JenniferPrex

There are jobs that do not require you to dress in tweed, drink chamomile tea, read Proust, and own a cat.

Lemire (skim Ch 2-7) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

The production week starts out steady and relatively slow, then things get incrementally crazier toward deadline, and the night before the issue is sent to the printer--in production argot, "put to bed"--people work into the wee hours of the morning.

Lemire (skim Ch 2-7) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

The repitition of the short i sound in "still unravished" emphasizes the meaning of those words and suggests the speaker's first impression of wonder at the ancient urn's pristine state, while the long i that predominates suggests the serenity and self-possession that it exudes.

Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (198-225) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"drill a bicuspid" and "still maladjusted" (from a song in Little Shop of Horrors)

Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

THE WORLD is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Poetry Selections -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

Portfolio 1 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

This is my first blog entry portfolio. Through doing this assignment, I've begun to realize how much I've changed since the beginning of the semester (at least in terms of the blogging, that is). When I looked back at my earlier entries, I realized that I tried much too hard to create interesting titles. Now I'll be the first to admit that some of my titles are boring, but as I stopped focusing so much on trying to make them interesting, they started to get better. Though I'm sure I've probably changed in other areas as well, this was the area that was the most noticeable.

Make lists. Sketch out the characters, plot, emotional tone, and so forth -- without slowing down to organize your ideas into sentences and paragraphs.

Figures of thought, or tropes (from the Greek word meaning "a turn") are words or phrases used in ways that effect an obvious change (or "turn") in their standard meaning.

The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued: after fifty below, a man should travel with a partner.

"Mr. Paradise's head appeared from time to time on the surface of the water. Finally, far downstream, the old man rose like some ancient water monster and stood empty-handed, staring with his dull eyes as far down the river line as he could see."

Intentional--as opposed to careless or inadvertent--repetition of sounds, words, phrasing, or concepts is used in literary works to create unity and emphasis.

Everyman: O Death thou comest when I had thee least in mind;

...Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is an allegory in which a young Puritan ignores the warning of his wife, who is named Faith, and ventures into a dark forest, where the first person he meets is a mysterious "traveler" who carries a staff "which bore the likeness of a great black snake."

Narration refers to the act of telling a story, whether in prose or in verse, and the means by which that telling is accomplished.

'Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine?'

One major distinction is between the novel of incident, in which the main focus is on the course and outcome of events in the PLOT, and the novel of character, in which the primary interest is in the PROTAGONIST'S thoughts, feelings, and motives and in the ways that the characters develop.