LIT TERMS 6-30

Yaaay! Everybody's favorite kind of post! Let's do it to it so we can start our other homework.
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Analogy: brussell sprouts are to dessert as Matthew Patel is to calculus class.

Analysis: My favorite kind of graph is a simple way to understand the hard stuff.

Anaphora: every episode of Friends (imagine 90's font) is titled " The one where..."  It's cool cuz that's how we all describe specific tv episodes.

Anecdote: " Back when I was a boy, we had to walk to school uphill both ways...in the snow...and we liked it."   What he's trying to say is that we have it good.  Or he's showing off.

Antagonist: Captain Hook is the antagonist of the Peter Pan story.

Antithesis:  Bull in a china shop compares the bulk and force of the bovine-american with the dainty fragility of the teacups.

Aphorism: This fun little thinkstarter was thought up by Jeff Mangum.

 Apologia: My sister's apologia for lack of dental hygiene: Mom said I don't have to brush? Web of lies.

Apostrophe: A book as ubiquitous in preschools as bibles in motel rooms.

Argument: Many of us use wikipedia or IMDB to prove others wrong.

Assumption: I don't agree with that assume and ass and you and me thing because we're only trying to hone our deductive reasoning skills. 

Audience: Despite the fact that pokemon is targeted at an audience of children, I believe it is most popular among the post/peri-pubescent.

Characterization: Eeyore, the donkey from Winnie the Pooh (as if you thought of any other), is heavily characterized by his sighs and stoicism.

Chiasmus: " Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."  That's what JFK said.  Btw, there was a guy who met John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy. C-c-c-crazy!

Circumlocution: Beat around the bush

Classicism: The Greeks had their ideas AND their style copied.

Cliche: (Sans accent mark because blogger doth protest too much.)  This show is just one huge cliche and a massive joke being played on society.

Climax: The best most decisive part of the movie.  Harry and Voldemort battle it out, for example.

Colloquialism: My favorite accent to read aloud in.

Comedy: I hope your mind didn't jump to Tyler Perry because no.

Conflict: That which causes drama in a clique of teenage girls.

Connotation:  

Contrast: If this picture doesn't work, consider a quote from Remy in Fat Joe's Lean Back:
We gangsta and gangstas don't dance, we boogie.

Denotation: Straight out the dictionary!

Denouement: When they go back and tell you what's happened since the conflict ended.

POETRY ANALYSIS

*groans* I'd like to say that making caps-locked titles on our posts is obnoxious but how can I complain when I have nothing better to suggest.  It's what I would choose if I had to verify the existence of all our posts.

I'm gonna go ahead and use poems off the handy-dandy link on the class blog. Geronimoooo! *Javert's spine breaking sound*

Dulce et Decorum Est: on a scale of 1-5, this gets 4 snaps.
Paraphrase: We were marching home to rest after we had just finished a battle and suddenly we were gassed.  One of us didn't get his mask on in time.  I had to watch him drown in his blood.  There is no glory in war.
Purpose: Share about how war is not like the propaganda made it seem.
Structure: Octet-Sextet-Couplet-12 line stanza
Shift: The shift occurs when the speaker announces the gas.  We go from a trip to safety to the thick of danger.
Speaker:  The speaker is a normal soldier.
Spelling: The diction of this poem makes the dying and dead a bit impersonal.  A leader would have said "my men."
Tone:  Quite grave.
Theme:  Going to war will not make you a better man (unless you were a vile human being before deployment, I suppose)

Ozymandias( by Horace Smith, not Percy Shelley): 5 snaps for making me think about the future.
Paraphrase: There is a stone leg in Egypt that once belonged to a statue and that statue was made by a powerful civilization but they are gone now and the same may happen to London.
Purpose: To display our etheriality.
Structure: Octet-sextet
Shift: The shift occurs when the speaker mentions that we can think about how the same may happen to us that happened to Babylon.
Speaker: Sounds like a thoughtful explorer
Spelling:  Why did he choose Ozymandias?  It's another name for Ramses II who built a wealthy Egypt.  Less than 150 years after his death, the empire fell.
Tone: Wondrous
Theme: Humbleness.  You aren't the first and you won't be the last.

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night: 4 snaps for making me want to write a bucket list.
Paraphrase: Don't die without a fight.  Wise men know their end.  At the end, all will be clear so don't waste your life.
Purpose: To remind people that yolo
Structure: tercet-tercet-tercet-tercet-tercet-quatrain
Shift: Sounds like a reminder to live it up until you see that he is writing to his father, probably on his deathbed :(
Speaker: A man telling his father to fight death because men are supposed to live fiercely.
Spelling: Rage is frequent so I imagine he meant to portray his anger.   Really good flow in this one.
Tone: Angsty
Theme: Carpe diem.

Danse Russe: 3 snaps for teh lulz it gave me
Paraphrase: Everybody is asleep and the sun is glowing through the house.  I am naked, dancing, and singing.  I am lonely but this makes me happy.
Purpose: Expository of how good some people are at frontin'.
Structure: free verse, I guess.
Shift: When he first mentions he is lonely, you go from that "work it, girl!" attitude to " :*( "
Speaker:  A man who feels restricted by what he has created for himself.  Looking for his real self.
Spelling: Dat imagery. Grotesquely reminds me of self-loathing.  Who shall say... is the "say it to my face moment."
Tone: Melancholy
Theme: Despite what we may be experiencing in life, there are moments in which we have all the control and nothing can restrain your mind (or body) at those times.

The Second Coming: 2 snaps for not being very intriguing to me
Paraphrase: Bad things are happening that remind us of the Bible's description of the Apocalypse.
Purpose: How do you just pull a purpose out of this one? To share what the world of the author is like, I suppose.
Structure: Octet-14 line stanza
Shift: When the speaker figures out what all the signs he's mentioned correlate to.
Speaker: A man afraid of what the world has become.
Spelling: Troubles, pitiless, darkness, nightmare, and rough.  There are plenty words to make you think of an apocalyptic landscape but these do the best.  Heavy christian undertone.
Tone: Christian.  Jk, I meant tragic and survivalist.
Theme: This world is going to hell thanks to ironic imbalance.

Thufferin' Thuccotash

Let's talk about that pitiful display of memorization that happened in class today.  Good job to the few and proud who actually knew their stuff.  I'm thinking it was a combination of just back in school plus plenty of other things to do that left us in the dust of St. Crispin's Day.  Personally, this was a bad week.  Rotten, really.
The worst part about memorizing the thing was that Shakespeare had so much flow that this and To Be or Not To Be were too similar and my brain told me to mention fardels and bodkins :(

LIT TERMS 1-5

Allegory: Famous and remade and referenced in everyday conversation.  Good job, Aesop.  Or should I say "That'll do pig."

Alliteration:  My favorite kind of tongue twisters are created through alliteration.  And if you're looking for tongue twisters in Spanish to sharpen your pronunciation, search trabalenguas.

Allusion: This image is a screencap of the tv show Bones.  It's a good show.  I don't feel like I have to explain any more so there you have it.

Ambiguity: These are fun, right?!  Is it a man with a sax or a lady with an up-do?  *ghost voice* Nobody knoooows!

Anachronism: A few years ago, this crazy little idea at the 4:22 mark popped up.  Was there a time traveller recorded in Charlie Chaplin's The Circus?  Does he get coverage in 1928?  How does his battery last so long?  Many more questions inspired than answered.  

Parado sobre la Muralla Verde

I could say I want to get a five on the AP exam and it wouldn't be a lie.  It also wouldn't be unique.  What does it take to define my semester in this class?  My overall goal is to become some kind of foreign policy officer (if you have any advice, please share!).  It's pretty vague but, you know, my wishes are fleeting and only revolve around general themes.  And if it's true that we will switch careers at least once, statistically of course, in our lifetimes, then why should I be so specific.  I'm gonna grab the reins of this course and make it open up my mind.  Like most kids in my generation, I'm pretty socially liberal.  I'm a minority from SoCal, what else is new?  But I don't wanna let those liberal dogmas get in the way of letting me hear anything valuable that comes from a Tea Partier or...dare I say it, a Romnesiac.  Mostly, I want to get into the valuable literature that can be a Jaws of Life for an apathetic mind.  This happened for me with The Great Gatsby last year so I hope to let that flow and maybe calibrate and pressurize the flow.