TPCASTT poem anal.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost-

 

Title: The title upon inspection represents something given up or ignored.

Paraphrase: A question being posed and the answer being decided

Connotation: The use of the word "Road"is used as a choice

Attitude: Optimistic with no hint of regret even thankfulness.

Shift: The shift t can be seen in the final line where frost has now clarified that everything is ok and he is better for have taking it.

Title Revisited: I was accurate in stating that the title was about a choice that was forfeited for another

Theme: The theme of this poem is not to just follow the crowd but to do whats right for you and follow your own path because in the end that will make the greatest difference

WHY?

Well that takes care of all the catching up I have to do for the most part.

Now Ive wanted to do this particular blog post for awhile and this seems like an oportune moment so here goes.

To my class mates I ask the question of why? Recently Ive been struggling with the drive to put out my best quality work because i figure why go all out when i can do the bare minimum and pass. Especially when all I have to do to get in to the collage I'm going to is basically ask to be let in. I realize this is flawed logic but humor me. So for any classmates who can offer up some kind of nugget of wisdom or reason I should care leave a comment below.

Anyway Thanks

Incorrect....

So its been brought to my attention that i did the Spectator sport thing wrong. I was supposed to add Monty Python music in the background but being that i have a particular disdain for Monty Python and his works(not bashing anyone who does just not my thing) I opted to go with some classical remix music. Hoping this wont be a problem for most

Re post Writing as A Spectator Sport

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For the sake of having these assignments in order I'm re-posting my video here! Again Enjoy.

Semester Quarter Review

1st : So i think we've established by this point that i need to put more effort in to it i get that part by now cant say its gonna happen but at least i understand it nerds too.\


2nd: Goals are as follows... do the work that I need to do so that I can get a passing grade, graduate and leave high school. Pretty good goal if you ask me but then again nobody really did.
Expectations things are only going to get harder and i guess in my case more uninteresting so i just have to make it a point to focus on it.

3rd: I have no constructive criticisms or  suggestions besides I'm sure even if i did they'd be overlooked or disregarded  there fore i have nothing. 

108-138 end Final Late list

1.Rising Action: plot build up, climax.

2.Romanticism:  movement in western culture as a revolt against Classicism.

3.Satire: A literary work that criticizes something people take seriously with the intent of improving it.

4.Scansion: the analysis of verse 

6.Setting: the time and place in which events in a story occur.




7.Simile: comparison using like or as

8.Soliloquy: an extended speech delivered by a character alone.

9.Spiritual: folk song

10.Speaker:  narrator
11Stereotype: cliche' depiction of a minority or party group

12.Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts.

13.Structure: the planned framework of a literary work

14.Style: characteristic way of writing or speaking.

15.Subordination: Defiance

16.Surrealism: a style in literature that stresses the subconscious.


17.Suspension of Disbelief:  not believing in order to enjoy.

18.Symbol: something which stands for something else but also has a meaning of its own.


19.Synesthesia: use of one sense to help to experience another sense.

20.Synecdoche: name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

21.Syntax: the arrangement of words in a sentence.

22.Theme:  main idea of a story.

23.Thesis: proposition for consideration.

24.Tone: used to create the mood and atmosphere.    

25.Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker is serious.

26.Tragedy:any story with a somber theme carried to a disastrous end; protagonist usually is heroic but flawed.



27.Understatement: saying less than you mean for emphasis

28.Vernacular: everyday speech

29.Voice: convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

30.Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular generation.

Blog Ranking's

Not that me Grading other peoples blogs mean a DAMN!! thing based on the nature of my own blog but here goes any way. 10 blogs from the class

#1 Christa Weston: Nice looking and full of content.

#2 Vincent Cruz: Up to date, full of intelligent ideas

#3 Amanda Arnold: creative designs and all work is current

#4 Taelor Griego: Missing things here and there (who am i to talk) but good work on everything

#5 Kaitlyn Furst: Nice color scheme great work on all assignments

#6 Rheanna Crawley: uhh different looking kind of blog but quality work present and all is up to date

#7 Iliana Gutierrez: Few assignment missing but overall great work

# 8 Elizabeth Hotchkiss: Great content especially like the map scheme in the back

# 9 Elizabeth Pereya: On top of the game as to be expected, nice blog work

#10 Pablo Nicasio: great world theme in the back and nice work across the board

So there you have it 10 exception logs for period 4

 

I Am Here<------

So I'm just about in the same spot I was is last semester I have let work slip and now am behind. currently have a D- and to be truthful not even sure how I managed to get that at this point. Cant promise that ill be working my hardest until the end to strive for a high grade but it wouldn't kill me to put at least a little bit of effort in to it. Well that's the update for it.

More old Lit terms 83-108..

1.Omniscient:  knowing all things.

2.Onomatopoeia: sound effect

3.Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a paradox.

4.Pacing:  rate of movement

5.Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

6.Paradox: self-contradictorystatement


7.Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

8.Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of something well known

9.Pathos: appeal to emotion

10.Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

11.Personification; attributing human qualities to an inanimate objects .

12.Plot: a plan or scheme for a purpose.

13.Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

14.Point of View: the physical point of verification.

15.Postmodernism:characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, and multiple meaning.

16.Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

17.Protagonist: Hero of the story.

 
18.Pun:  play on words.

19.Purpose: authors reason for writing.

20.Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life

21.Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in song or chorus.

22.Requiem:  any chant,hymn, or musical service for the dead.

23.Resolution: point where problem is solved

24.Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

25.Rhetoric: use of language,order to persuade.

26.Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer

Lit Terms 57-82 Old

1.Genre: a category or class of artistic content.

2.Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent action, and dark mood

3.Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement to prove a point.

4.Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description.

5.Implication: a subtle way of making something blatantly obvious.

6.Incongruity: the deliberate joining of oppositesr.

7.Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts.

 8.Irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens


9.Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character
 
10.Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

11.Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word
 
12.Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

13.Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which mixes the everyday  with the  magical.

14.Metaphor: an analogy that compare two different not using like or as.

15.Metonymy:  a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing.

16.Mode of Discourse:  argument/persuasion

17.Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition  

18.Monologue:  an extended speech by a character
 
19.Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

20.Motif:  a recurring feature

21.Myth:  a story that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

22.Narrative:  a story or description of events.

23.Narrator:  one who tells, a story.

24.Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

Time of my life...

So this  Assignment was due at the beginning of this month but here it is anyway.
Being that i don't remember how i spent my time in class on February 1st, ill simply explain how i spent my time in class today. Walked in and we had a Quiz on chapters 2-3 of "Brave New World". Then Preston Gave a lecture, Not particularly proud but after the initial points he made i kind of dozed off. So i missed about the last 6-7 min of the lecture. Not the best use of my time but i supposes it is what it is.

AP Prep: Post 1 Siddartha

1. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?
http://danig14.blogspot.com/2013/01/1.html

2. What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence?
http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html

3. Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds ofSiddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/study.html

4.Herman Hesse’s novels before Siddhartha focused on alienated young men who rejected the cultures of their upbringings. However, these other novels did not feature the spiritual elements of Siddhartha. How do the spiritual elements of Siddhartha make it different from any other story of an alienated youth?

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/study.html

5.iddhartha is a love story in addition to the story of a spiritual quest. How do Siddhartha’s romantic love for Kamala and his love for his son impact his spirituality? How does Siddhartha’s spirituality, in turn, impact Kamala and his son?

All of Them

Even though their later than they ever should have been here are the last 3 literature Analise the day before their final cut off date. I will more than likely be more current with these in the future .

Hitchhikers Lit Anal. #5

“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams is about Arthur dent a human from earth that is awakened one morning by a construction team trying to tear down his house to make way for a highway. Arthurs friend ford prefect comes and explains that a race called the Vogons are going to demolish earth to ironically build a space highway. The two escape on to a Vogon Ship and are then jettisoned in to space where they are picked up by Zaphod Beeblebrox president of the Galaxy. The group encounters dangers and hijinks. They eventually come to a supercomputer called deep though which was asked the question to the meaning of life to witch it calculated was 42. The answer was unsatisfactory therefore deep thought constructed earth which would help calculate the question that would give the answer some kind of meaning. Unfortunately just before the Earth had completed its calculation it was blown up by the Vogons. A pair of mice that escaped with Arthur when he first left reveals themselves to be sentient beings and curious about the meaning of life offer to buy Arthurs brain. He refuses which gets him in to trouble his friends rescue him in the nick of time. The group then decides to go have lunch at “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” to which the book ends and leads to the sequel. The theme is that the answers were all seeking are right in front of us as long as were not so blinded to look. Douglas’s tone is playful, serious, and whimsical as this is a crazy tale of total mind F****.

  Like many other authors and novels the author approaches characterization in two ways direct and indirect the most common and easiest of these to point out is when he describes physical attributes of the characters like the fact that Arthur is British or Ford is Black. Then through the characters actions we grow to know how their minds work and their personalities which fill the rest of the characters profiles. The author’s syntax and diction remain the same throughout regardless of what he is describing.  No Arthur remains the same neurotic constantly opposing and questioning persona that he is except for the fact that maybe he is a little bit more accepting of change. There was something about this book that just didn’t grab me so unfortunately after reading the characters just remained words on a page that didn’t make me feel for them or grab me as a reader.

Innocence in Death lit Anal #4

  Innocence in Death” another installment of the “In Death” series of novels written by J.D Robb. In this one Detective Dallas is back on the case to solve the murder of a seemingly normal history teacher of a prep school. Again this is a detective novel so most of the events follow along the lines of people being interrogated suspicion being thrown from person to person etc. Two girls were witness to the crimes Rayleen Straffo and her friend Melodie Branch. Rayleen is at the top of her class and has never received a grade lower than an A until her. She is a bright child full of promise, she also believes herself to be smarter than everyone else and she puts herself above most everyone else. Eve eventually puts two and two together after and realizes that Rayleen murdered her teacher after he gave her a B+ on her essay. She finds a diary that details the child’s plan in great detail. Eve brings her in for questioning and after a game of the minds she tricks Rayleen in to confessing to everything, she wasn’t about to let the veil of innocence fool her like it had everyone else. With the case closed Eve moves on just like always. The theme is that eventually the pressure we build up in our lives will eventually crush us. My evidence of this is Rayleen look at her; she’s a 10 year old girl who has never seen a low mark in her life who is constantly pushed by her parents to strive to be excellent in every way. So when she saw that lower grade and failed to convince her teacher to change it she snapped. The tone is dark and somber and remains so until the very end there aren’t very many other tones in a detective novel.

  So since I described Eve on the last Literature Analysis ill analyze the killer in this novel Rayleen. The Author goes about describing her basic looks brunette with long curly hair smart gifted kid. Where we really learn about her is in what she says and how she seems to have a cynical and overall disdain for those who can’t intellectually challenge her. She thinks herself an adult even though she’s only a child. Her actions also give major clues to her character and state of mind. The author uses both methods so that the reader gets a full scope of who she is and understanding shy she did what she did. When it comes to characters like Rayleen the Author keeps a strange eerie tone when speaking directly about her. Does Rayleen really change or does her demeanor just change from the beginning she is the murderer but she plays the innocent act the entire time and by the end she is tricked into singing the truth through her insanity. In this I came away reading just a character a psycho character but still just vivid words on a page.

Origin in Death Lit Anal.

“Origin in Death” written by Nora Roberts or her alias J.D Robb is about Lieutenant Eve Dallas as she attempts to solve the murder case of Dr. Icove a brilliant plastic surgeon beloved by his many patience. The story is pretty routine of a cop drama and mysteries clues are found evidence analyzed. As the story progresses Dr. Icove’s son is called into suspicion until he as well is murdered leaving Eve at a loss Clues are found evidence analyzed. She eventually stumbles upon the Icoves obsessions with perfection which spirals in to a flurry of questions which inevitably leads her to find and uncover an organization founded by the Icoves focusing and creating female clones that are genetically perfect.  The Theme of “Origin in Death” is perfection and no matter how hard you try to attain it true perfection cannot be achieved. Thought this entire series due to the characters many tragic back stories the author keeps a somber serious tone through the entire novel. J.D Robb uses suspense constantly to keep the reader on the edge and give him or her a better sense of what is transpiring by heightening the action a drawing more attention to all the details.

  The author describes Detective Eve Dallas as a young beautiful women with an aggressive and strong willed personality. She constantly tells people how incompetent or stupid their being when she actually cares deeply for them all. It seems as though she treats the people closest to her the worst. Most of the time when there is some kind of action or revelation Eve’s actions directly explains how she is on the inside. The author uses both approaches to fully develop Eve as someone relate-able. The only notable thing I can see that changes when the author talks about character is that the tone changes to be more human and motherly as if J.D Robb holds these characters very close to her. For the most part Eve stays static she is very clearly defined at the beginning and hardly changes through to the end. This is one of the few books I’ve read (since it’s a series) that I really did connect with the characters and took away that I really had met people.