Announcements

• Classroom change :  N705. This will be PERMANENT 
• Blogging Workshop Thursday
• Quiz on Elements of Fiction Thursday 9/7
• Bring in stories for class Thursday (reread and annotate)

Definitions 

• Genre: A type of literature
• Character: The people who have a part in the story
• Agency: To do things on your own
• Narrator: Story teller who may or may not be apart of the story
• Point of View (P.O.V): How the story is told
• Omniscient: Knowing things that happen outside the story (Omi =all) (Scient= knowledge)
  • First person is associated with pronoun I or We
  • Second person is associated with the pronoun You
  • Third person is associated with the pronoun He, She, It
• Limited: Knowing only what one person knows
• Voice: The persona of the text
• Tone: How the narrator feels about the story
• Juxtaposition: Placing two things side by side
• Forestall: To prevent something from happening
• Hastened: To move quickly
• Personification: Giving human characteristics to something not living
• Simile: Two things being compared using the words ‘like or as’
• Metaphor:  Two things being compared WITHOUT using the words like or as

Story of An Hour

Characters:

• Protagonist : Mrs. Mallard
• Richard : Mrs. Mallard husband friend
• Brently Mallard : deceased husband
• Josephine : Mrs. Mallard sister

¶2 “It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.” -Shows that her sister was beating around the bush , trying not to hurt her.

¶3 “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arm. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away too her room alone…” – In this paragraph we find out how she reacts to hearing the news of her husband passing away

• “Storm of grief” is a metaphor which her grieving is being compared to being a storm without using the words like or as.
• “Wild abandonment” brings out how deeply the news of her husband affected her

¶4″…facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” – In this paragraph this is where the tone of the text changes from sad to slightly freedom.

• “A comfortable, roomy armchair”, armchairs are only for one person, how can it be roomy? Maybe foreshadowing?
• Imagery is presented a lot in this paragraph, “..the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair”.