Super 5

Identify 5 potential experts who can serve as role models and/or endorse your work.

1) Mrs.Dirkes could help endorse our website once we get it all sorted out and perfected. We can giver her flyers or a link to our website so she can put up in the career center or on the website.

2) A lot of my college friends can serve as role models for the project. They can give me tips they have learned in college and I could then put them on our website.

3) My group and I were also planning on using our social media sites to send out a little post introducing our website when it was finished to our senior friends directly. This can gain us a lot of followers because these are all people who will be going to college in a few months.

4) Another person who can help endorse our website could be a counselor directly from a college. Once I or any of the other members from the group decide on the college we are planning to attend, we can contact our counselor from their and tell them about our website.
 
5) I am incorporating my choice of major into this project (marketing) by being the person who plans on how to go about advertising our website. I have been researching different guerrilla marketing strategies and found a cool website about gorilla marketing. Here is the link. Steven Severn seems to be the marketing manager of the site so he could be a good role model for marketing ideas and strategies.

Masterpiece Resources

Masterpiece: A Guide to College Life 

Members: Myself, Caroline Mantoura (Period 3), Sarah Stevens (Period 4), and Rachel Nolan (Period 4)

Resources:
1) One resource I have include all of my friends who are currently in college. I will be able to ask them questions regarding college and see if they have any helpful tips that I can put into our guide.

2) My group and I have decided to put our guide on a website. I found a really cool website that allows you to build your own website for free with step-by-step instructions. Here is a link to the website. I found it by simply using Google to type in "How to make a website",  and then looked through the different options in order to find the best one.

3) While I was researching for different college tips and topics to include in the guide, I found a lot of really helpful website posts. I found these also by using Google. I simply typed in different phrases like "College Tips" and then scrolled writing down different posts I found helpful. Listed below are some of the websites and posts I thought were very insightful.
- http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201008/50-tips-college-students
- http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_life/college_survival.htm
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-lando/36-tips-for-the-college-f_b_3823492.html
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-lando/36-tips-for-the-college-f_b_3823492.html

My Team

The members of the group I am working with for my senior project includes Caroline Mantoura, Sarah Stevens, and Rachel Nolan. Our plan is to make a guide to college life. We already have a pretty good outline and set ideas for our project. We also have a lot of resources that will help us like some friends who are in college currently, that we can interview. Also, we have decided to put all of this onto a website with different tabs to keep everything organized and put together.

Launch

 Here is a link to my launch/draft post.

I am teaming up with Caroline Mantoura and both Sarah Stevens and Rachel Nolan from period 4 to work on my senior project. We are going to create a guide to college life and independent living. We will be researching on money saving tips as well as the lifestyle and social aspects of college. Also, we are going to try and incorporate all of our majors into the project somehow (Sarah Stevens= Business/Accounting, Rachel Nolan= Liberal Studies, Caroline Mantoura=Cosmotology).

I, Jury

Two of the essays I read used the same prompt as the one I wrote my essay on. I enjoyed reading these essays because they answered it using different characters. It was cool to compare and contrast the different points we all wrote about. I was able to see different ways Lenina was affected by the world which is something I could mention in my next essay.

Music Monday?

My friend Sarah Stevens just introduced me to these songs and I literally just bought them off itunes. Be sure to check them out!
- Goodness Gracious by Ellie Goulding
- Let it go For the Night by The Foxes

Brave New Essay

Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how surroundings affect this character and illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole.  Do not merely summarize the plot. (Found this prompt on Allison Brown's blog but I'am going to change it up and describe how it affects two characters; Bernard and John)


      Where you come from profoundly shapes who you are. Whether it's the community of people you interact with or the physical environment in which you live, they've all helped mold you into the person you are today. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Huxley creates a futuristic society filled with advanced scientific practices.  Things like books and nature are shunned while polygamy is encouraged. This society has a great impact on human individuals such as Bernard Marx and John the Savage.
         From the second Bernard Marx was hatched he was conditioned into the top caste class of Alphas whom of which are designed to be the perfect human beings. Unlike the other Alphas, however, Bernard is short like the lower class castes which makes him feel weak and inadequate. Insecure due to his inferior physical stature, Bernard Marx spends most of his time alone criticizing the world. In Brave New World, spending time alone is rather peculiar so the other characters keep a safe distance between themselves and Bernard, aiding in Bernard's insecurity. Nevertheless, when Bernard sees the opportunity to call out the Director, he immediately takes it and soaks up the attention. "'And I had six girls last week', he confided to Helmholtz Watson. 'One on Monday, two on Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one on Saturday. And if I'd had the time or the inclination, there were at least a dozen more who were only anxious...'" This shows how the caste system of this world greatly affects the personal identity of Bernard Marx.
          Only having heard stories of this World State, John the Savage is exhilarated to have the opportunity to visit. Having said that, after a few days of exposure to the citizens' ways John is horrified and disgusted. "'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. 'Don't you?'" Alternating from his religious savage reservation to this new world, John finds himself going against his values and morals when he gives himself away to Lenina. Disgusted with himself, John rebels against the World State and throws soma bottles out the windows in hopes to free the people. He purges and whips himself in order to cleanse his body of the sins he's committed and of the negative society he has associated with. In the end, John is unable to deal with his guilt of giving into the new world's ways and having sex with Lenina, that he commits suicide so that he can free himself. 
          The World State's caste systems subdued its citizens and left them with no identify. The biologically engineered bodies and excessively conditioned minds of the people left no room for individual thoughts. Unable to deal with these ways of the new world or the fact that they have changed their personalities, Bernard and John rebelled. In conclusion, the psychological and moral traits of both Bernard Marx and John the Savage were significantly influenced by Huxley's new world.

 

Quote I came Across...

"It always seems impossible until it's done." -Nelson Mandela

Brave New Essay Topic

Essay Prompt: Compare and contrast our modern world with the world described in Brave New World.

After today's journal topic, I really started to think of all the differences and similarities between the two worlds. I feel like I would be able to write a really good essay with this prompt. First, I would compare the human characteristics of the people today with Huxley's characters. The main difference would be how humans today are mostly born through childbirth while the characters from Brave New World were made and conditioned in test tubes. Next, I would talk about the effects of technology to both societies, as well as the types of governments from each world.

As I was researching more information online, I came across a really cool article that lists some of the predictions Huxley made about the future that are actually occuring today.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100247159/five-things-that-brave-new-world-got-terrifyingly-right/

Literary Analysis #2

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1) Brave New World is about a futuristic society where everyone is told and programmed how to act. There are five different groups of castes which include (in order of highest to lowest) Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The last three classes were oxygen deprived in their test tubes and the Epsilons were greatly deprived and even poisoned with alcohol in order to keep "stupid". The Alphas, on the other hand, are tall, beautiful, and smart. As kids, the people are encouraged to engage in sexual activities which helps to keep their emotions in control. Bernard Marx is one main character we meet who is an Alpha-Plus but unlike the other Alphas, he is short. Because of this, he feels isolated and different than one another. Helmholtz Watson is another character who is both an Alpha and a man who feels out of place. Lenina is a beautiful woman who is adored by every male. Bernard takes an interest in Lenina because he feels like she is different and takes her on a date to the Savage Reservation. The Director reveals that he has visited this place and met a woman whom he ended up losing so he came back alone. When Bernard finds out that the Director wants to deport him, he freaks out and takes a lot of soma, the drug constantly used by the citizens of the book. Meanwhile, Lenina is horrified by all the dirty people and the horrific smells. They meet a white man named John who has been raised on the Reservation as well as his mother Linda. Bernard then realizes that John's mother is the missing woman the Director met and John is his son. He gets excited as he can use this to blackmail the Director so he won't get sent away. Lenina and John start to have feelings for each other and both John and Linda come back home with Lenina and Bernard. When Bernard introduces the Director to John and Linda, John starts to shout "Dad" which is a vulgar word in the book and runs out of the room covering his ears. John is worried about Lenina becomes she seems to be in a "soma-coma" which is going to kill her if she keeps it up but nobody else cares. John also spends time bonding with Helmholtz over Shakespeare books and Helmholtz realizes that it is indeed possible to write passionately. When Lenina tells John to have sex with her he becomes horrified and calls her a whore because where he comes from, people save themselves for marriage. John leaves after when he receives a call saying his mother is dying, and she dies shortly after he arrives. John is grief-stricken and everyone around him is confused with this strange emotion which angers John even more. He causes a riot by throwing soma out the windows and Bernard and Helmholtz quickly rush over before the police come. The three guys are taken to Mustapha Mond's office where Bernard rats out his two friends. Mustapha talks to Helmholtz and tells him that he may actually like being sent to the island where he can meet others who are like him, and he agrees. John and Mustapha then talk about literature and emotions. However, Mustapha won't let John live with Helmholtz because he wants to continue his social experiment. John has had it with everything and runs away to an abandoned lighthouse and starts making himself throw up to cleanse himself of the horrible civilization he just witnessed. Eventually, he hangs himself not being able to deal with all the reporters watching him freak out and Lenina when she tries to show up to talk to him. 

2) Two of the big themes in the novel were the dangers of an all powerful world and the advancement of science as it affects human individuals. Huxley wrote this book during the Industrial Revolution when many life-changing inventions and techniques were created like the assembly line with cars. Aldous Huxley used this assembly line method with eggs and sperm in order to create numerous beings who were made and put into certain castes. The humans were conditioned to have no emotions and love whatever job that came with their caste.

3) The tone throughout the whole book was very satirical/ironic. "Roses and electric shocks, the khaki of Deltas and a whiff of asafoetida – wedded indissolubly before the child can speak. But wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, hypnopaedia." "In the Bottling Room all was harmonious bustle and ordered activity. Flaps of fresh sow's peritoneum ready cut to the proper size came shooting up in little lifts from the Organ Store in the sub-basement. Whizz and then, click! the lift-hatches hew open; the bottle-liner had only to reach out a hand, take the flap, insert, smooth-down, and before the lined bottle had had time to travel out of reach along the endless band, whizz, click! another flap of peritoneum had shot up from the depths, ready to be slipped into yet another bottle, the next of that slow interminable procession on the band." "The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables."

4) Literary Terms:
- Imagery: "The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory."
-Parallelism: "One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide."
-Exclamation: "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"
-Onomatopoeia: "Whizz and then, click!"
-Simile: "'Embryos are like photograph film', said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door. 'They can only stand red light.'"
-Rhetorical Question: "Could the effects of this germinal mutation be undone? Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?"
-Dialogue: "I've had it nearly three months." "Chosen as the opening date of the new era." "Ending is better than mending; ending is better..."
-Flashback: "Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that have haunted all her sleeps"
-Setting: London
-Rhyming Scheme: "Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you, The weather's always fine; For there ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine."

Characterization: 
1) Direct- ""Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips."
Direct- "On the fringe of the little group stood a stranger-a man of middle height, black-haired, with a hooked nose, full red lips, eyes very piercing and dark."
Indirect- "'We can electrify that whole strip of floor,' bawled the Director in explanation." The Director is shown electrifying infants so people classify him as heartless and cruel.
Indirect- "'Suffer little children,' said the Controller." The Controller is shown as a cruel person because who wants little kids to suffer?


2) I don't think Huxley changes his syntax/diction when he talks about the different characters. He keeps a neutral satirical tone throughout the whole book.

3) Bernard Marx is definitely a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book Bernard was so unique compared to the other characters that you couldn't help but like him. He was rebellious, smart, and cared about Lenina as a person rather than "a piece of meat". However, as we progressed further into the book Bernard started to act different. By the end of the book when he decides to uproot John and his mother, he proved himself to not be the guy he was characterized in at the beginning of the book. Instead, he just wanted to excel socially up the ladder and did whatever he needed to do to climb higher.

4) After reading I did feel like I met Bernard Marx. I felt he was more like a person than a character. For example, when he blackmailed John and his mother his true self came out. He was shown as a true human being who has imperfections and can be selfish. Just like a lot of human beings, Bernard was out for his own selfish-needs which, in his case, was to progress to a socially high Alpha label.

I Am Here

In a post entitled I AM HERE please explain your progress in this course during the first grading period.  Have you begun thinking/working on your senior project, big question, collaborative working group, or other endeavor/venture that shows how you're putting this course to work for you? Document and explain your performance.

I believe I did really well in this course during the first grading period. I made sure to finish and post any homework to my blog before the due date and studied hard for any tests and quizzes. Because of this, I was able to learn a lot about how the blog works and learn a lot of information that has helped me grow during this current semester. I have begun thinking about different ideas for my senior project but haven't committed to one idea yet. One thing I was thinking about doing was relating my project to my career choice which is business management/marketing. Another thing I have been thinking about was relating my project to something we have learned about this year in the course. I have been focusing a lot of my attention the past few weeks on the final touches to my college documents and scholarships so I haven't had time to really sit down and brainstorm on this. However, now that I have finished all this, I will be sure to take some time out to choose/start my senior project.

Quote:

"If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal."

WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Interdisciplinarity: combining two or more academic disciplines into one activity

I will be going into the business/marketing field which involves knowing a numerous amount of various skills. Math will be one skill I need to be extremely good at in order to calculate different numbers, percentages, and estimates. Psychology will be helpful in knowing what kind of things will catch peoples' attention. This will help because marketing is all about finding creative ways to spread your product to people so they will buy it. Something cool I recently learned was different colors bring out different emotions in people which is why restaurants paint their walls and buildings the colors that they do. For example, blue and purple will create a loss of appetite while red will draw attention to your restaurant and catch peoples' interests. Other classes that will help prepare me for my career are history, art, and economics.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Notes

Tone: Satirical

Setting: London, Britain 

Theme: dangers of an all powerful world; the advancement of science as it affects human individuals

Foreword:

-never regret your mistakes; learn from them
-Savage's two alternatives: an insane life in Utopia or the life of a primitive in an Indian Villiage
-Huxley would give him a 3rd alternative if he could go back= live in a community of exiles and refugees from the Brave New World
-book about future about how the future can interest us only if its prophecies look if they were to come true
-book has no reference to nuclear fissions

Chapters 1-2:
-setting: London
-World State's Motto: "Community, Identity, and Stability"
-Director gives new students a tour while they take notes
-Incubators hold eggs and sperm
-Bokanovsky's Process= for Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons that makes one fertilized egg divide until you get 96 humans and then are poisoned with alcohol until near death
-advantage of hundreds of identical people=social stability

-freemartins: sterile females,
-Alphas (top class)>Epsilons (bottom; stupid because they are engineered to be by oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatments)
-men are conditioned to love whatever job they do (men in mine in tropics hate cold and men who hang upside down to do rocket repairs are only happy when upside down)
-Mr. Foster (who has explained some of this) has a 'thing' with Lena one of the nurses
-in the infant nurseries the nurses set out bowls of roses and books for the kids to play with  but they are electrified so they will have no interest in flowers or books
-Director tells a story about "Our Ford" a boy named Reuben Rabinovitch and his parents played a tape about the Nile River and when they asked him what it was he still didn't know he could just repeat it word-for-word
-Director had to explain what parents were and it is a vulgar word as is "Mom" and "Dad"
-Analogy: Water can wear through rock over time but the lessons that are repeated over and over during sleep aren't like water but like wax; they pile up on the rock and harden until the rock is one big crusty blob

-Alphas (grey) > Betas (mulberry) > Gammas (green) > Deltas (khaki) > Epsilons (black)

-Class consciousness is where recorded voices whisper to sleeping children... Hypnopaedia


Chapter 3:
-little kids are engaging in sexual games and the Director tells the students of a time when people weren't allowed to
-Mustapha Mond is one of the ten "World Controllers" and is nicknamed "his fordship"

-rumors he keeps a safe with bibles and poetry
-The Controller tells the students what a "home" was and about emotions and one kid almost gets sick
-Fanny is introduced; one of Lenina's friends
-Bernard is introduced; one of Henry's friends and an Alpha
-Fanny is shocked Lenina is going to meet up with Henry again and has dated him for 4 years
-Monogamy is good; pre-Ford monogamy doesn't make sense because everyone should belong to everyon
-This keeps everyone's emotions stable and you need individual stability because it leads to stability and without it everyone will die
-Lenina says she is interested in Bernard but Fanny is concerned because he spends too much time alone; and he is shy around her; but she will accept his invitation to a date to the Savage Reservation

-Fanny says there's rumors someone accidentally injected him with alcohol

-Fanny compliments Lenina on get belt of contraceptives from Henry
-Bernard thinks everyone is an idiot for repeating the same things over and over; he wants to punch some guys who talk about Lenina as if she were a piece of meat
-Nine Years' war brought devastating chemical and biological warfare and people had no choice but to accept world control as the only solution
-Controller says after illegal substances they need to conquer old age so men can work their whole lives without worrying about retirement which is dangerous because it leads to thinking
-Controller- "Suffer little children." like Jesus's famous quote "Suffer the little children unto me."

Chapter 4:
 -Lenina talks about her plans with Bernard out loud and he blushes and doesn't want to talk in front of others
-an Epsilon-Minus-Semi-Moron gets tot he roof of the elevator and goes "Ah the roof the roof" over and over (programmed to only be happy when he gets to the roof)
-Lenina declares how she hates khaki (aka she is glad she's not a Gamma)
-Bernard is sad that Lenina talked about their date in public because he though she would be different
-Bernard has a flaw= he is short like the Delta-Minus workers; he is suppose to be tall like Alphas
-there's a newspaper for each class of people except Epsilons (they can't read???)
-we meet Helmholtz Watson who is an Alpha-Plus and lectures at College of Emotional Engineering; super smart so he feels like an outsider like Bernard
-Helmholtz says he is dissatisfied and wants something more but he doesn't know what; he asks Bernard if he has ever felt like there was something inside waiting to come out like a feeling to say something important (foreshadowing maybe??)
-Helmholtz says words are like x-rays because they can pierce through anything and he thinks he can do something more instense and more violent if only he knew what
-Bernard tells him to be quiet and check to make sure nobody was listening in

Chapters 5 & 6:

-Henry and Lenina fly back home after golf and there are adult corpses that are burned with no rituals to help plants grow 

-Henry says everyone is equal chemically and jokes even Epsilons are useful and Lenina says she is glad shes not an Epsilon but Henry says it's because of her status and if she were one she'd be happy about it

-Soma is the drug they all take

-when click strikes 9 it says "Ford, Ford, Ford..." 9 times

-Bernard goes to a meeting and they listen to music, take soma, and chant a song 12 times

-Bernard isn't in the mood even though he took soma and he is more miserable than he has ever been
- Bernard is an Alpha-Plus psychologist
-Lenina accepts Bernard's invitation to go to Savage Reservation in New Mexico but she is horrified by it while Bernard is fascinated and he wishes he could be "free" which freaks Lenina out
-When Bernard requests permission to go to Savage Director starts thinking aloud about a time when he met a women but she got lost and he left without her
-Director embarrassed and reprimands Bernard and tells him he doesn't like his behavior and he better stop or he will be sent to Iceland
-Helmholtz like Bernard to talk to but he thinks he is too proud and has too much self-pity
-On helicopter ride Lenina talks Bernard into taking 4 soma tablets (that's a lot for them)

Hafta/Wanna

I definately see myself significantly changing after I graduate high school. My life will change of course mostly because I will be moving out on my own and will become more independent. I will have to learn to do a lot of things by myself and not be reliant upon my parents. Other than that, I think I will still hold the same characteristics and values as I do now. I believe people will take their current habits with them to college. Depending on the significance of their lifestyle change, others will realize they need to step it up and change, while others will find themselves adapting well. It can be difficult to balance the things you want to do with the things you have to do. It is important to get the things that need to be done, done. It is also important to give yourself a break every once in a while and have fun so you don't get overwhelmed and too stressed out. As I move on I would like to see myself become successful in my career.

Lit Terms #6

Simile: comparing two things using the word "like" or "as"

Soliloquy: a long speech given by a character in a play to the audience that reveals their thoughts

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme

Speaker: the person who is speaker; narrator
 
Stereotype: a fixed idea of a character/idea which does not allow for any individual prejudices

Stream of consciousness: a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind

Structure: framework of a work of literature

Style: the distinctive way in which a writer uses language; use of diction, tone, syntax

Subordination: words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on another

Surrealism: movement that replaces conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind

Suspension of disbelief: suspended not believing in order to enjoy it

Symbol: a person, place, thing or event that had meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself
- BNW: soma= need to control the citizens; Shakespeare= love, beauty (things new world stays away from)

Synesthesia: to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, at the same time

Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

Syntax: the way an author chooses to join word into phrases, clauses, and sentences

Theme: the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
-BNW: dangers of an all-powerful state

Thesis: the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, or meaning

Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience

Tongue in cheek: cleverly amusing in tone

Tragedy: any literary composition dealing with a somber theme

Understatement: the ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is

Vernacular: everyday language; slang

Voice: the author's style that makes his or her writing unique and conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character

Zeitgeist: the general cultural, intellectual, or spiritual climate within a nation or even specific groups

Launch/Draft

1) One thing I am passionate about is designing things which is why I am majoring in the marketing/business. I want to be able to create different ways for a certain product to be advertised to people. I always thought it was really cool how whenever people saw that certain shade of blue, they immediately thought of Tiffany and Co.

2) I can use the skills I have learned from this class about our blog and collaborating. I have learned a lot about blogs and I can use this technique to interact with people using the internet.

3) In order to "feel the awesomeness and no regrets" by June, I need to stay focused on school and not get lazy as we reach graduation. I don't want my grades to slip due to the fact that I just don't care about school anymore.

4) In order to impress people I think I need to stay focused and put my all into everything I do. If I do this and end up receiving good grades for the semester, it can be really impressive to colleges Also, if I keep up with my blog, it can be a good thing to include on resumes. 

5) To bring my ideas into reality, I will remind myself of my goals whenever I start to feel myself slipping. To make my career dreams become reality I will try and keep an open mind through college and really try and expand my networks.

6) The peers in my learning network can be my friends and future classmates because they might be the people who I will be working with during my career. The public will be just everyone who I will be aiming to advertise to. I have some family and friends who have gone into the business career so they can help guide me.

*Looked over and didn't find anything to revise 

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism: grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarities 
ex: "Like father, like son."

Parody: a statement that seems to be self-contradictory but may include truth
ex: "Your enemy's friend is your enemy."

Pathos: a method of convincing people with an argument drawn out through an emotional response
ex: A soft instrumental symphony may arouse people emotionally.

Pedantry: an adjective that describes words or phrases that is overly academic or bookish

Personification: a figure of speech when a thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes
ex: "The wind whispered through the grass."

Plot: refers to the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story

Poignant: causes a strong feeling of sadness

Point of view: the perspective from which a story is told

Postmodernism: literary movement which involved breaking the fourth wall (character talks to readers)

Prose: a division of genre that refers to fiction and nonfiction because they are written in ordinary language

Protagonist: the main character in a literary work

Pun: when a word is used in a manner to suggest two or more possible meanings to create humor

Purpose: the author's reason for creating a particular work

Realism: any literary or artistic portrayal of life in an accurate manner

Refrain: a repeated part of a poem

Requiem: a song of prayer for the dead

Resolution: end of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered

Restatement: to state again in a new form

Rhetoric: describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

Rhetorical question: a question that is asked for effect and doesn't expect a reply

Rising action: the development of conflict and complications in a literary work

Romanticism: literary movement that gives the readers a sense of identity, emotion, and imperfection

Satire: the practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaw

Scansion: a close, critical reading of a poem examining the work for meter

Setting: identifies the time and place of the story

Extra Time on Your Hands?

I just got done reading The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay and I highly recommend it! It's my new favorite book and I promise you won't regret reading it!