"Thinking"

Post your response to the following by 3pm Wednesday September 1st:

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
Albert Einstein

What might Einstein be suggesting about "modes of thinking"?

Welcome Newbies August 2010

To become acquainted with the class blog, please post a brief initial introduction. How do you feel about reading, and why did you choose to take this course? Remember, blog posts need to conform to the rules of Standard Written English, so no "txt speek" please. And most importantly, you must include your name at the end of each post in order to receive credit.

Last vocab test words! sniff....

foremost
lucid
exuberant
quasi....
aubade
cathartic
soporific
Romanticism - define
spondee
Horatian satire
Juvenalian satire
verbal irony
invective
gossamer
nebulous
inertia
entropy
stasis
tether
fetters
inconclusive
ambiguous

Poetry Terms

Alliteration

Apostrophe

Assonance

Blank verse (is NOT the same as Free verse!)

Cacophony

Cadence

Caesura

Conceit

Connotation

Couplet (Heroic couplet also)

Dissonance

Elegy (elegiac)

End-stopped line

Enjambment

Epic

Euphony

Foot

Free verse

Iambic, trochaic, dactylic etc. (pentameter)

Imagery (visual, olfactory, tactile etc.)

In medias res

Lyric

Meter

Ode

Quatrain

Refrain

Rhyme

End

External

Feminine

Internal

Masculine

Scansion

Sestet

Sonnet

English

Italian (Petrarchan)

Stanza

Stress

Villanelle

Volta (shift)

Double Trouble for NEXT WEEK's midterm!

perfunctory
curmudgeonly
brigand
comely
swarthy
vigil
dolorous
divisive
lupine (canine. bovine, feline, equine)
Machiavellian (Machiavellian machinations!)
sangfroid
milquetoast (great word, right?)
simian
saurian
tacit
Sisyphean (ooh, GREAT word! Use it, use it! Find some excuse to crowbar it into an essay..)

Open Essay Prompts

Look at the past AP Lit open essay prompts and find one which you think would suit Jane Eyre, Earnest, and Frankenstein (one for each). Oh, and obviously tell us how and why they would work! Here are the essay prompts in case you have misplaced the handout:

http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APOpenQuestions.html

These are due on the blog by Wednesday March 10th 3:00pm

Words, art, and music!

Artists:

Kandinsky
Botticelli
Seurat

Composers:

Beethoven
Cole Porter
Gershwin

Elizabethan words:

wherefore = why
aught = anything/with a negative word=nothing
ere=before
forsooth=in truth, truly
pate=head, skull
thou, thee=you
thy/thine=yours
want(verb)=lack, be without
wont(verb)= to be accustomed to, habit (as is my wont)
wanton=carefree, incorrigible
get(verb)=to produce offspring
habit=dress, clothing
humour=disposition, mood
issue=children, descendant