Literature Analysis #2

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

1. Wuthering Heights is essentially a love story about Heathcliff, a mysterious man.  Heathcliff ends up falling for a girl named Catherine whom he can't have due to his social status, which is very important to people in this time. He was an orphan, but was adopted into the Earnshaw family. Catherine, Heathcliff's love, ends up dying before he gets a chance to be with her and it isn't until death when they are able to be united.  It is almost like a tragic love story with many twist and revengeful turns along the way.

2. The theme of Wuthering Heights is the power of love. Love can cause you to make irrational decisions and go against the standards of society.  The overwhelming love story that took place in the novel is what drew me in as a reader and kept me hooked throughout the entire, twisted story.

3. Bronte's tone is very ominous or dark with a strange sense of romance. The love between Heathcliff seems doomed at times, but as the novel progresses you see that the author tried to put a little hope in the idea of their romance. Examples of this type of tone are, " I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother.", " If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." and " He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!".

4. Imagery, symbolism, diction, tone, and genre all helped me understand the theme of the novel. Bronte used much imagery that allowed me to picture the novel in my head as I read. The genre of story, being gothic and romantic also helped me understand and become more intrigued because of the constant wonder of what was to come next.
-"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. " (tone)
-"He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly." (imagery)
-"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."

Brave New World II and III

http://www.m.novelguide.com/bravenewworld/summaries/chap3.html

Brave New World I

http://www.m.novelguide.com/braven
ewworld/novelsummary.html

FIRST QUARTER REVIEW

a) My assessment of my work done so far this semester has been pretty poor.  I haven't completed a good number of assignments but that is going to change and I am going to really step it up the rest of this year. 
My senior project has been coming along nicely, however; Troy, Sebastian, and I have been collaborating a lot and coming up with many ideas on our clothing line.  We just need to try and speed the production up a little but it is costly and time consuming so we are doing our best.
When it comes to the AP test, I really need to step it up if I want to pass with a 4 or 5.

b) Do all my blog posts; create an exceptional senior project; and pass the AP test in may

c) My only comment would be that I really find the time that is aloud to be used to work on and collaborate on our senior projects to be very helpful and beneficial when it comes to my group and our project.

Mark Wills - Don't Laugh At Me

I was listening to Pandora today and this song came on.  It reminds me of when I was younger and my mom would play it when ever me and my siblings picked fun at anyone.  Thought it was a great reminder and a nice way to degrade bullying.

Turn Around

I am making a turn around in this class.  Soccer has been my number one priority these last few months and even though I will be continuing to play club soccer the rest of this year, I will have more time and effort to put into this class.  I know school should always come first but after already committing to Cal Poly Slo I have sort of taken a break on school to focus on sports.  I realize this was a set back and I am ready and determined to make a big turn around.  I will keep up with blog posts from now on, as I saw that my blog has been ranked in the lowest category.  I plan to get my blog to the top list asap.

I AM HERE

Lately I have been so focused on soccer that I have put all my work second.  This was my last high school season so I used all my energy and time to make it the best.  Being captain and working on top of that has made me change my priorities and caused me to drift away from my smart goal as well.  Now that season is over I am ready to give a lot more time and effort to this class and make a big come around with my blog.  I have been focusing a lot on my senior project but so far that is the only school work I have been giving my attention to. Ready for a full turn around and hope to be demonstrating a lot more!

Lit Terns 101-136

101. Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

102. Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

103. Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

104. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

105. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

106. Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

108. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

109. Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

110. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

112. Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

113. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

114. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

116. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

117. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

118. 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.

119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

120. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

121. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

122. 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.

123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

124. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

128. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).

129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved

or disproved; the main idea.

130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the

author’s perceived point of view.

131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

132. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

134. Vernacular: everyday speech

135. Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

136. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

Lit Terms 82-100

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

 

83. Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its

meaning.

 

84. 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.

85. Pacing: rate of movement; tempo.

 

86. Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

 

87. Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

 

88. Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

 

89. Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

 

90. Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

 

91. Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

 

92. Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.

 

93. Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

 

94. Poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

 

95. 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.

 

96. Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

 

97. Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

98. Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

99. Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications

100. Purpose: the intended result wished by an author

lit terms 57-81

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 exaggerate 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 if 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 if 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 a 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 marvelous or magical
69. Metaphor (extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compares 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 if work
--> Mixed: a metaphor that ineffective 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 real curing feature (name, image or phrase) in a piece of literature
76. Myth: a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connects 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
81. Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person