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"Hope" by Emily Dickinson

Title:
Giving hope to people. Or having hope.

Paraphrase:
"Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words" These lines are clearly comparing hope with the qualities of a bird.

"And sore must be the storm,That could abash the little bird, That kept so many warm." Hear it seems Dickinson is criticizing anyone who could try and squash any amount of hope.

Connotation:
"And sore must be the storm" Here sore seems to mean more evil or bad.
"That kept so many warm" Keeping someone warm means positive or hopeful.
"It asked a crumb of me" It being the hope as a bird, where a crumb being close to nothing that hope required in return.
Attitude:
Dickinsons' attitude is that she seems to value hope very highly, all of its characteristics and the feelings it brings.
Shift:
There is a slight shift in from describing hope to how it can exist ins some of the chillest lands or strangest seas.
Title revisited:
Hope is what she is describing, not the theme.
Theme:
Hope, like a bird, is something so gentle and kind that can lift even the heaviest of souls and so be cherished and left to do its good biding.

SEVENTH READING

LIFE
by: Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

IFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall?
Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
What though Death at times steps in,
And calls our Best away?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O'er hope, a heavy sway?
Yet Hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair!




Hope     

by: Emily Dickenson




Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.




As I Walked Out One Evening

  by W. H. Auden


As I walked out one evening,
   Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
   Were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
   I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
   'Love has no ending.

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
   Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
   And the salmon sing in the street,

'I'll love you till the ocean
   Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
   Like geese about the sky.

'The years shall run like rabbits,
   For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
   And the first love of the world.'

But all the clocks in the city
   Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
   You cannot conquer Time.

'In the burrows of the Nightmare
   Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
   And coughs when you would kiss.

'In headaches and in worry
   Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
   To-morrow or to-day.

'Into many a green valley
   Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
   And the diver's brilliant bow.

'O plunge your hands in water,
   Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
   And wonder what you've missed.

'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
   The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
   A lane to the land of the dead.

'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
   And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
   And Jill goes down on her back.

'O look, look in the mirror,
   O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
   Although you cannot bless.

'O stand, stand at the window
   As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
   With your crooked heart.'

It was late, late in the evening,
   The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
   And the deep river ran on. 

- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15551#sthash.qY10ShaT.dpuf

Brave New World ch 8-9

Brave New World ch 6- 7

Brave New World ch 4 - 5

Brave New World ch 2 - 3

LIT TERMS APPLIED

test was awfully hard for me.
I did study all of the terms and I am good at defining them, but not good enough to find them from passages.
And especially when they only appear for 10 seconds.
After the test, I realized that I need to study more on the terms and also need to learn to read faster...

Writing As Spectator Sport

 Matthew Patel (http://mpatelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/)
I saw Matt writing and he was very focus on it! I cannot really read his paper but I am sure he did a great job!!

Felicitas Ruiz (http://fruizrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/)
Even if the time was short, Feli just aced this essay. She has her prewrite very neat and organized. Her essay has enough examples and quotes! Muy bien :)

Valerie Gonzalez  (http://vgonzalezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/)
Valerie and I got 'phinxed' by Isaiah. I was in panic for a long time but Valerie knew what to write right away. I was jealous!! I think she wrote about " Great Expectations" and I remember that she was very focused.

Megan Hardisty (http://mhardistyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/)
Her pre-write looks great! It is very organized and I see that she knows what she is writing about. Also her actual essay looks good too. I like her hook!

Hayden Robel (http://hrobelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/)
Woah, I am sorry but I cannot read his essay... But his pre-write looks good. I usually use bubble diagram too. And his essay.... I am sure it is great too! Maybe work on your writing next time haha

FIRST QUARTER REVIEW

To tell you the truth, I have been so lazy this quarter. I did all of my assignments but I did not try them hard as I did last semester. I know I should not do this but since I have been busy for last three and a half years in high school, I feel like I need a break. 
For my senior project... I am actually really stuck on that. I want to make it special but I cannot think of anything right now. CWG and BQ, great.

Next quarter, I need to start motivating again for AP tests. I do not want to waste freakin' $81 worth of the test (DISGUSTING AMOUNT<yes, I am mad.>) And I will pay attention more in class, sorry Dr. Preston!

Suggestions? Before the AP test, we should work on some reading materials(?) Like those reading and answering questions thing. I really need to work on that.

Lit Term 108-End

1. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

      
2. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax.

3. Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and pearking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

4. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

 
5. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

6. Setting: the time and place in whcih events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur. 

     
7. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

8. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

       
9. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

10. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

11. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

12. 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.

13. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

14. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

 
15. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

16. 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.

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

18. Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own.

             
19. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

 

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

21. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence. 

22. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).

23. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disapproved: the main idea.

24. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.

25. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan"     

BOB I

Good!
(not in order)
Danielle Galindo: http://danig14.blogspot.com/
Valerie Gonzalez: http://vgonzalezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Reed Conforti: http://rconfortirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Samantha Garrison: http://sgarrisonrhsenglitcomp.blogspt.com/
Megan Hardisty: http://mhardistyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Abby Kuhlman: http://akuhlmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Isiah Mabansag: http://isiahmabansag.blogspot.com/ 
Conor McNamara: http://www.csmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Josh Ng: http://jngrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Dulce Vargas: http://dvargasrhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/  
Nathan Oh: http://norhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Matthew Patel: http://mpatelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Felicitas Ruiz: http://fruizrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Erika Snell: http://www.esnellrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Alex Lane: http://alanerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Ashley Wilburn: http://awilburnrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Chanel Yamaguchi: http://cyamaguchirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Devon Tomooka: http://dtomookarhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Tanner Tuttle: http://ttuttlerhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/ 
Ryunhee Kim: http://rkimrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Travis Knight: http://tmkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Justin Thompson http://jthompson2rhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Mid!
(Not in order)Cassidy Ashlock:  http://cashlockrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Sebastian Guillen: http://sguillenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Troy Prober: http://tproberrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Alicia Hernandez: http://ahernandezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Haleigh Jones: http://hjonesrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/  
Brady Redman: http://bredmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Need to catch up!

(Not in order)

Karianne LaPlante: http://kariannelaplantesblog.blogspot.com/

Brittany Cunningham: http://bcunninghamrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Kristofer Green: http://kgreenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Jason Reinwald: http://www.jreinwaldrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Carly Koertge: http://ckoertgerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Bailey Nelson: http://bnelsonrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Conner Patzman: http://cpatzmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Colleen Livingstone: http://clivingstonerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com

I AM HERE

My SMART goal is to find my future goal. I have not find them yet. I still does not know what i want to study in college or what I want to become. AHHHHHHHH! Oh well, hopefully I can find them soon. My senior project... I still have no idea what I can do for that. I want to make it special but I have nothing special in my mind... yet. Collaborative working group? Well, I don't really like studying with a group but if it is a project, then I love collaborating. To tell you the truth, I am so stressed out about colleges that I cannot concentrate in school right now. I try to do  all the homework and concentrate in the class, but I have no strength or energy. I know this is my problem and I have to fix it for myself, but (man...) I am so nervous...

Lit Term 83-108

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

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

    
3. 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.

4. Pacing: rate of movement; tempo.

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

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

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

8. Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

9. Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

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

11. Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.

12. Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

13. Poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

14. Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physcial point from which the observer views what he is describing.

15. Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontradictional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

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

   
17. Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

18. Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

19. Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

20. Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

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

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

23. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

24. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

25. Rhetoric: use of language, both writeen and verbal in order to persuade.