Masterpiece Academy Question

I feel that all the students in the class deserved to be treated as colleagues. The reason I feel this way is because the curriculum was set up for an arena of discussion. It encouraged me and my classmates to discuss and challenge each other.  We were also given the freedom to generate ideas and to make gut decisions or comments in class. We may not have agreed with another person’s opinion but we respected each other.  

 

Although not to the extent of what happened in Poisonwood Bible, I saw myself in Nathan. He put himself and his family at risk for the mere fact that he wanted to spread his religion. He was so driven to spread his religion that nothing was going to stop him. I get the same way when I am really passionate about something. That “thing” for me right now is physical therapy.

 

The passion that drives me currently is to further my education. If I don’t further my education I can’t move forward to my ultimate goal of becoming a Physical therapist. That is why I am going to be majoring in Kinesiology at Sacramento State next year. No matter what decisions those around me are making, I feel like I have almost always made the right ones because I am so driven to reach my goal.

 

The thing that made me laugh out loud in this class was reading “Brave New World” and how they went about controlling their society through the creation of their class system. The class system just seemed totally ridiculous to me. They purposely created people with disabilities when they could’ve just created everyone equal.

 

I noticed that most people, including myself looked like a dear in the headlight while presenting their passions. While presenting we kind of fumbled through trying to find the right words to say, knowing we had a class full of intelligent kids staring at us waiting for us as the presenter to paint a picture in their minds of how we see our passion.

 

I thought that I did relatively good work in this class along with my other classes. You can’t really argue with a 4.2 grade point average. This class showed me how important networks are because they not only allow you to reach out to others for information, but for other to reach out to you. Collaboration is a great way to learn because one person can start out with an idea and the other people in that network can add to it to make it something great.

Physical Therapy Prezi

http://prezi.com/doubrinzvvwv/physical-therapy/

MacBeth Reading Notes

·         Lady Macbeth alarms people by moving in her sleepwalking trance like state, complains of blood on her hands

·         Macbeth wildly making military preparations

·         Macbeth confident in his army over the approaching Englishmen, worried about Lady Macbeth

·         Macbeth is informed about Death of queen and approaching “forest” which is actually army in disguise

·         Alarms Macbeth because the “forest army” is fulfilling the first part of the witches death prophecy for Macbeth

·         Claims he will at least die fighting

·         Macbeth and Macduff fight on the battle field, Macduff wins and returns with Macbeth’s head to castle

Inspiration

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pEBz6PzF50

Look At My Brain

Right now I'm just researching as much as I can on my person interest which is physical therapy. I'm not really sure how I am going to present it to the class yet. So as of now I just need a way to present it so it will not be boring for the class

Lit Analysis #1

No Exit

Summary: I believe the summary of this book is how people torture us. This day and age we let people limit us and put negative thoughts in our heads. We choose to believe other people's opinions rather than just doing your own research and having your way of doing things or your opinions.

Theme: We don't believe in ourselves. We let other people control our actions, thoughts, and words by letting them fill our mind with garbage. Have self confidence.
Tone: The authors tone is very harsh. The way he describes the torture for Estelle, Garcin, and Inez is very cruel and hard. I think just being in one room with the same people everyday can kill a mam. Describing hell even when they don't want to is very harsh also.
Literary Elements:

Symbolism: Hell is supposed to be torture and awful but instead their hell is nice with couches and sofas. Also the torture chamber is just a drawing room.

Diction: The way the characters talk to each other and always bicker and fight is a interesting choice of diction.

Characterization: There are so many different ways of characterization and one is Garcin's lack of confidence. He always ask for other peoples opinions and approval. The protagonists are static because they don't stop the mind games going on by all of them. They go crazy without even realizing they can avoid it.

Essay Rough Draft: (1979)

Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of
recognized literary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone,
be considered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and
why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more
sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary.

       In Brave New World Huxley portrays John as an immoral person in many different ways. The most clear way was by naming him John the savage. As the book goes on it becomes more and more apparent that John is immoral by the World State's standards because he refuses premarital sex, he cares about death, is against the use of soma, and demands emotional commitment. The people within the society do not understand him because they are all told to believe in certain things from the day they are born, which leaves John to be an outsider due to their opposing beliefs. This ultimately leaves the reader no choice but to feel sympathetic towards him.
       In the World State everyone is taught to believe in a certain way of living, anyone who believes different is looked at as immoral. John "the Savage" was looked at as immoral by the World State due to the fact that he was unable to adapt to their society and their beliefs. He didn't believe in the use of soma, the way people "have each other", and almost anything else the people of society believed in. At one point we even see him throw soma out of a window which is seen as immoral by the World State. Huxley uses indirect characterization by naming him John "The Savage", to show the reader right up front that he is an immoral character.
       From the moment we meet John until the end of the book when we find out that he hung himself, we see that he is constantly punishing himself. For example, when John finds himself enjoying making tools while he is in the 'wilderness', he punishes himself for the fact of enjoyment. "But, John... I thought you were... I mean, aren't you?...", Lenina doesn't understand why John wont have her, even though he likes her. John punishes himself when he thinks of Lenina in an intimate way because he sees it as an impure thought. We can relate to John because he wants to be good, just like we do. Us as readers can't help but feel for him in this situation because he wants to be with her more than anything, but can't be due to the lack of emotional commitment on her part.
       To someone that has not read the book john may seem like a normal guy, but to someone that has read the book and sees that Huxley is portraying the World Sate to be the "normal" civilization will note that John is immoral, due to the fact that he goes against all their beliefs. Huxley causes us to fully see John's immorality when he kills himself at the end of the book. No matter what angle you look at this, whether it's from the World State's or from your own personal view, the act of one committing suicide is seen as immoral.
        John's character was created by Huxley to be the protagonist in the novel and in some ways make the World State seem less immoral. As the book goes on Huxley makes John seem more immoral and out of place. This is what causes us to feel sympathetic towards him, he becomes so lonely and frustrated that he turns to suicide. Huxley used that as a way to connect the readers life to the book because this sort of thing happens in the real world.  
     

Professional - Questions

• How long did it take for you to own your own business?
• What should i focus on most in college to be successful?
• What kinds of treatment, other than rehabilitation of muscles, do physical therapists do?
• What is a typical day like for a physical therapist?
• What can i do to become a successful physical therapist?

Welcome to My Blog

Here is some motivation, I know its the end of the year and we could all use a little.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MNL_DAI19_I

Lit Analysis #2

Summary:Brave New World is a fictional novel that takes place in the future. Babies are not born, they are developed in test-tubes. They are developed to different standards of intelligence, the Alphas are the ruling class, then the Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. They are all taught from the time they are born on to be content with their lives. When they aren't at work they spend their time in superficial pleasures, nobody thinks about or discusses anything serious. The famous american businessman Henry Ford is worshiped as God. There is no history, no culture, and no love. Bernard is an Alpha, but he is smaller than the average Alpha so he feels kind of inferior. He takes a trip with Lenina to a savage reservation that is fairly dirty, but is also free. He likes the idea of being free. He ends up bringing a kid named John back to his civilized and controlled world. John likes it and seem to be having fun at first, but doesn't not like that everyone acts the same like robots. John starts to destroy tons of the drug Soma that everyone uses. Bernard and Helmholtz are called in by the Director and are both exiled. John stays and moves into the mountains. After sometime John sees Lenina and starts whipping her and a crowd circles them and watches. Bernard is found in his house dead because he hung himself.

Theme: IndividualityIn this book society can be described as an effort to eliminate the individual from society. It means the conditioning of those people so that they don't really think of themselves as individuals. This sense includes both the joy of one's own talents and thoughts, and the sorrows of loneliness and isolation. These experiences of individuality are what are referred to as "the Human condition," and everything in the World State is designed to avoid anyone ever feeling individual in any way, either through sadness or joy.  

Tone: IronicHuxley is writing about how humanity always seeks pleasure instead of pain, and then shows examples of how makes society just a bunch of sheep's. Only the outcasts can really think outside of the box, but even then, it's limited. Only someone who is truly not from that society can think beyond.


Literary Techniques:

Figurative Language: "Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver."

Irony: "What's the matter?' asked the Director.  The nurse shrugged her shoulders.  'Nothing much,' she answered.  'It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play."

Alliteration: "There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep"

Metaphor: "In a few minutes there were dozens of them, standing in a wide circle round the lighthouse, staring, laughing, clicking their cameras, throwing (as to an ape) peanuts, packets of sex-hormone chewing gum..." "The ape had spoken; there was a burst of laughter and hand-clapping." 

Similie: "He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw-knew it, with sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.Twins, twins.... Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of linda's death."

 

Brave New Essay

            Fifty years from now the world that we have grown up in will probably seem outdated due to the production of new technology. In Huxley’s Brave New World, the society includes many of the same principles that we can compare to our everyday life. Our present world does not seem to compare to that of Brave New World, but many similarities exist. When you think about it, the fact that our world has similarities to this book, can be kind of frightening. Some of the similarities in the book and our own world include the decrease in peoples pain tolerance, teaching through technology, and segregation.
            Huxley introduces the drug soma, which compares to the painkillers that currently exist in our world today. The drug makes the user unaware of his surroundings. People have turned to the use of pain relievers even when they are not needed. Thus causing the pain tolerance to decrease;  most people think that as soon as they feel some kind of pain they should automatically turn to painkillers. It seems like life in Brave New World cannot function without the drug soma, and i think this is slowly starting to take place in our world.
             In Brave New World they use hypnopaedia practices to educate the society on how to live, just like technology is constantly feeding us with information today. Hypnopaedic practices, a voice under the pillow constantly plays and feeds information to the person sleeping telling them how to live life. This relates to how the technology today is always feeding us with new information at the click of a button. Hypnopaedia causes the society in Brave New World ti live the way the government wants them to live. We try to live life the most perfect way we possibly can, just like in Brave New World. Hypnopaedia tells people how to live their life in Brave New World, and in our society, advertisements and television try to tell us how to live ours.
              Social discrimination doesn't seem as notable in our lives as it does in Brave New World, it still exists. Brave New World consists of five social classes; Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The higher classes look down upon people from the lower classes. They do not appreciate all the hard work that the working class does because hypnopaedia has taught them not to. In our society we are divided into four major classes; the wealthy, middle-class, blue-collar workers, and the homeless. The wealthy class in our society may not look down upon the people in the classes below them, but they would probably not want to trade places with them. Some may not see this as segregation because they have become so used to the society that they do not notice these things. Just like in Brave New World, our society does not acknowledge all that the working class does for us because we sometimes take what we have for granted.
             Many similarities exist between our society and the Brave New World society which I personally do not think is a very good thing. This novel may make some people a little uneasy because Huxley has shown us our world from a different perspective, even though the circumstances in Brave New World seem ridiculous. When you look closely are they really that different? In Brave New World, love may not seem prominent because of the fact there is a lack of personal relationships. People express their love for someone by wanting to be with them. Whereas in our society, we express our love through affection and compassion. The circumstances in Brave New World show relevance to situations today, just in ways we may not realize after first glance.

I Am Here

I think this semester I started out kinda slow, I think due to the break, but I feel like I have stepped my game up since then. I have not started working on my senior project yet, I'm still trying to decide what I'd like to do it on. I am currently looking into finding connections to physical therapists that own businesses to see what they did to become so successful.

Brave New Essay Topic

Topic: Are the circumstances in BNW relevant today?

I personally think so, we don't have to worry about there being tons of the same person walking around. We do however have a class system, although it is not really like the one in the book. It depends on how hard you work and how determined you are. 

I would continue taking examples from the book and comparing them to the real world.

Lit Terms #6

Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through 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: cliché; 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; a.k.a. “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 (fatally) flawed

Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying 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 a particular era in history

Lit Analysis #1

Catch 22

Plot Summary:
Set toward the end of World War II in 1944, on an island off the coast of Italy, Joseph Heller's Catch 22 is a satirical antiwar novel. It features a not-so-heroic protagonist who struggles to deal with the insanity of war and concludes that the only sane response to it is not to participate in it. American army pilot John Yossarian is a protagonist lacking some traditionally heroic qualities. He is obsessed with being rotated out of active flight duty His commander, Colonel Cathcart, keeps raising the number of missions the men in the squadron must fly before they can be rotated out. Yossarian is desperate to find another way out of his dilemma. He asks the squadron's doctor, Doc Daneeka, to declare him unfit for duty by reason of insanity. Daneeks refuses, citing the mysterious Catch-22. If Yossarian asks to be let out of his duties, he must be sane. Only a crazy man would want to continue to fly missions, but the only way Daneeka can ground him, according to Catch-22, is if he asks to be grounded-which would indicate his sanity.

Theme:
Idealism vs. Opportunism:
Nately is the most foolish of idealists. He believes in things like love and nationalism. His idealistic love for his prostitute costs him quite a bit of money. Similarly, the old man who runs the brothel treats him like a fool. Nately passionately exclaims that America is indestructible. The old man points out that "The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say that America, with all its strength and prosperity . . . will last as long as . . . the frog?" (253). Put this way, Nately's idealism seems foolish. Yet, the old man's opportunism does not save him. When the brothel is cleared out, he cannot take it and dies.

Tone:
Gloomy:
The mood is pretty gloomy, just like war. However, the author twists the mood, and drastically changes the tone by including elements of humor and satire. For example, "'Gee I guess he really is dead,' grieved one of his enlisted men in a low, respectful voice" (343). The fact that someone is dealing with death and uses the word "gee" is enough to make the reader question how sad they really are, but then it furthers the satire by stating it is in a "low, respectful voice". That quote reflects the mood/tone of the whole novel.

10 Literary Elements:
1) Repetition
 "Help him, help him" (p.50)

2)Allusion
"John Milton is a sadist" (p.97)

3) Paradox
"If he flew planes he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. " (p.46)

4) Irony
" Clevinger was a genius... a Harvard undergraduate... [going] far in the academic world... In short, he was a dope" (p. 68)

5) Dramatic Irony
"Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice" (p. 7)

6) Symbolism
"He never sends anyone home, anyway. He just keeps them waiting around waiting for rotation orders until he doesn't haven enough men left for the crews, and then raises the number of missions and throws them all back on combat status. He's been doing that ever since he got here" (p.102)

7) Verbal Irony
"I don't have nightmares" (p. 54)

8) Alliteration
"If the colonel says we have to fly fifty-five missions, we have to fly them" (p. 65)

9)Motif
"I don't want to fly milk runs" (p.103)

10) Foreshadowing
"Do you remember... that time in Rome when that girl who can't stand you kept hitting me over and over the head with the heel of her shoe? Do you want to know why she was hitting me?" (p. 25)

Characterization:
Direct characterization:
"The soldier in white was encased from head to toe in plaster and gauze."

Indirect Characterization:
Heller uses words like "suspiciously" and "guardedly" to describe the way Yossarian speaks. This reflects Yossarian's paranoid state of mind. He believes everyone is out to get him; he is very cautious all the time.

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive." Yossarian is set on coming done a live no mater what, he's going to do anything he can.


Syntax:
Heller's syntax/diction does not dramatically change at any time in the novel, but it does change slightly throughout the book. When there is lighter comedic moments his sentences are not as long and are straight to the point, but when he tries to be serious his sentences tend to be a little longer and less straight to the point, these sentences make the reader think.

Static, Flat, or Round?
Yossarian is a static character his goals stay the same throughout the whole novel, and he never changes his morals for any reason. He is set on leaving the war alive or die trying.

Meet them or read about them?
In a way I felt like I met Yossarian and was as eager as him to leave the base. I really wanted him to find a way to escape. I could feel how hopeless he felt at times.“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you”, the feeling of paranoia went way beyond just reading the words in the book.

Lit Terms #4

Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue.

Inversion: words out of order for emphasis.

Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby.

Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s innermost thoughts and feelings.

Magical Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical.

Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different things imaginatively.
Extended: a 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: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies.

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.

Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition.

Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.

Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece.

Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature.

Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.

Narrative:  a story or description of events.

Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story.

Naturalism: extreme form of realism.

Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.

Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.

Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth. ex. Many parable are in the Bible

Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

Lit Terms #3

exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation.

expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

falling action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

figurative language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).

flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

folk tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

free verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

gothic tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.

imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.

implication: a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

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.

irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.

Lit Terms #2

circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served

classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance

cliche: a phrase or situation overused within society

climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved

colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation.

comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter

conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension

connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition

contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity

denotation: plain dictionary definition

denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion

dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.

dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.

dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.

diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.

didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.

dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.

elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.

epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution).

epigram: witty aphorism.

epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.

epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character, characteristics

euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.

evocative: a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.

Lit Terms

allegory (noun): A symbolical narrative
-Throughout high school, we have read many meaningful allegories.
 alliteration (noun): The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter
- The alliteration wasn't correct but it made me laugh.
 allusion (noun): A metaphor or parable
- The Bible is used as an allusion in many novels.
 ambiguity (noun): An negative word applied to an equivocal expression
- When something is not clear, others factors can be used to resolve the ambiguity.
 anachronism (noun): Placing an event, person, item or verbal expression in the wrong historical period.
- Her grandmother was proud to be considered an anachronism when she walked down the street in a poodle skirt.
 analogy (noun): A similarity between like features of two things
- The teacher told the class to create an analogy between the two books they have read.
 analysis (noun): the separating of any material into its constituent elements
- Dr. Preston requires us to complete three literature analysis per semester.
 anaphora (noun): A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word at the beginning of a sentence
- The poem included an anaphora by having three "ifs" at the beginning.
 anecdote (noun): A brief narrative of a particular incident
- We were told to share a personal anecdote with the class.
 antagonist (noun): A character in the story who works against the main character
- The antagonist in the novel kept creating uproar for Julie.
 antithesis (noun): Opposition or contrast
- The antithesis of right is wrong.
 aphorism (noun): A terse saying involving a general truth
- "Looks to good to be true."
 apologia (noun): An apology, as in defense or justification of a belief or idea
- She wrote an apologia when she realized she was wrong.
 apostrophe (noun): A digression in the form of an address to someone not present
- There was an apostrophe in the title of the novel.
 argument (noun): A discussion involving different points of view
- The two kids got into an argument over which game was better.
 assumption (noun): Something taken for granted
- She made the assumption that he would show up.
 audience (noun): The group of spectators
- The audience was pleased with the actor's performance.
 characterization (noun): The description of a character
- The person characterized the antagonist as evil.
 chiasmus (noun): A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases
- "He went to the country, to the town she went."

AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

1. The main purpose of the first-person point of view in the passage, “I am no longer what I was, I am no longer an ascetic, no longer a priest, no longer a Brahmin” is to make what clear?a. The change in Siddhartha’s physical lifestyle, in order to follow his spiritual oneb. Show Siddhartha’s anger at the corruption present in his father’s positionc. Reveal the frustration in Siddhartha’s journey toward enlightenmentd. The views and beliefs of his family and his religion
e. Draw attention toward the excitement that Siddhartha feels now that he has less responsibility
2.  Which figure of speech used in paragraph 1 helps to illustrate Siddhartha’s sudden standstill?
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Alliteration
d. Personification
e. Irony

3.  Which of the following best describes the author’s purpose at the end of paragraph 3?
a. Show Siddhartha giving up on his search
b. Further explain Siddhartha’s worries about Govinda
c. To show Siddhartha’s confusion within himself
d. Show Siddhartha’s inability to communicate with those whom he meets
e. Reveal the resolute path that Siddhartha now seeks

4.  The quotation “Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards”, shows a shift from…
a. Anger and resentment, toward acceptance
b. A resolute journey, onto a more free-flowing and spontaneous path
c. Fear of his parentage, toward a fear of loneliness
d. Looking to the past for enlightenment, toward looking to the future and within himself
e. Fear of failure, toward an acceptance of possibility of error.

5.  In paragraph 2, the word “asceticism” is referring to Siddhartha’s
a. Failed undertakings.
b. Hedonism.
c. Repeated achievement of inner peace.
d. Prior religious experience.
e. Pious detachment from the physical world.


Answers:1. (A) He is very religious
2. (B) "he, who was in fact like one who had awakened or was newly born, must begin his life completely afresh."
3. (E) He is deciding that he doesn't want to go back to his father and that he is going to continue on alone.
4. (D) He had a moment of realization, but turned from it and continued on.
5. (E) He detached himself from the world around him and is now alone.


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