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lit terms

exposition
expressionism
fable
fallacy
falling action
farce
figurative language
flashback
foil
folk tale
foreshadowing
free verse
genre
gothic tale
hyperbole
imagery
implication
incongruity
inference
irony

Big Question

On the day of finals I said that my big question was" To learn how to blow sh*t up with my mind." The idea came from the movie Accepted. I have no idea if I will follow at all or what with happen with this idea, it had just come to my mind during class. Here is a clip from the movie to show my inspiration.

Blackout??

Trying to do hw and studying when Bang!!! blackout and no power. Now all I have is this and now way to finish my hw. Well this is just great!!!!!

Poetry Remix

Edagar Alan Poe: Alone
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"This is an ironic representation of "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe used this poem to express a dark and gloomy tone and how he feels alienated. This poems meaning connects with many of us. That is why we utilized multiple voices to symbolize that we all may feel alone but we are really together as a collective body.", Ephraim Rodriquez.

Ps sorry for not having it up sooner, couldn't get the link to work, and sorry for it not being centered i used the HTML code to put it in and don't know how to center it.   

Lit Anal #3 Moby Dick

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Moby dick

1.      The story starts in Nantucket with Ishmael, in the town he meets Queequeg who quickly becomes his friend, together they sign up as crew on the Pequod. It is setting out on a voyage to hunt sperm whales in the Atlantic Ocean. As they board the ship and set off they don’t see or hare from the Captain Ahab, instead they are commanded by Starbuck the first mate. It isn’t for a while that Ahab starts to appear on the deck, Ishmael steadily learns more and more about him. Mainly that he lost his leg to a massive whale. As they are at sea they get word from another captain that the whale was spotted not too far away and Captain Ahab persuades the crew to fallow the whale. They end up finding and attaching the Wale named Moby Dick. The first mate Starbuck become more and more worried about the mental state of his caption but is hushed by the captain and crew. Finally the wale attacks the ship and kills almost all the crew Ishmael is the only one to survive and sees his captain refusing to give up until he dies to try to kill the whale.

2.      The theme of the novel is that obsession can and will drive people to extreme ends and out of their minds. This is seen in Captain Ahab and his obsession with hunting down and killing Moby Dick which eventually leads to the death of almost all of his crew.   

3.      The tone of Moby Dick displayed the sense of madness that Captain Ahab was filled by, example “Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up” this quote shows just how far he is willing to go to get revenge on the whale that took his leg.

4.      There are lots of examples of literary elements throughout the novel,

·   “Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called of yore” I thought this was interesting quote that incorporated many techniques; first it’s an attempt of humor in the novel through a pun. Also it is a rhetorical question said by Ishmael.

·   “Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so is the lord and master of that school technically known as the schoolmaster” I thought that this was an interesting part, it’s an allusion to normal society but at the same it can have deeper meaning. One could be that the crew themselves are also a school.

·   “The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.” This was at the end of the play and I believe that it represents the whole book, it says that through all the drama that they went through only one person made it out and that was Ishmael who was the only one would truly deserved to live through it all.

Characterization

1.      One major example of indirect characterization is how Ishmael learns about the captain, in the start of the novel Ishmael doesn’t see Ahab rather he learns about him ad his past from the crew and how they describe him example, “after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously. Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.” As for direct characterization there are many description of various characters such as Ahab in, “There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any. He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness” It is very important to incorporate bother types of characterization throughout novel and that is exactly what Melville did.

2.      I would say yes, when there is dialogue between the crew they speak with a different syntax than the descriptions, the crew tends to use words and phrases that are associated with their time and placement in society. Example, “"Why, thou monkey," said a harpooneer to one of these lads, "we've been cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale yet.” I would guess that it is written this was is for historical accuracy, it would be weird if sailors were speaking like highly educated gentlemen.

3.      Ishmael is dynamic, he starts off as a very shy and intimidated man of gob, but as he learns the ways of whalers he becomes more and more confident and eventually takes stand for himself. But even through that he still has a hesitance that the other lack and eventually that is why he lives and they all died.

4.      I think that after the book finished I should say that I know have a in-depth understand of a character that I can say that I know but it’s quite different. I just read a book and Ishmael was just the main character I didn’t really get a deep connection of any sort.  

Geo-Guesser

This game is so much fun with friends. This has been and still is very stressful week, it would be so much fun to just spend classes playing it.  Play here!