Blog Post 14

Final Three Paragraph Reflection:

This semester, I have learned so much from literary terms to poetry formations.  It has truly been a pleasure, and I cannot wait to dive deeper into learning next semester!  When it comes to my Kentucky Derby hat, I am proud to say that I accomplished a lot of it.  One goal of mine was to learn all of the poetry formations, what they are called, how to write them, and how many syllables go into each line.  It was difficult at first to be able to write each poem with the exact amount of syllables that it was supposed to have, but I figured it out eventually and was able to do it precisely in our group poem, "Ode to Winter."

Another goal of mine was to learn at least 15 literary elements that I did not know before.  This was hard because AP Language and Composition taught me so many, but I managed to learn 10 new ones.  Two of my favorites were Litotes, which is a word that implies an understatement or a double negative, and Metonymy which is a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a different thing that it is closely associated to.  It's been very interesting adding new words to my vocabulary personally, but also extremely helpful in my writing of essays and in analyzing literary works.  My thesis statements have become undoubtedly better.

Furthermore, my idea of concrete nouns has changed completely.  Before this course, nouns were- just nouns.  But after diving into concepts of how nothing is truly "good" nor truly "bad" has made me think of nouns in an entirely different way.  Even nouns that are concrete can be put in an abstract way, such as male and female.  Many males have female aspects and many females have masculine attributes.  This realization has widened the horoscope of complexity for me and made me realize that in literary works and writing you can question, challenge, persuade, or interpret anything the way you want to.  There are no limits.  I've learned so much over the semester and I can't wait to discover more mind-blowing ideas about literature in the months to come.