Brave New World : 7

I always thought of soma as a drug that just made you feel happy, but now I'm starting to get the feeling that soma is some sort of hallucinagen to make you see happy things in place of unhappy things. For eample, Lenina saw ropes instead of snakes at first.

I can see the signifcance, plot-wise, of the director telling Bernard an ancedote. From what I just read, Linda was the girl l that the director couldn't find, and she got picked up by the reservation and she got placed in that society. Linda was saying how difficult it was for her to adjust. I'm getting the vibe of foreshadowing from Linda because I don't know if i should call it coincidence that Linda and Lenina have small similarities both in their name and personas.

Brave New World : 6

Bernard Marx- Karl Marx? I figured that there would be a connection there because the names are too similar to be unnoticed. How about George Bernard Shaw? The playwright/economist. He was also into the whole socialist movement and advocated for equal rights for women.

Bernard and Lenina's difference of opinion in way they see the sea, moon, and night. Lenina cried because it was horrible, but Bernard got reminded of himself. *this disturbs me* Just how different is Bernard even though he is still an Alpha? Beyond just a mix of alcohol in his test tube.
Then immediately after that, (suddenly) Bernard fondles Lenina's breasts and sleeps with her. I'm confused

Malignant- very dangerous in influence
Solecism- a breach of good manners

Lit Terms Applied

I walked out of the classroom thinking that I did the best that I could. But I know I could have done better now. I need to get over all the pressure that I am under in those circumstances because I know the terms, but i couldn't put it on paper when I needed to. The test did frustrate me because roughly a minute and a half on each slide to read, identify, and analyze was too short and frankly it was unrealistic. Granted the fact that if we trained under that pressure for the rest of the year, the AP test would be over in an hour.

Brave New World : 5&6

On page 64, I found indirect and direct characterization of Bernard.

On page 78, there is an allusion to the clocktower in London, but in the case of the book it is called Big Henry

On page 85, personification of Big Henry by saying the clock sung 11

On page 85, synesthesia by saying the night was calm and warm

Those were the only terms I caught while reading

Brave New World : foreword/chapter 1

This book is beginning to become one of those books that are boring to me.The only thing that us still keeping me in is the dark nature of the book.It is very dystopian in my opinion, but it has a slow start. Most of the novel so far is just plain rambling about the hatchery they are at, but don't get me wrong, the book was excellent at setting the setting and the type of society that the book takes place in. The novel hasn't introduced the protagonist yet, and I would have expected the novel to introduc him or her in the beginning. Overall, the book seems interesting but it has a slow start and that makes me lose interest.

I also found it difficult to fully understand when the novel uses anatomy terminology because I have to stop reading to figure out what words those are.

WRITINGAS5PECTATORSPORT

Some of the videos haven't all been uploaded but the source of all the essays I read are located on Christa Weston's Blog.

Ashley- She didn't do a pre-write so that is going to be a problem during the AP test. From past AP tests, pre-writes are really really helpful and I suggest that she get into the habit of doing them. I was told that spending 10 minutes on a good prewrite can save you 20 minutes on an essay.

Mackenzie- She did have a prewrite but I suggest that she go through the whole essay. She needs to write whatever she is going to put into her essay in the prewrite. When I read the prewrite, I should get an outline and not a summary.

Pablo- his prewrite is really like "BAM!". He just put thoughts down, and things that he knows. It's a start but not an effective prewrite. In effect to that, he rambles a little in the beginning before he gets started.

Iliana- although she didn't write the essay portion, I can tell that the essay will be well written because her prewrite was really well done. She took the whole ten minutes to write a good prewrite and that will help her a lot.

Preston- his prewrite makes me a bit lost. I wouldn't know where he is going without being him, but judging from all the scratching out of words and sentences, he was rushed and a little too unprepared.

Myself- I need to work on my prewrites and the fact that I ramble a lot in my writing. I need to get straight to the point without dragging along.

Vocab 101-133

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

Rising Action- plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax

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.

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

Scansion- the analysis of verse in terms of meter

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

Simile- a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things though the use of a specific word of comparison

Soliloquy- an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage

Spiritual- a folk song, usually on a religious theme

Speaker- a narrator, the one speaking

Stereotype- cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story

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

Structure- the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization

Style- the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking

Subordination- the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

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

Suspension of Disbelief- suspend not believing in order to enjoy it

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

Synesthesia- the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense

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

Syntax- the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence

Theme- main idea of the story; its message(s)

Thesis- a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea

Tone- the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view

Tongue in Cheek- a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; aka "dry" or "dead pan"

Tragedy- in literature any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically flawed

Understatement- opposite of hyperbole; sating less than you mean for emphasis

Vernacular- everyday speech

Voice- The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona

Zeitgeist- the feeling of particular era in history