0408-Week7
- Quote Explanation
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." --The Great Gatsby - point of view (POV)
Narration is the use of—or the particularly chosen methodology or process (also called the narrative mode) of using—a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story, including:
1. Narrative point of view: the perspective (or type of personal or non-personal "lens") through which a story is communicated
2. Narrative voice: the format (or type of presentational form) through which a story is communicated
3. Narrative time: the placement of the story's time-frame in the past, the present, or the future
Narrative point of view or narrative perspective describes the position of the narrator (the character of the storyteller) in relation to the story being told. For example, in "The Great Gatsby", the writer characterizing Nick Carraway as the first-person narrator, involving in the novel as a character who helps the reader to understand the personal points of view of the writer himself. - Hyperbole
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally. Hyperboles are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect. As a literary device, hyperbole is often used in poetry, and is frequently encountered in casual speech. Many times the usages of hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is.
- Spring break
Spring break is a vacational period in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere. It is also known by names such as Easter vacation, Easter Holiday, March break, spring vacation, Mid-Term Break, study week, reading week, reading period, or Easter week, depending on regional conventions. - Passover
Passover or Pesach is an important, biblically derived Jewish festival. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. - Calvary
Calvary, also Golgotha, was, according to the Gospels, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified.
Syllable
- hemi-→half
- -sphere→ball, sphere
(1) hemisphere (n.)
Meaning: a half of a sphere. - peri-→around
(1) periscope (n.)
Meaning: an apparatus consisting of a tube attached to a set of mirrors or prisms, by which an observer (typically in a submerged submarine or behind a high obstacle) can see things that are otherwise out of sight.
Example: The commander has seven optical periscopes which provide 360° observation and a dedicated sight for weapon aiming.
(2) perimeter (n.)
Meaning: the continuous line forming the boundary of a closed geometric figure.
(3) peripheral
Meaning1: (adj.) of, relating to, or situated on the edge or periphery of something.
Meaning2: (n.) a peripheral device. - scope→see, watch
(1) telescope (n.) - tele-→distance, far, from afar
(1) television (n.)
(2) telephone (n.)
(3) telecast
Meaning1: (n.) a television broadcast.
Meaning2: (v.) transmit by television. - cast→throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction.
(1) broadcast
(2) castaway (n.)
Meaning: a person who has been shipwrecked and stranded in an isolated place. - bi-→two
(1) binoculars (n.) - dia-→through, across, between
(1) diameter (n.)
Meaning: a straight line passing from side to side through the center of a body or figure, especially a circle or sphere.
(2) diagonal
Meaning1: (adj.) (of a straight line) joining two opposite corners of a square, rectangle, or other straight-sided shape.
Meaning2: (n.) a straight line joining two opposite corners of a square, rectangle, or other straight-sided shape. - re-→back, again
(1) resurrection (n.)
Meaning: the action or fact of resurrecting or being resurrected. - equ-→equal
(1) equal (adj.)(n.)(v.)
(2) equity (n.)
Meaning1: the quality of being fair and impartial.
Meaning2: the value of the shares issued by a company.
(3) equinox (n.) - puberty (n.)
Meaning: the period during which adolescents reach sexual maturity and become capable of reproduction. - apron (n.)
Meaning: a protective or decorative garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back.