#1 lit. anal.

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read.
-this novel is a story about Celie's life. As a child she was abused by her father (Pa) and he raped her. She also was forced to marry someone who was abusive.

2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
-the this novel is violent because the all the times she was abused and treated badly, also the other girls in the story like her sister. It is also in a way racial because it's about an African american lady in a bad town surrounded by bad things like violence(stereotypical) (cliche).

3. Describe the author's tone. Include three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
-this novels tone to me is intense and serious or sad. Her whole life she was abused and treated like dirt, which is sad. And she also was beat and raped which is intently terrifying. Also this isn't a funny laugh about her sad life novel. Your suppose to feel putty for her and her life with the other people around her either in the same boat as her or the one abusing her or others.

4. Describe five literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthen your understanding of the theme and/or your sense of the tone. Include three excerpts (for each element) that will help your reader understand each one.
-the writing is intense and its her diction thatmakes you understand her problems. It makes you kind of interested in her life and you want to know if it gets better or if it stays bad until she passes away. Just the way every thing is put together and how the stories are easy to understand because you can relate to what's going on right now and the stories you hear.

Vocab improvements

This week I will be making flash cards of the vocab words that I have the hardest time with. I also will be team studying with Sara Armas this week. We will go over the flash cards and figure out ways to help us re-gain the words over the 7 weeks.

To Facebook, or not to Facebook?

I think that Facebook is a good source for information on other peoples lives that you haven't seen in a while. You can use it to find out things that are happening around the world but I also believe that you shouldn't stop there. You need to continue your search with other sources you find. But you can also communicate with other peers and higher authority on a topic that you are struggling with that you need to understand better. Sometimes communicating with someone who understands it better is the best way to understand it better. I believe that Facebook is a good thing to use(it's a good resource) but don't just stop there continue with your search!

Vocab midterm review

a) What went well? 

-it was easier to do than normal because it was matching and it had both definition and the word.

  b) What didn't go well? 

-I do better when there is a paper and not on the screen because I can go at my own pace and I can cross out what I have so I don't have to look at my paper then back at the screen over and over again. Also I should have studied a lot more than I did.

 c) How much of the content will stick with you? 

-I don't think many of the words will stick with me, only some.

d) What can you learn from the experience to improve for next time?

-study a lot more! 

Vocab list #9

Abortive: Failing to produce the intended result

    

Bruit: Spread a report or rumor widely

   

Contumelious: (Of behavior) scornful and insulting

   

Dictum: A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source

  

Ensconce: Establish or settle:

    

Iconoclastic: Characterized by attacks on established beliefs or institutions

  

In medias res: A narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning

    

Internecine: Destructive to both sides in a conflict

    

Maladroit: Ineffective or bumbling; clumsy

    

Maudlin: Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness

    

Modulate: Exert a modifying or controlling influence on

    

Portentous: Done in a pompously or overly solemn manner

    

Prescience: The power to foresee the future

    

Quid pro quo: A favor or advantage granted in return for something

    

Salubrious: Health-giving, healthy

    

Saturnalian: Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute

   

Touchstone: A standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized

  

Traumatic: Emotionally disturbing or distressing

  

Vitiate: Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of, the legal validity of

 

Waggish: Humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner

   

Vocab list #8

Abeyance - A state of temporary disuse or suspension

Ambivalent - Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

Beleaguer - Beset with difficulties

Carte blanche - Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best

Cataclysm - A sudden violent upheaval, especially in a political or social context

Debauch - Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

Eclat - Brilliant or conspicuous success

Fastidious - Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

Gambol - Run or jump about playfully

Imbue - Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality

Inchoate - Just begun and so not fully formed or developed

Lampoon - Publicly criticize bu using ridicule or sarcasm

Malleable - easily influenced; pliable

Nemesis - The inescapable or implacable agent of someone's or something's downfall

Opt - make a choice from a range of possibilities

Philistine - A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them

Picaresque - Of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

Queasy - Nauseated; feeling sick

Refractory - Stubborn or unmanageable

Savoir-faire - The ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations

Vocab list #7

Aberration - An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image; a disorder in one's mental state; a state or condition markedly different from the norm

Ad hoc - For the special purpose or end presently under consideration

Bane - Something causes misery or death

Bathos - Triteness or triviality of style; a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one; insincere pathos

Cantankerous - Having a difficult and contrary disposition; stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

Casuistry - Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas; argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

De facto - In fact; in reality

Depredation - An act of plundering and pillaging and marauding; a destructive action

Empathy - Understanding and entering into another's feelings

Harbinger - an indication of the approach of something or someone; foreshadow or presage of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle

Lackluster - lacking luster or shine; lacking brilliance or vitality

Malcontent - discontented as toward authority; a person who is discontented or disgusted

Mellifluous - pleasing to the ear

Nepotism - favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power 

Pander - to gives satisfaction to

Peccadillo - a petty misdeed

Piece de resistance - the most noteworthy or prized feature, aspect, event, article, etc. of a series or group; special item or attraction

Remand - the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial; refer to another committee or authority or court for decision; lock up or confine

Syndrome - a complex of concurrent things; a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease