Dickens Map

 1) your reading schedule to complete your reading/review of the book by Monday, February 4

Plan of attack: I have been reading up to 5-7 chapters a night. By this spead I should be a good way through the book. With that said if by sunday day I don't have it done I will catch up then and then also do my review of the book as well.

 2) five AP questions (with source URLs) that you intend to be able to answer by the time you finish

1.How does Dr. Manette react when he is asked if he wants to be ¨recalled to life¨?
http://marisolzpd13.blogspot.com/2012/02/study-questions-tale-of-two-cities-by.html

2.What is Mr. Lorry's conversation like with the specter?
http://derhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/tale-of-two-cities-questions.html

3.Dickens seems to have great sympathy for the poor, the sick and the powerless, but not all such characters are portrayed sympathetically. What does that say about his sympathies? Where does he intend our sympathies as readers to lie?
 http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-by-Charles-Dickens-Reading-Questions-Oprahs-Book-Club#ixzz2JJUaBx3r

4.One of the novel’s most important motifs is the figure of the double. What is the effect of Dickens’s doubling technique? Does he use doubles to draw contrasts, comparisons, or both?
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/twocities/study.html

5.Are the characters consistent in their actions? Which of the characters are fully developed? How? Why?
http://classiclit.about.com/od/taleoftwocities/a/aa_tale2citques.htm

3) how you think you should be tested on these ideas, and/or how you intend to demonstrate your expertise on your blog.

My plan is to not only put my notes of the book on the blog but to also create some type of review of the book to show that I know and fully understand the concepts of this novel. Also to answer all these questions and to maybe answer more questions I find.

Lit Terms 31-56

Dialect: the language of a particular district, class, or group of persons; the sounds , grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.
An example of Southern American dialect, from Uncle Remus: Br'er Fox, he lay low= Brother Fox is hiding.

Dialectic: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.


Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.

Example: pride vs. humility
              sacrifice vs. selfishness


Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.


Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.


"Four-score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln

Dogmatic: rigid beliefs and principles.

Dogmatic that the universe is meaningless, especially when so few people around you really believe it.

Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.

"Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer"-"Lycidas" by John Milton

Epic: a long narrative poem unified be a hero who reflects the customs, morals, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution).

An example would be The Iliad or The Odyssey by Homer.

Epigram: witty aphorism.


Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.

"Gone, but not forgotten"

Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that may insult someone's character, characteristics.


"The Prince of Peace" is an epithet for Jesus Christ.
"The Queen of Soul" is an epithet for Aretha Franklin.
"The King of Pop" is an epithet for Michael Jackson.



Euphemism: the use of indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one though to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.


Passed away instead of died
Correctional facility instead of jail
Departed instead of died
Differently-abled instead of handicapped or disabled


Evocative (evocation): a calling forth of memories and sensation; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.

Geoff brown was showing his three books, which are wonderfully evocative of life in the last century.

Exposition: the beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas and/or characters, in a detailed explanation.



Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic representation of an inner idea or feeling.


Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.


Fallacy: a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.


RED HERRING: attempting to hide a weakness in an argument by drawing attention away from the real issue. A red herring fallacy is thus a diversionary tactic or an attempt to confuse or fog the issue being debated. The name of the fallacy comes from the days of fox hunting, when a herring was dragged across the trail of a fox in order to throw the dogs off the scent.

example: accused by his wife of cheating at cards, Ned replies "Nothing I do ever pleases you. I spent all last week repainting the bathroom, and then you said you didn't like the color."


Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the falling action is when Harry talks to Dumbledore in the infirmary, the banquet, and the train ride home

Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest" is a good example of farce in which the characters are stereotypical English upper-class through which Wilde made fun of the elite.

Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech.


busy as a bee
clean as a whistle
brave as a lion
stand out like a sore thumb
as easy as shooting fish in a barrel


Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

Effective black and white flashbacks show the missing person's life before the disappearance.

Foil: a person that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

Good examples are Watson (from Sherlock Holmes) or Ron & Hermoine (from Harry Potter).

Folk Tale: a story passed on by word of mouth.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; "planning" to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

He didn't know what was in store for him she will soon find out the truth. He felt a cold chill as he walked through the dark alley ( foreshadowing something bad will happen).

Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

Tech. Forward

Even cats can get swamped in all the work to get done. At least she has the right attitude about it all... Just tuckered out.

1-30 Lit Terms

Abstract- refers to language that describes concepts rather than concrete images.

Ad Hominem- In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man."

Allegory- a work that functions on a symbolic level.

Alliteration - the repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Allusion- a reference contained in a work.

Ambiguity- the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.

Amplification- involves repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it, in order to emphasize what otherwise might be passed over.

Analogy- a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation also applies to the original circumstance. In other words, it is the comparison between two different items.

Anaphora- the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

Anastrophe- transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and the words they control. (a form of hyperbaton)

Anecdote- a story or brief episode told by the writer or a character to illustrate to a point.

Antanagoge- placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point.

Antimetabole- reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast.

Antiphrasis- one word irony, established by context.

Antistrophe- repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

Antithesis- the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. "To be or not to be..." "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country..."

Aphorism- a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author's point.

Apophasis- (also called praeteritio or occupatio) asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it.

Aporia- expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.

Aposiopesis- a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty.

Apostrophe- a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee."

Appositive- a noun or noun substitute placed next to (in apposition to) another noun to be described or defined by the appositive.

Archaism- use of an older or obsolete form.

Argument- a single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer

Assonance- repetition of the same sound in words close together.

Asyndeton- lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.

Atmosphere- the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as a description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere. Frequently, atmosphere foreshadows events.

Attitude- the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience.

Brachylogy- a general term for abbreviated or condensed expression, of which asyndeton and zeugma are types.

Cacophony harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage in a literary work.

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

I am always looking to improve on my leadership skills, so since I've started a new job and working with new people I really want to focus on being a positive leader that is the kind of leader people want to follow. I over all want to be thought of a nice fun person with a good work ethic. Tonged there I just need to put my best foot forward, work as hard as possible, and be that all around friendly person that I am. I want to work on being positive all the time and have a game face on when in dire situations.

The other thing I would like to do this semester is plan events, I want to prepare myself for college and the real world and make connections with new networks that can help me out later in life. I have a lot of drive and think that should help me. I want these soon to be colleagues  to see all that I am worth and I would like to earn their respect.

AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

1.Discuss this quote: “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must

possess it. Everything else was seeking—a detour, error.”

http://mrsvernonsapclass.blogspot.com/2011/09/siddhartha.html?m=1

2.How does his father show both patience and wisdom in dealing with his son?

http://www.studymode.com/essays/Siddhartha-Reading-Questions-641015.html

3. In your own words, identify symbolism involving the caged bird, the river, the ferryman, and the smiling face. Dedicate no more than two pages (one side is one page) to this.

 http://www.hawthorne.k12.nj.us/attachments/140_2012%20AP%20and%20English%20IV%20Honors%20Summer%20Assignments.pdf

4. What are Qualities Young Siddhartha and Siddhartha share? 
http://ahirzel.weebly.com/4/post/2012/10/siddhartha-socratic-seminar-ch-11-12.html

5.How does Hesse use figurative, poetic, structural, and rhetorical devices to convey the effects of Siddhartha's experiences?

http://jneff.wikispaces.com/Siddhartha