Friday, February 13, 2015

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism - the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning,etc. 
Parody - in use, is an imitative work created to imitate, or comment on an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation. 
Pathos - a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
Pedantry - excessive concern with minor details and rules.
Personification - the attribution of human natureor character to animals,inanimate objects, or abstractnotions, especially as a rhetoricalfigure.
Plot -  is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.
Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
Point of view- from where a readers perspective is taken 
Postmodernism - is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism
Prose- written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
Protagonist- the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Pun - the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. the word or phrase used in this way.
Purpose- the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.
Realism- the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.
Refrain- stop oneself from doing something.
Requiem- a musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character, an act or token of remembrance. 
Resolution - the action of solving a problem. 
Restatement- of the Law are a set of treatises on legal subjects that seek to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of common law.
Rhetoric- the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. 


Rhetorical Question- is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Notes and questions on Siddartha

Is the beginning a dream?
Where does this take place?
Why are the rhetorical questions significant?
Theme: inner transformation, moving on

Brahmin: highest class in India
He was finding himself and discovering himself. Asking questions and his dad didn't like it because he was a Brahmin.

"Standing still as snake was in his path" was repeated. Snake symbolizes evil and deceitfulness.

Shaking off old identity and becoming himself is sort of the same as a snake when they shed their skin

Tone: overwhelmed.  With the questions he evoked but it changes once he starts looking forward and