Lit analysis # 4

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read according to the elements of plot you've learned in past courses (exposition, inciting incident, etc.).  Explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)

CHARACTERIZATION
1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization.  Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?  How?  Example(s)?
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.
4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?  Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction. 

Lit terms # 1

allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

"Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey"

 alliteration:

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Brenda's Bat Bakes Buttered Bread

 

 allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Bless me Ultima has a reference to the bible

 ambiguity: open for interpretation

Hamlet's character

 anachronism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

"everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one anachronism, a bright yellow construction crane"

 analogy:

a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

"an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies

 analysis:  detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation
An analysis of a poem includes deeper meaning, translation of it, theme etc.

 

Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

ex: “O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?”

 anecdote:  short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

ex: grandpa telling you about the good old days where the movies were a quarter

 antagonist: a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary

ex: Grendel Beowulf

 antithesis: balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

"love is the antithesis of selfishness"

 aphorism:

a pithy observation that contains a general truth.

ex: early to bed, early to rise, makes a man health and wise.

 

apologia: a justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action

 Richard Nixon's speech discussing the Watergate Scandal and his resignation.

apostrophe:  figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Oh great grandmother, if you were still alive..

 argument: the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself


 assumption: the act of supposing

ex: The butler always is the murder in the old movies!
 

audience: intended listeners

ex: people at a play
 chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

Ex: "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." - Socrates

what's in this for me?

I want to become more outgoing and engaged in connecting with others. This includes participating in class, and in just regular discussion with my peers.  By connecting with others I can have opportunities shared with me due to my connections, other than me not being involved. Me sitting and being quiet won't do me any good, its better to raise my hand and get the answer wrong than just sit without raising my hand. I want to work on participating and putting myself out there, outside of my comfort zone.

Applying knowledge I've learned into other areas other than course can benefit me and connect things in ways I never thought possible. I want able to take skills from a course and relate it to life would be extraordinary.

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*MORE CONTEMPORARY VS OLD (themes, values, etc.)

I would want to learn more about literature of then and now. How we compared Beowulf's idea of a hero vs. a hero in today's society. This makes it more easy for me to comprehend, and I can relate the themes and ideas of the literature (Beowulf in this case) to today, comparing and contrasting helps me know the basics so I am able to tell whether I know what I'm talking about or not.

We can accomplish this by adding question to the lit analysis such as, "Are the ideals, values, themes of your novel match modern society's?" This would ensure that we are drawing these connections and comparisons to at least the 3 books per semester, if not more due to an extra credit literature analysis.


* Learning about why innocence is tied with youth, and old is tied with the wise.
The old isn't always the wiser ones, and the youth isn't always necessarily innocent.

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Song : Bullet Train - Stephan Swartz

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