Remix Vocab #9

Abortive: failing to produce the intended result

Bruit: spread a report or rumor widely

Contumelious: scornful and insulting behavior

Dictum: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source; a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle

Ensconce: establish or settle

Iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions 

In medias res: a narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning 

Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict

Maladroit: ineffective or bungling; clumsy

Maudlin: self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness 

Modulate: exert a modifying or controlling influence on

Portentous: of or like a portent; done in a pompously or overly solemn manner

Prescience: the power to foresee the future

Quid pro quo: a favor or advantage granted in return for something

Salubrious: health-giving, healthy; pleasant, not run-down

Saturnalia: the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December; an occasion of wild revelry

Touchstone: a standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized 

Traumatic: emotionally disturbing or distressing; relating to or causing psychological trauma

Vitiate: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of.

Waggish: humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner

Autopsy

 Post an autopsy on your vocab midterm to your blog.  Did you do as well as you expected/hoped?  To what do you attribute the outcome?  How can you improve for the final?

I feel that in the time I had to study I did an acquit job. I could have done better. I should have made more time for myself to study. I used different methods this time to study, instead of just using flashcard. I used the computer and a program that allowed me to use different studying tactics   I learn a lot of the words but was unable to retain all the word in my head for the test.

Remix of Hamlet Act 3

Here are three very different distinct points of view that people had on Act III scene 1, on where it may have taken place at and in different time periods. These different videos help to see different kinds of  emotion that Hamlet may have had in real life, his experience, his thought and feelings. To break down the soliloquy a little bit, Hamlet is trying to decide weather he live with what has happened or take charge and control that output of what is to come. He also talks about how his conscience takes over his actions and hold him back from what he should be doing. For he would rather bear the pains of the past then get the support of others.

Vocab #8

Abeyance-(N.) A state of temporary disuse or suspension.

Ambivalent- (Adj.) Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Beleaguer- (V.) Beset with difficulties

Carte blanche- (N.) Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.

Cataclysm- (N.) A sudden violent upheaval, esp. in a political or social context

Debauch- (V.) Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt.
(N.) A bout of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, esp. eating and drinking

éclat- (N.) brilliant or conspicuous success

Fastidious- (Adj.) Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

Gambol- (V.) Run or jump about playfully

Imbue- (V.) Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality: "imbued with deep piety".

Inchoate- (Adj.) Just begun and so not fully formed or developed

Lampoon- (V.) Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule or sarcasm.
(N.) A speech or text criticizing someone or something in this way 

Malleable- (Adj.) Easily influenced; pliable

Nemesis- (N.) The inescapable or implacable agent of someone's or something's downfall

Opt- (V.) Make a choice from a range of 
possibilities

Philistine- (N.) A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them

Picaresque- (Adj.) Of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

Queasy- (Adj.) Nauseated; feeling sick

Refractory- (Adj.) Stubborn or unmanageable

Savoir-faire- (N.) The ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations.

Reflect on Midterm

A) It was a hard test I though I was able to answer most of the questions with the right answers in the allotted time.

B) I didn't know all the words so it made it hard to make the right decision.

C) I hope all the words I studied will stick.

D) I can start studying earlier in the week.

Study Strategy

I would go through all the main topic that we discussed over the past semester. Then I would narrow down what I do know and don't know. Then take notes on the stuff I don't know or don't remember and study those notes or make flash cards for vocabulary.

Learning Communities

http://apliteratureblog-jody.blogspot.com/2012/04/hamlet.html

• This is a link to a student's synopsis of Hamlet

http://quizlet.com/subject/ap-english-literature-and-composition-hamlet-act/

• Quizlet is a website that is used to make electronic flash-cards. This particular link contains vocabulary for every scene of Hamlet.

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/hamlet/

• This link provides the entire play, quizzes, and even discussions.