Literary Term Narrator

Narrator:

• a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc

• The speaker of the story.

There is not much else to say about a narrator. It is the voice of the story. A narrator can be telling his own story. First person point of veiw. The character is the narrator.

In the video above. Morgan freeman's voice is being heard, he is telling a short story. Making him the Narrator.

Thinking Outside the Box

Sartre and Plato stories where interesting pieces of work. They both had some similarities with limitation and tone. I felt though there where also differences with characters and how the settings where developed.

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave the limitation for the story is the prisoners shackled. They are limited of knowledge and only get hold of what they think is reality. The prisoner's limitations in the cave is them not being to see the whole truth. The cave and shackles is their limitation. They are limited to freedom. In Sartre's No Exit limitation, was tricky for me to actually find. I would think the limitation the three characters is being stuck in the room together forever. They have no say so in anything, their freedom is limited. They are stuck in hell and can never leave. They may speak and do whatever, but they are not aloud to leave the room. The room is there limitation. In both works you see their freedom is limited.

I feel the tone in both works where pretty similar. They both held a seriousness. In Plato the tone you can tell was serious because it talked about humanity. It explained how one can not fully grasp reality, how humanity is some what ignorant. In Sartre's I also thought the tone was serious. Especially with each character, they told the reason why they where sent to hell. I felt these people were also ignorant. So the similarity is in each piece of literature the people were ignorant.

I felt the settings where also similar in a way. The cave when the prisoners, saw the light the some wanted to shrink back to the cave. They could not handle reality and the cave was the only thing they felt safe in. The room in No Exit I felt held similar meaning. When Garcin had the chance to leave, the outside the heat hit him. He wasn't sure what was out there and he went back inside. Unsure himself, the room was the only thing he knew that was safe. So I felt both settings where there safe house.

Plato and Sartre I also felt had many differences. For instance, how the settings where developed. In Sartre the setting was developed through Dialogue. The man Garcin, was asking about the room and saying things that where in there. In Plato the setting was simple ot right described with much detail. Another thing different was the characters. In Plato the characters where forced there, to be in the cave. They had no choice, they where shackled and could not move. Satre his characters made poor choices, and dug their on grave to hell. Their actions caused them to be there.

As you can see, Plato and Sartre works had many similarities but also had differences. It was interesting to compare the two, they were great reads.

Literary Term Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing:

• is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story

•  is a way of indicating or hinting at what will come later

Example of Foreshadowing:

-Fortune tellers
-Omens (Breaking a mirror seven years of bad luck)
-Seeing dark clouds, can foreshadow a storm probably be coming.
-Music can be another example. If it has a scary sound, you know something suspensful is coming.
-Clear sky can tell you the day will be nice. Weather is another example for foreshadowing.

The video above does a great explaining, different kinds of foreshadowing. There are musical foreshadowing, verbal foreshadowing, facial foreshadowing, visual and action foreshadowing After the video hits the half way point the rest of the video gives you example, then asks you to guess which kind of foreshadowing is used.


A great way to remember foreshadowing, is to remember fortune teller. Fortune tellers, can see events that are going to come. Foreshadowing hints about events that are later on come.

Literary Term Figurative Language

Figurative language refers to a way of using description to create a special image and bring out one's emotions. It is also closely linked to the senses. Figurative language is an important part of writing and is also widely used in speech

Types of Figurative Language

• Simlie and Metaphors are the two most common types of figurative language. Simlie includes the words "like" and "as", while a metaphor does not

• Alliteration refers to the repetition of words with similar consonant sounds.

• Personification occurs when human-like qualities are given to inanimate objects, animals or ideas.

•  Hyperbole is an exaggeration of the importance of a word or event, while understatement refers to downplaying the importance
  

 

• Imagery is another type of figurative language that is directly linked to the senses, and uses description to appeal to our senses. Images

• Onomatopoeia refers to words that demonstrate the action that is being performed.

The video above has figurative language, all described through a song

Literary Term Chiasmus

Chiasmus: In rhetoric, a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.

Examples:

He was just the man for such a place and it was just the place for such a man.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me

Better a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks

The video above shows the examples in the above video. A way to remember chiasmus, is to remember it is a chiasmus, if you can switch the two main  things/subject around in a sentence and it still has the same meaning.

Literary Terms Metonymy and Synecdoche

Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.

Examples:
Crown can be associated with royalty
A ring can be associated with marriage
White House associated with where the President lives
Heart can be assocaited to love

Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

Examples:
How do you like my new ride (You know I mean new car)
All hands on deck (You know that means all sailors on ship)

The video above does a great job of explaining the two. It is really easy to get the two confused. When you think of synecdoche, think with anything to do with people, because people are a whole. When you think of metonymy uses words that can substitute one another. The video above gives great examples with mvies, literature and music.

Literary Term Implication

Implication:  something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood. To indicate something.

The way to remember what implication is to think of the word implying.

Situation of when implying is used:

When your accusing someone they did something, but you don't outright say it. Then they say, "what are you implying?" They are basically mean: What are you saying or mean?

Implying is another word for a suggesting, saying or meaning.

The video above is a funny way to see the word implication. It is easily seen of what the pony is implying. But he doesn't out right say it. He keeps saying he is implying, instead of outright saying it. He is suggesting things with clues in what he means.

Literary Terms Allegory

Allegory: The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

An example can be:

• a story in which the characters and events are symbols expressing thruth about life.
• A story that is about one thing, but that can applied to another thing.

A way I can remember Allegory is from the story "The Allegory of the Cave." If you have read the Allegory, it is an easy way to remember what an Allegory is. The word All it makes me think of knowing it all. But in reality we can never know everything.

The video above, basically is "The Allegory of the Cave." The video itself shows what a Allegory is. It shows the difference in which one thinks what they know the world is like, when they are soon hit with reality.

The video above shows how the glasses are reality or the truth, you see the world as it truly is.

Literary Term Personification

Personification: a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract concept is given human qualities or said to perform humanlike actions or possess humanlike emotions.

Examples:

The wind softly whispered to the world. (The wind can't whisper, humans can)
The sun smiled down on the people. (The sun can't smile, but human can)


The way I remember what Personification means, is I think of the word Person. When I think of the word person I think of human. Then it makes me remember human charcteristics. Once I remember human characteristics it makes me remember the defintion, inanimated objects having human charcteristics.

This video, the guy gives Pain human traits. In the beginning he is explaining how he let Pain come to his house. He then talks how he let Fate come over for breakfast and gave him a name. Then he is talking to Fate and asking why he gave his heart to Pain. The last thing he talks about Peace, saying he knows him so well. He gave Fate, Pain and Peace human characteristics. In the poem he acts like the three are human that he invited over for a meal.

This video is just explaining what personification is and examples. It even goes farther with giving the us a new word, Anthropomorphism. Saying how people get it confused with personification. Anthropomorphism is animals given human characteristics.

BIG QUESTION

With all the time, effort and money in college, in the end is the result even worthwhile?

Hamlet's Essay

In the book Hamlet performative utterance played a big role. Performative utterance is "doing of an action." Hamlet's actions and self-overhearing help us understand the story clearer. Self- overhearing is when one talks to themselves or speaks out loud.

Hamlet's actions to speak out loud (self-overhearing) let us comprehend the story better. In his "to be or not to be," speech you got a sense of what he what he was feeling. He got to understand his actions as well. During the speech he talked about how he thought death was better than dealing with all the stress placed on his shoulders. You got to see how stable he was or if he was becoming a madman. Him speaking aloud helped us see how he was feeling and how complicated his life was to deal with.

Performative utterance/action showed how he impacted the characters through interaction. You knew who he trusted and what his motives were towards others. He didn't really like others much after he saw their true colors. His only friend he trusted was Horatio. His actions towards others also affected them. His wild ways, caused others to go mad and even kill themselves. His mother didn't care for him after his behaivor, his uncle didn't trust him, his child hood friends did what his uncle told them to do, he accidentally killed Polonius, Ophelia becoming mad killed herself, and Laertes wanted to kill him. The tragic accident of Hamlet's fathers death, caused him much pain and distance himselves from others. Hamlet's actions impacted the other characters immensly.

I can see how actions and speaking aloud can help any situation. Everyone uses self-overhearing. When one is frustrated we talk aloud to ourselves to vent. I felt Hamlet's actions and self-overing was a way for him to just let everything out. He had so much bottled up, he needed to just say what bothered him. His actions where understandable when you understood how he felt.

Performative utterance and self-overheaing helped move the story along. You where able to understand how a character, not just Hamlet, felt. Having self-overhearing justified his actions or performative utterance.

What I learn from Dr. Preston's class

On thing I learned from Dr. Preston's class is not to procrastinate. In this class you don't really benfit with procrastinating. Especially with reading your literary analysis book. I have always procrastinating my whole life. I usually don't study for the vocab test until Thursday. Though I do think I do better when studying the last day only because everything is fresh in my mind and usually I remember things easier. This however, does not help me in the long run. After studying the for one day and then using them the next. I really have no more use for them. So all the words I learned gets pushed to the back burner. Then I don't even remember them a week later. Another flaw with my technique is when Dr. Preston surprised us with having the quiz on Thursday. Figuring this out a period before, I had not even written the definitions and had no idea what any words meant but a few. So as you can see procrastinating might help me sometimes, but I have learned from this class that maybe that is not a wise choice.

Roy Christopher Notes

One major thing I remember most from Roy Christopher: was how he talked about the different generations.

-Roy Christopher
•Started out in 1980's.
•He was a BMX rider/skateboarder.
•Couldn't find a publisher for his first book, so he self-published it.

-Trust the youth
•Older generation has no trust in younger generation
•They Are not familiar with the technology
•Born into a certain technology some generations will be able to adapt better.
•Older generation: new technology is foreign to them. They don't know how to use it and think if they can't use it we shouldn't? (maybe there more scared if they can't get the hang if something)


-Screen play is a key point in life now.
•How more true could that statement be. Most technology has a screen. Examples: Tv, computer, iPod,cell phone, etc.
•Apple is always making something new with a touch screen now.

-Our enviroment affects our technology, technology doesn't affect our enviroment.
•Technology is part of enviroment

-Multi-tasking is normal for our generation.
•Many teens, will multi-task. If they are on the computer, they are probably on many websites. Example a teen while doing homework is also on facebook.
•Multi-tasking is not the same for older generation because they will usually stick to one task.

-Digital Maturity
•Know the technolgy
•And how it works