English 2: Common Core Essay (& Vocabulary)

In-class essay tied to Task 2 or Task 3 in the Common Core booklet

For February 16 Quiz:

• Allusion: a historical or cultural reference to something outside the piece of literature (figurative language/literary device)
• Analogy: a comparison of two things (figurative language/literary device)
• Archetypes: (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.
• Anti-hero: Never overcomes inner demons and is, instead, destroyed by them; can be an outlaw or villain to society, but is sympathetic to the audience; cynical or wounded (type of archetype)
• Breath: the center of being alive; its rhythm indicates mood
• Cannon of Literature: a list of works, compiled by experts that represent an author, time period, or society
• Characterization: creating and establishing specific individuals (characters) in a story, poem, or film (literary device)
• Comedy: meant to amuse; all problems work out perfectly in the end
• Connotation: secondary or associated meanings for a word (connected to denotation)