In Class Essay #1

Thank you for your presence in class today.  It truly is a pleasure to see those of you who not only show up but SHOW UP.  Much respect to period 1 in particular - the "singers" who volunteered were incredible.  I appreciate you and your wholeheartedness. And thank you to the humans who upgraded their airline seats to first class.  The view is much better up here...

Speaking of respect, kudos to some ladies in period 4 who requested the Jonas Brothers song that made people so happy.  Excellent song choice before having to sit and write.

Those essays you churned out will be peer reviewed tomorrow.  If you were absent then you'll have to play catch up.

Don't forget our new SAS format for Friday and Create Something 2.0 sign ups were posted at lunch today.  All of you need to have your work on Monday, April 1st regardless if you're presenting. Also, out of respect for you and your time, below you will find Literary Terms for AP Language.  You will be quizzed on them.  The first quiz will be on Monday, April 22nd. (See what I did there?)

Don't let the volume of the list freak you out, just read it.  You already know most of them.  BREATHE.  And all I will ask is that you define the terms and offer examples.  No tricks.  This should help boost your grade. 

1.  rhetorical question - a question asked in order to have a dramatic effect; EX: You really expect me to study all these words?

HERE YA GO:

allegory, alliteration, allusion, anaphora, antithesis, aphorism, appeals to authority/emotion/logic, apostrophe, assonance, asyndeton, attitude, begging the question, canon, chiasmus, colloquial, conceit, concession, connotation, consonance, critique, deductive reasoning, denotation, dialect, diction, didactic, elegy, epistrophe, epitaph, ethos, eulogy, euphemism, exposition, extended metaphor, fallacy, figurative language, flashback, genre, homily, hyperbole, imagery, inductive reasoning, inference, irony, jargon, juxtaposition, litote, logos, loose sentence, metaphor, metonymy, mood, narrative, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, parallel structure, pathos, periodic sentence, personification, point of view, prose, realism, rebuttal, rhetoric, rhetorical question, sarcasm, satire, simile, symbolism, synecdoche, syntax, theme, tone, voice

Love and Light,
Beltran

Today's Song: "Year 3000" by the Jonas Brothers