "Lawd, you know mah heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." She scuffled up from her knees and fell heavily across the bed. A month later she was dead.
4)Imagery : "She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid."
5)Symbolism: the head-rag Janie wears represents the constraints imposed on women by men in power.
FIRST QUARTER REVIEW
This first quarter has passed soooo quickly! In this class, lit terms, SMART goals, and Dickens have been prevalent .... With the curve ball, 'writing as a spectator sport', keeping us all on our toes. I have completed all of the assigned work and have been collaborating with Chanel and Ashley for our senior project. The days we have free play have been utilized to talk about our SMART goals among our groups. I think that the new, more independent, approach to learning is VERY beneficial and allows each of us to learn in a way that best suits us :)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Lit Terms 109-the rest
1. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer ot not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
Example: "Yes. Why not?"
"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"--From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.
"Are you serious?"
2. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax.
3. Romanticism: movement in western culture begining in the eighteenth and pearking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.
Example: Jane Austen's Persuasion; Mansfield Park
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Height
4. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of indivduals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
Example: "The city stopped washing its buses because they kept getting dirty again."
"We should hire illegal immigrants as teachers because that way we can pay them less."
5. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
6. Setting: the time and place in whcih events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.
Example: A Tale Of Two Cities-London and Paris 1775-1790
background French Revolution
7. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Example: "My stomach is growling like a bear."
"You are as sweet as chocolate."
8. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Example: "To be or not to be"--Hamlet; Shakespeare
"O conspiracy,
Sham' st thou to show thy dan'rous brow by night,
When evils are most free? O, then by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
Hide it in smiles and affability:
For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Not Erebus itself were dim enough
To hide thee from prevention."
--Brutus
9. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
10. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Example: narrator
11. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Example: "All teenagers are rebels."
"All children don't enjoy healthy food."
" Women take forever to do anything."
12. 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.
Example: "Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June."
-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
13. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
14. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
Example: Jane Austen--romantic; gothic; heroic
F.Scott Fitzgerald--imaginary sentences; american dream
15. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
Example: "Even though the broccoli was covered in cheddar cheese, Emily refused to eat it." (subordinate clause+main clause)
"Unless Kate finished her calculus hw, she will have to suffer during class tomorrow."
16. 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.
Example: Salvador Dali--The Persistence of Memory
17. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Example: Spider Man; Super Man
18. Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own.
Example: Flag is the symbol of the country.
Red-bloody; The Red Badge Of Courage-the tranformation(fail to success) of Henry Fleming and honor.
19. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Example: "I see the sound of the car."
"I catch the sound of rain."
20. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Example: Wheels-Car
Thread-Clothes
Hand-Worker
21. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
22. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).
23. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disaproved: the main idea.
24. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.
Example: "Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
"Caltholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic."--Catcher in the Rye:Bitter; Sacrastic; Tough
25. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan".
26. Tradegy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusions; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically(fatally) flawed.
27. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
28. Vernacular: everyday speech
29. Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.
30. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history.
Example: "Yes. Why not?"
"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"--From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.
"Are you serious?"
2. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax.
3. Romanticism: movement in western culture begining in the eighteenth and pearking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.
Example: Jane Austen's Persuasion; Mansfield Park
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Height
4. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of indivduals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
Example: "The city stopped washing its buses because they kept getting dirty again."
"We should hire illegal immigrants as teachers because that way we can pay them less."
5. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
6. Setting: the time and place in whcih events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.
Example: A Tale Of Two Cities-London and Paris 1775-1790
background French Revolution
7. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Example: "My stomach is growling like a bear."
"You are as sweet as chocolate."
8. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Example: "To be or not to be"--Hamlet; Shakespeare
"O conspiracy,
Sham' st thou to show thy dan'rous brow by night,
When evils are most free? O, then by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;
Hide it in smiles and affability:
For if thou path, thy native semblance on,
Not Erebus itself were dim enough
To hide thee from prevention."
--Brutus
9. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
10. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Example: narrator
11. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Example: "All teenagers are rebels."
"All children don't enjoy healthy food."
" Women take forever to do anything."
12. 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.
Example: "Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June."
-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
13. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
14. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
Example: Jane Austen--romantic; gothic; heroic
F.Scott Fitzgerald--imaginary sentences; american dream
15. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
Example: "Even though the broccoli was covered in cheddar cheese, Emily refused to eat it." (subordinate clause+main clause)
"Unless Kate finished her calculus hw, she will have to suffer during class tomorrow."
16. 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.
Example: Salvador Dali--The Persistence of Memory
17. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Example: Spider Man; Super Man
18. Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own.
Example: Flag is the symbol of the country.
Red-bloody; The Red Badge Of Courage-the tranformation(fail to success) of Henry Fleming and honor.
19. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Example: "I see the sound of the car."
"I catch the sound of rain."
20. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Example: Wheels-Car
Thread-Clothes
Hand-Worker
21. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
22. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).
23. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disaproved: the main idea.
24. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.
Example: "Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
"Caltholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic."--Catcher in the Rye:Bitter; Sacrastic; Tough
25. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan".
26. Tradegy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusions; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically(fatally) flawed.
27. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
28. Vernacular: everyday speech
29. Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.
30. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
WRITING AS A SPECTATOR SPORT
BOB 1
There is a clear distinction between those who have and those who haven't. After looking over the third period member blogs, this is what I think:
GREAT JOB:
GOOD:
BEHIND:
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