“Wow, these kids are more good than I’ll ever be.”
“Why did I take AP Language in the first place?”
“I’m going to fail this class soon.”
My thought plagues with negative comments and lack of motivation when I start AP Language and Composition back in September. Coming off as a student who went through a various type of classroom settings including a specialized reading and English classes in middle school, the stakes are high. On August 23rd of 2017, I read H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man as a part of the summer assignment. The task was to identify and annotate rhetorical features. Because I had a poor background knowledge of rhetorical features, I found very few of figurative language. For example, I highlighted an entire sentence and labeled it as imagery: “He stopped this quiet man, going quietly home to his midday meal, attacked him, beat down this feeble defences, broke his arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly.” …show more content…
Recognizing rhetorical devices had improved drastically, as well as my reading skill. On January of 2018, I annotate an article, The Shopping Maul. Here, the sheet was almost littered with highlights and notes of rhetorical feature. One of several notes was “Uses of historical context (allusion) to show the insanity of sistuation [sic]” to link back to the sentence: “They and their children expect a level of obeisance that’s positively pre-revolutionary. The French Revolution, that is.” I also was able to identify the entire article as an analogy between retail jobs and battlefield. In the past, I struggled to identify what is allusion or even allegory.Referring back to the murder sentence, I can now easily identify not only imagery but I can also easily find metaphor for the victim’s head “smashed to a jelly,” and paradox because the situation went from normal to a gruesome situation
“Why did I take AP Language in the first place?”
“I’m going to fail this class soon.”
My thought plagues with negative comments and lack of motivation when I start AP Language and Composition back in September. Coming off as a student who went through a various type of classroom settings including a specialized reading and English classes in middle school, the stakes are high. On August 23rd of 2017, I read H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man as a part of the summer assignment. The task was to identify and annotate rhetorical features. Because I had a poor background knowledge of rhetorical features, I found very few of figurative language. For example, I highlighted an entire sentence and labeled it as imagery: “He stopped this quiet man, going quietly home to his midday meal, attacked him, beat down this feeble defences, broke his arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly.” …show more content…
Recognizing rhetorical devices had improved drastically, as well as my reading skill. On January of 2018, I annotate an article, The Shopping Maul. Here, the sheet was almost littered with highlights and notes of rhetorical feature. One of several notes was “Uses of historical context (allusion) to show the insanity of sistuation [sic]” to link back to the sentence: “They and their children expect a level of obeisance that’s positively pre-revolutionary. The French Revolution, that is.” I also was able to identify the entire article as an analogy between retail jobs and battlefield. In the past, I struggled to identify what is allusion or even allegory.Referring back to the murder sentence, I can now easily identify not only imagery but I can also easily find metaphor for the victim’s head “smashed to a jelly,” and paradox because the situation went from normal to a gruesome situation