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Exposition: The story sets up the action with an article in the newspaper about Sonny's being arrest for using and selling heroin.
Inciting incident: First argument about Sonny wanting to become a jazz musician.
Conflict This is happen before the initial situation, but read it after it. Sonny wants to become a jazz musician (piano player) and the narrator thinks that is a waste of time.
Conclusion: The narrator sends Sonny a drink
Suspense The moment just before Sonny starts to play the piano. Sonny makes it through the first set and starts playing the second.
Good people by David Foster Wallace • Setting: First, they are sitting in a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank. Character Lance Lane A. Dean Jr
Sheri Fisher:
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He is 19 years old and studying business and accounting.
He was desperate to be a good person.
He is very reflexive about how he is and how he like to be. He has high expectations of himself. He was not sure about his faith and the love he had for his girlfriend.
She is 20 years old and study to become a nurse. He has a hosting job.
She is more comfortable and secure than Lane. She is more mature.
She is very serious In her faith.
The birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne •
Symbolism: Georgiana’s birthmark symbolizes mortality. “The crimson hand expressed the ineludible
gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mold, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. In this manner, selecting it as the symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death.·
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Irony: The desire of making his wife perfect by using science to remove the birthmark, science ends
up killing her. •
Simil: A beautiful skin is as a face without marks.
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Imagery: Detailed description of the birthmark and the perfect skin.
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Foreshadowing: Aylmer’s experiments go wrong, he has dreams of cutting off the birthmark (cutting
his short life).
In this entry, I decided to explain more about poetry, concepts and subgenres. Then , I chose a poem from the chapter and I will explain it according to the chapter “responding” Descriptive lyrics: It reflects o n the speaker’s point of view. It invites us to focus on the descriptive, instead of the subjective par of the poem.
Lyric poetry: It is defined a s myriad ways. Designated a short poem chanted or su ng by a single singer to be accompaniment of a stringe d instrument called a lyre. Narrative poetry: It has a plot related with a narrator. Narrative poem encourages us to ask the same question s about character, plot, narration, and so on. Dramatic mologue: Subgenre between lyric and dramatic poetry. It focus on characterization
Dramatic poetry: It means play in verse. Any poem with wholly of dialogues among characters, unmediated by a narrator count as dramatic poetry.
Read the poem Expectations: According to the tile I expected a romantic triangle between two men and woman. Read the syntax literally: a) Sentences b) Reorder sentences c) Replace nouns d) Translate sentences e) Note any ambiguities Consult references works: I used the Cambridg e dictionary in order to help myself to understand I a little but better. Ask: -Who's I the poem speaker? -Where is locate it? -How she fall in love?
Speaker: The speaker is divided into three people: I, Me / myself, and the soul. The "I' politics, fashion, and what he's going to eat The "Me Myself" observes the world with an amused smile The "Soul" represents his deepest and most universal essence. Situation: The speaker is expressing his believes and what he is against to. Meaning: He explain the world and how much he loves it. He speaks about how people to learn by experiences. Setting: It’s hard to tell. I would love to think that he is in a green field, thinking about this.
Theme: The subject of the poem is love, but is more addressing to sex. It recall sex as the physical appearance. It is a reflection on the previous night’s sex. The speaker is talking to their lover. It is a little bit of contrast ideas, it is speaking about love but it recalls sex as an action without emotion and how was she afraid of it. For me, she is peaking about the very first experience in sex, and she describes it as the way of how she and her lover died together. The poem show how you can have sex without true feelings at all, just doing it for the sexual pleasure and not for tomorrow. Tone: Thanks to the word choice, the tone of the poem contributes to the theme. It is easy to understand her struggling. Thanks to som e line breaks, readers can have a brief pause in order to understan d and read better. The repetition of the words was important.
Metaphor: The main figure of speech in this poem is the metaphor. The controlling metaphor is the God is our shepherd and we are the sheep. It compares God with a Shepherd because he will guide us, he will take care of us. The metaphor is seen at the very first beginning of the poem, then, it continues in the other lines. Also, Good is seen as a host, which need to provide to their guests. Symbol: God is a shepherd and he will guide his sheep. Lord's protection is generosity, hospitality, and we are allowed to live in the Lord's house. The house itself is metaphorical.
Rhythm: It uses iambic pentameter. This term is definitely a mouthful, but it's not so hard once we break it down. Let's start with the word pentameter. The -meter part is easy: that just means some way of dividing up the words in the poetic line. Example: Each changing place with that which goes before. (3) Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,