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Welcome to your 2009-2010 AP Literature blog! Use this space to discuss ideas and literature, help one another with assignments and questions, or to ask Mrs. Moon questions.
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Remember you must follow all of Laney's rules on this blog.
You must remain professional at all times--no rude comments, hateful attitudes, or inappropriate material!
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- NCSTATE!!!!!!
- MRsssssssssssssssssssss MOOONnononoonnnn
- spring break assignment
- SPRING BREAK!!!!!!
- Go...
- thissss is the wayy I live
- GRRR!
- Funni Video
- Nesselroade
- due dates!
- Party?
- Funny-ness
- Beloved Time Line
- MYTHOLOGICAL ALEWZIONS
- Evil Babies
- Beloved study guide.
- NEW MOON
- MEL IS SO ANGRY AND HOLDING AN INVISDABLE GUN! AHH...
- I'm sick :(
- Reminder
- Our picture!
- On "Beloved"....
- Oh yeah...
- a more creative option...
- Tomorrow and other things of interest
- the newst addition to our class
- In responce to Madison's "Nastradamus
- AILEWZION VOEKABLURARY
- Beloved and other things.....
- when baby suggs was talking to Paul D
- NYC!!!!
- Tomorrow & stuff
- Yay Andrew!
- Allusion Vocabulary
- Don't forget
- ALICEPEOPLEYUMMY
- Be a tourist
- Alice in Wonderland
- i like seinfeld
- Good job!
- Jam and other ramblings
- Jabberwocky homework
- TERRIFYING JABBAWOCKY!!!
- JABBERWOCKY
- Read this!
- So, for tomorrow...
- Literary Allusion Definitions
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12 comments:
Galahad:
Origin: Son of Sir Launcelot and
Elaine, one of the Knights of
the Round Table.
Meaning: Super Pure, just, manly
Jekyll & Hyde:
Origin: A novella written by Robert
Louis Stevenson and first
published in 1886
Meaning: someone with two personalities
- one good and one evil
Uncle Tom:
Origin: An anti-slavery novel written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe in the
civil war era, depicting the
horrors of slavery and the live
of a nice loyal slave
Meaning: an insult given (mainly by
black people) to black people
who are judged (correctly or
incorrectly) to have 'sold out'
and compromised their identity
to fit in to white society.
Don Juan
ORIGIN: Don Juan is a character in a play by Tirso de Molia; the character kills the father of a woman he seduces.
DEFINITION: is a womanizer, seducer, a person who is (or thinks he is) irresistible to women
Falstaffian
ORIGIN: character in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor; Sir John Falstaff.
DEFINITION: to be characterized by joviality and conviviality.
Svengali
ORIGIN: character in the novel Trilby in which a tone-deaf artist's model (subject of paintings) becomes a singing sensation while under a spell placed on her by Svengali.
DEFINITION: a person who, with evil intent, tries to get another to do what is desired of them.
FrankensteinFRANKENSTEINFrankensteinFRANKENST
ORIGIN- A dark romantic novel by Percy Shelly about a scientist who creates a human monster
DEFINITION- a conglomeration of things (such as the creature was); a person who experiments with moral boundaries
FridayFRIDAYFridayFRIDAYFridayFRIDAYFriday
ORIGIN- Man Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
DEFINITION- an expression used to describe a male personal assistant or servant, especially one who is particularly competent or loyal.
TartuffleTARTUFFETartuffeTARTUFFETartuffe
ORIGIN- a comedy by Molière; his most famous play.
DEFINITION- a hypocritical liar who uses his power to gain control of others, and take for himself
Allusion: Quixotic
Origin: Comes from the novel Don Quixote
Definition: Unpredictable, impulsive
Allusion: Scrooge
Origin: A character in Charles Dickens A Chirstmas Carol
Definition: A person unwilling to sell or give
I'm having a really hard time with this one. I'll put what I can find, but ya'll probably shouldn't write this.
Allusion: Yahoo
Origin:one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
Definition:a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
...Is that right Mrs. Moon?
Babbitt: Sinclair Lewis's "Babbitt"( where is the italics or underlining on Blog posts?????????)))) . George F. Babbitt was the main character : means a self satisfied person concerned with business and middle class ideas like success.
Brobdingnagian: character Gulliverin in "Gullivars Travel" by Jonathan Swift: means gigantic, enormous, on a large scale
Simon Legree: From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Simon Legree was a brutal slave owner. means: harsh, cruel, or demanding. A person with authority.
Lilliputian: a very small person or being. (very funny mrs. Moon!! :))
origin: A fictional islad in Gulliver's Travels by Swift inhabited with tiny people 6 inch. high.
Lothario: A man who seduces women
Origin: Lothario tests his friends wife of her virtue and ends up falling in love with her in the novel Don Quixote
Brittany--you are right! We'll talk more about it tomorrow--but you got the novel and the definition right!
Sarah--I thought you'd like that one! :)
Malapropism: Mrs. Malaprop, a character in an eighteenth-century British comedy, The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, constantly confuses words. Malapropisms are named after her.
1.Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
Pickwickian: After Mr. Pickwick, central character in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens.]
1.Simple and kind
Uriah Heep: the hypocritical and villainous clerk in Dickens' David Copperfield
Here is a funny cartoon of Malaprop Man:
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=24502
There's more, too!
1. Pollyanna : an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
Origin:
from the name of the child heroine created by Eleanor Porter (1868–1920), American writer
2. Pooh-Bah : A pompous ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them; or a person who holds high office.
Origin: Character bearing the title Lord-High-Everything-Else in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885).
3. Walter Mitty: An ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs.
Origin: Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty",
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