Spring Break- Extra Credit!

Okay, guys. I couldn't make up my mind. Some of you have really interesting, creative ideas. Some of you were happy with a plain-Jane essay assignment. Here's what I'm proposing: make your own assignment.  The task should be connected directly to Beloved to an obvious degree. Other than that, you can decide how creative, artsy fartsy (or NOT), and involved you want this assignment to be. Here are the requirements:

- Turn in something that indicates you have thought deeply about some aspect of the novel.
- The something should be of a high school quality... so no. A stick figure drawing of all the characters-- not going to get you anything.
- You must write a Justification; in this you will explain what you did, why you did it, what kind of credit you should receive, and why.

This assignment is due April 14th; late assignments will NOT be accepted. At all. Don't even try. =)

Literary Devices- Beloved

Quiz over Literary Devices: 3/21 or 3/22. 

1. Elegy- a poem or literary work that laments the dead or a loss.
2. Parallelism- the repeated use of the same grammatical structure in a sentence or a series of sentences. Example: "For one lost, all lost" (p. 130, Beloved).
3. Anaphora- the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a rhetorical and/or sound effect. Example "It went on that way and might have stayed that way but one evening..." (p. 135-137, Beloved). 
4. Euphemism- substitution of a harsh or offensive word with something less malicious.
5. Dialect- a particular kind of language particular to a group or region of people.

6. Allegory- a work that functions on a symbolic level. A work can be described as an "allegory of love" or other abstract concepts.
7. Personification- the attribution of human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.
8. Catharsis- an emotional cleansing or feeling of relief produced through literature. In his Poetics, Aristotle wrote that tragedy especially should "arose pity and fear in such a way as to accomplish a catharsis of such emotions in the audience."
9. Pathos- the quality of a literary work or passage which appeals to the reader's emotions, especially pity, compassion, and sympathy.
10. Point of View- perspective of the speaker or narrator in a literary work.

• First person: the story is told by the character her/himself
• Third person limited: the story is told by a narrator who sees from one character's perspective
• Third person omniscient: the story is told by an all-knowing narrator