Man, it seems as though all of my posts have just been towards literary terms. Well, time to mix it up a little. (I apologize for this late post) My SMART goal focuses on having confidence in myself for when I head down south to go to college. I'm also going to work on an animation that is probably going to take a long time. I just want to make it short and simple, but I'm not sure if it will turn out how I want it to turn out. The worst part is that I haven't even started on it, so I have a lot of catching up to do on my senior project AND all of the posts I was supposed to have already posted on my blog but haven't. I chalk it up to being lazy and being the biggest procrastinator the world has ever seen. How I've survived this far boggles my mind because I don't feel as though I've accomplished much this semester. I honestly hate that feeling of being behind on my work. It sucks. However, I'm going to do my best to redeem myself and try to get things done. Lord knows how many Happy Days episodes I've seen by now...
Literary Terms 109-136 Remix
Rising Action: Plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancements towards climax.
Does this really need to be explained?
Romanticism: Movement beginning into the eighteenth and peeking into the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.
I love this painting. It has plenty of imagination in it.
Satire: Ridicules or condemns the weakness or wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
One of my favorite videos of all time. They also do other great satire videos and songs.
Scansion: The analysis of verse in terms of meter.
Behold! An example of scansion.
Setting: The time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.
Futurama setting for nearly every episode.
Simile: Figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word or comparison.
This is the best book to read if you want examples of simile.
Soliloquy: An extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
David Tennant is inspiring as the character of Hamlet and this speech gives me chills.
Spiritual: A folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Song called Down by the River to Pray in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? I love this song.
Speaker: The narrator, the one speaking.
<--- Speaker reading a book.
Stereotype: Cliche; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group.
I can't cook... Just saying.
Stream of Consciousness: 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.
Some information that we are able to gather from her mind.
Structure: The planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
A really lazy representation of structure.
Style: The manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
In case you can't read the bottom part: UNINTENTIONALLY START TO MIMIC AUTHOR'S WRITING STYLE.
Subordination: Couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
For real, man...
Surrealism: A style of literature/painting that stresses the subconscious or the non rational aspects of a man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and banal.
Surrealism is my favorite art style.
Suspension of Disbelief: Suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
This movie was hilarious.
Symbol: Something that stands for something else, yet has meaning of its own.
The Scarlet Ibis is a very depressing story that uses many symbols between the bird and the mentally handicapped brother.
Synesthesia: The use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Music and colors blended together.
Synecdoche: Another form of name changing, in which a part stands for a whole.
I honestly had nothing better to use as an example, but it shall suffice.
Syntax: The arrangements and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
This is rather self explanatory.
Theme: Main idea of the story; it's message(s)
I've read a lot of books with these themes.
Thesis: A proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
I wish I had that coffee cup...
Tone: The devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.
A video that put together scenes from an episode of Spongebob Squarepants and made it look like a horror film trailer, which I find hilarious. The tone is daunting.
Tongue in Cheek: A type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness.
Example: (After wife cleans the house) Husband: Oh, hun! Did you even clean today? Look at this house! (Laughs) I'm only kidding with you! You did a great job!
I could not find an example I liked so I decided to write up one just for the hell of it.
Tragedy: In literature, any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event.
Rather tragic, wouldn't you say?
Understatement: Opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
HA! I get it.
Vernacular: Everyday speech.
The worst example yet but the easiest term to remember.
Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.
Calvin and Hobbs is my jam.
Zeitgeist: The feeling of a particular era in history.
Happy Days has been consuming me lately so I thought I might make a tribute to it. This takes us back to the 50's, which is an era I wouldn't mind living in.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Literary Term 83-108 Remix
Omniscient Point of View: Knowing all things, usually the third person.
From a point of view other than first person.
Onomatopoeia: Use of a word whose sound on some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.
I quite enjoy this. I've always enjoyed onomatopoeia's.
Oxymoron: Figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.
You can figure this one out...
Pacing: Rate of movement; tempo.
Pretty much the same thing.
Parable: A story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.
Story in the Bible called "Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors".
Paradox: A statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.
This is somewhat of a paradox.
Parallelism: The principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.
The example would've been better but I like representing things through music so here we are.
Parody: An imitation or mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well known artist.
One of my favorite movies of all time: Spaceballs. The whole movies is a parody on Star Wars.
Pathos: The ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.
This pretty much describes what the word means, but more complex.
Pedantry: A display of learning for its own sake.
Oh boy. Here comes the grammar police. AKA: Kelli G.
Personification: A figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
I just love this book. A perfect example of personification.
Plot: A plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.
It's poorly represented, but represented nonetheless.
Poignant: Eliciting sorrow or sentiment.
I cry nearly every time. :( Dear lord, why must Disney write such a sad scene??
Point of View: The attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.
This, too, is self-explanatory.
Postmodernism: Literature characterized by experimentation, irony, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.
Their videos are awesome. It's so new and inviting by how they convey messages.
Prose: The ordinary form of spoken and written language, language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.
Another crappy example, but it's simple and it's the truth.
Protagonist: The center character in a work of fiction, opposes antagonist.
Everyone loves Mario. He's my main protagonist.
Pun: Play on words, the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.
That's... aha, that's well played.
Purpose: The intended result wished by an author.
I'm starting to grow lazy with these examples; not gunna lie.
Realism: Writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.
I'm not sure if this is such a good example, but it's how I interpreted it.
Refrain: A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
I should know. I sing religious songs all the time.
Requiem: Any chant, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
I took this from the movie Requiem for a Dream because it reminded me of the literary term and the music produced for the movie will help me remember the symbol of death in the movie.
Resolution: Point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
Actually, the problem continues to grow, but the complication with the stone is solved at least.
Restatement: Idea repeated for emphasis.
I wonder what it would be like if our school did this...
Rhetoric: Use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.
A great speech from Mikey in The Goonies. He was able to persuade the gang into continuing the journey.
Rhetorical Question: Question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
I very much like this. :)
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Literary Term 57-82 Remix
Genre: A category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, and content.
Genre, ladies and gentlemen. You can't get any better than that.
Gothic Tale: Style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent, or grotesque action, and a mood of decay degeneration, and decadence.
Gris Grimly is an amazing artist, but that's not the point. Edgar Allan Poe is known for his gothic tales.
Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
We all knew where this was going once we heard Rolly say "I'm hungry"... A great movie.
Imagery: Figures of speech or vivid description, conveying messages through any of the senses.
There you are. All five senses that correspond with imagery.
Implication: A meaning or understanding that is to be arrived at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.
Implication: A subtle way of making something blatantly obvious.
Incongruity: The deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.
That's just... that's just not right.
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.
What can you infer from this picture? She's calling in sick, duh.
Irony: Contrast between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, and what expects to be happening and what is actually happening.
There you have it, folks. Irony by Bender Rodriguez in Futurama.
Interior Monologue: Form of writing which performs the inner thoughts of a character.
There we go. We gotta have some Steve Martin in there somewhere.
Inversion: Words out of order for emphasis.
And, really, nearly every line Yoda says in the Star Wars movies are words out of order, but it fits.
Juxtaposition: The intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences, or paragraph to contrast with another nearby.
A bit extreme, but it fits the context very well. Tanks and toddler tricycles don't mix well.
Lyric: Poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author's inner most thoughts and feelings.
The lyrics are awesome (for most Beatles songs)
Magic(al) Realism: Genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical.
The only story I can recall that has magical realism in it. I remember it well.
Metaphor: An analogy that compares to different things imaginatively.
-Extended: Metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
-Controlling: A metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.
-Mixed: Metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.
The music is relaxing. Here's a few metaphors as an example.
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.
It's not the greatest example, but the meaning is the same.
Mode of Discourse: Argument, narration, description, and exposition.
Man, not very creative on the remix part here, am I? Nonetheless, this will help me remember the term.
Modernism: Literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology.
That chair is awesome. It's a type of modernism, but probably not the type that's asked for.
Monologue: An extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.
A great scene from Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting and a great monologue. (Excuse the cursing, it's a great movie)
Mood: The predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.
The mood is haunting in this ghost story that Fonzie tells in Happy Days and despite the laughter, he was able to create the mood and scare the children. A classic scene.
Motif: A recurring feature in a piece of literature.
I chose this book because Tim O'Brien uses motif in nearly all of his books.
Myth: A story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.
He's a myth. A very terrifying myth that haunts your dreams, but he most definitely is a mysterious... monster... man... thing.
Narrative: A story or description of events.
Creative, no? The events in a story here are listed briefly.
Narrator: One who narrates, or tells, a story.
Peter Falk in Princess Bride is the narrator of the story.
Naturalism: Extreme form of realism.
I was a bit confused as to how to show this, but I think this example will suffice... I think.
Novelette/Novella: Short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.
I adore this one man animated film that took eight years to make. Plus, it's hilarious.
