First Quarter Review

This semester has definitely been a rough start for me with my senioritis starting to kick in but I have been able to make it through. I'd have to say that I haven't done the best tht I have possibly could so next grading period I'm going to try and do a lot better job of getting my work on the blog on time and adding extra posts on my blog to make it more impressive.
My goal is to get everything done as soon as I can and get everything on the blog on time in the next six weeks and start to apply myself like I know that I can.
Overall I think that the course so far has been great and there's not really much that I think could be added or changed that could improve much more.

BOB I

(These are in no Particular order)

Great Work

Ming Chen 
Reed Conforti
Danielle Galindo
Valerie Gonzalez
Sebastian Guillen
Megan Hardisty
Ryunhee Kim
Travis Knight
Abby Kuhlman
Alex Lane
Conor McNamara
Josh Ng
Troy Prober
Felicitas Ruiz
Erika Snell
Tanner Tuttle
Dulce Vargas
Chanel Yamaguchi

Mid-range

Cassidy Ashlock
Haleigh Jones
Alicia Hernandez
Carly Koertge
Isiah Mabansag
Nathan Oh
Mathew Patel
Samantha Garrison
Brady Redman
Jason Reinwald
Justin Thompson
Ashley Wilburn

Needs to catch up

Brittany Cunnigham
Kristofer Green
Karianne LaPlante
Colleen Livingstone
Bailey Nelson
Conner Patzman

Lit Terms 83-108

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.

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 argumentation; 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 does not 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 straightfoward 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; denouement.

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.

Lit Terms 51-80

51. Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

52. Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

53. Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

54. 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.

55. Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

56. Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

57. Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

58. Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

59. Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.

60. 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.

61. Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

62. 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.

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

66. Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

67. Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

68. Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical.

69. 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.

70. 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.

71. Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

72. Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

73. Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.

74. Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

75. Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

76. Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

77. Narrative:  a story or description of events.

78. Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

79. Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

80. Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

The Time of My Life

Well now that the Superbowls over I can finally update my blog.

Lets see, if I recall on Friday, we first had a test and then had the rest of the time to do whatever we wanted to further our future pursuits and goals. Unfortunately for me I didn't get the memo until it was to late that it had to be about something english related. I was led to believe that it could be about anything including college and scholarship stuff which was what I did because I still had some portals and stuff to do. I have a smartphone so it was pretty simple task of just going online and doing them, but unfortunately I didn't really do what I was supposed to be doing I guess. I did get stuff done so it wasn't a waste at least.