In Your Own Words

1. In Your Own Words ENG II VOCABULARY

2. ABSTRACT • Unreal, can’t be seen • Not real • Can not be touched because it is not real FREEDOM is an abstract concept. Is it not real? NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! Difficult to understand Hard to understand Something that can’t be identified with the five senses

3. ABSTRACT • The artwork was abstract. How? • Her abstract feelings were very strong about him. How does this tell me what abstract means? • He painted an abstract painting. What makes the painting abstract? POOR SENTENCES

4. ABSTRACT • That idea was very abstract; I couldn’t identify it with any of my senses. • That picture is very abstract because you cannot clearly see what it is. • The painting was abstract because it was hard to understand. • When I was looking at something abstract, I couldn’t figure it out. GOOD SENTENCES

5. AESTHETIC • A creative or artistic piece • Beauty of things (relating to the) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! Something relating to beauty Nice in appearance Something with a nice appearance Something pleasing in appearance

6. AESTHETIC • The painting of Venus was aesthetic. How? In what way? • The dance was aesthetic and graceful. I’m still not sure what aesthetic means here. The context clue is graceful. Good, but not enough. • The drawing is very aesthetic, I think I will buy it and hang it up in my house. If I didn’t know the meaning of the word, I might think it means interesting or odd of other things? The meaning needs to be clearer. POOR SENTENCES

7. AESTHETIC • The painting was very beautiful, so the tour guide described its aesthetic qualities. • The drawing is very aesthetic, I think I will buy it and hang it up in my house so that everyone can appreciate its beauty. • I think of aesthetic when I think of brown eyes, because I think brown eyes are beautiful. GOOD SENTENCES

8. ALLITERATION • Use of the same consonant vowel. (Any vowel? Anywhere?) • The repetition of a letter (what kind of letter? See above.) • The use of the same consonant or vowel (Where?) • The repetition of first letter of words (What if the letters make different sounds?) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! The repetition of the same beginning sound in multiple words of a text Repetition of the first sounds of words in writing or speech

9. ALLITERATION • Alliteration are in Winnie the Pooh. How? In what way? • The story was filled with alliteration. Because . . . • The poet used alliteration to stress a line in his poem. By doing what? POOR SENTENCES

10. ALLITERATION • Mama made me mash my m&ms is an example of alliteration because the beginning sound is being stressed. • Many of the words in my poem started with the same sound, so I told my teacher I was using alliteration. • Many literary pieces include alliterations which are easy to find because the beginning sounds of words often have the same letter. GOOD SENTENCES

11. ALLEGORY • Fable or moral reading (Is it always a reading? Can a song or painting be an allegory?) • A part of literature use to demonstrate deeper meanings.(What is a part of literature?) • Story told by writer. (Many stories are told by writers but not many are allegories.) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! A poem, play, or other work of art that has a deeper meaning throughout Play, picture, poem, etc. in which characters, events and objects all symbolize some kind of moral

12. ALLEGORY • I wrote an allegory. How? In what way? • My allegory was about the Greeks ‘ Mount Olympus. Because . . . • Hamlet is an allegory. In what way? POOR SENTENCES

13. ALLEGORY • Peter Pan is an allegory because it teaches a moral.. • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” has a deeper meaning and therefore is an allegory. • The excerpt used an allegory to show a deeper meaning that what the book literally said • It is very hard to write an allegory and include a deeper meaning in a poem. GOOD SENTENCES

14. ALLUSION • An indirect reference to an event. (Just an event?) • An indirect reference to something.(Like what?) • A reference to another thing in a book. (It can also be in music, a poem, a tv show or movie, someone’s speech or conversation.) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! Recalling another time in history, a story, or a famous person Refers to a work, a time in history, or a famous person

15. ALLUSION • Disney Channel shows often have allusions in them. Such as? • We’ve read many allusions in this class. Like what? • When you watch a movie you can see a lot of allusions in it. Explain. • In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, there is a reference to another book. (which is an allusion.) POOR SENTENCES

16. ALLUSION • That books was just a big allusion, because they were referring to the Bible the whole time. • The piece we read the other day had an allusion it; it referred to the Brown’s Decision. GOOD SENTENCES

17. ANNOTATION • A body of notes added to a passage (What kind of notes? They must be EXPLANATORY.) • Analyzing a work (so, I can talk to you and analyze a work . I can write an essay and analyze a work. What makes the analysis an annotation?) • Being able to tell and explain what something is. (I can tell and explain what a hamburger is, but is that an annotation?) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! Notes explaining your thoughts and analysis added to a text Explanatory note or body of notes added to a text When you write on a text and analyze it

18. ANNOTATION • When you go back and add a sentence to a passage it is an annotation. If you wrote the passage this would be considered revision. Specify the kind of passage you are adding the sentence to. What kind of sentence? • The annotation was very creative. OK, so was the poem. What makes this creativity an annotation? • I had to make annotations in Ms. Hedrick’s class. (by making notes explaining my understandings and thoughts on the text we were reading.) • I have analyzed this paragraph. (ALWAYS put the word in the sentence. How could we make this sentence work?) POOR SENTENCES

19. ANNOTATION • When you go back and add a sentence to a passage it is an annotation. If you wrote the passage this would be considered revision. Specify the kind of passage you are adding the sentence to. What kind of sentence? • The annotation was very creative. OK, so was the poem. What makes this creativity an annotation? • I had to make annotations in Ms. Hedrick’s class. (by making notes explaining my understandings and thoughts on the text we were reading.) • I have analyzed this paragraph. (ALWAYS put the word in the sentence. How could we make this sentence work?) POOR SENTENCES

20. ARCHETYPE – YOU’VE GOT TO INCLUDE “THAT SEEMS TO REPRESENT COMMON PATTERNS IN LIFE” • An original model in which later copies are made (good. But it literature it has to include the above) • A pattern that occurs over and over again (Where? Or How?) • A model. (Is Heidi Klum an archetype?) NEEDS WORK GREAT!!! A pattern you see over again in a book, movie, etc. A recurring pattern in stories that reflect life

21. ARCHETYPE • The archetype was full of great ideas. But what makes it an archetype? • The annotation was very creative. OK, so was the poem. What makes this creativity an annotation? • I had to make annotations in Ms. Hedrick’s class. (by making notes explaining my understandings and thoughts on the text we were reading.) • I have analyzed this paragraph. (ALWAYS put the word in the sentence. How could we make this sentence work?) POOR SENTENCES

22. ARCHETYPE • Batman is an example of an archetype because they came out with a movie and are still making different movies about him. • An example of an archetype is in movies the witch is always evil. • The annotation I wrote in the margin summarized the paragraph. • While I was annotating the story, I found something that really surprised me, so I put an exclamation point by it. • The teacher made annotations on the student’s essay to help him revise it. GOOD SENTENCES