literature note: 文學作品導讀 week 10

· initial: get starting

initiate (v.)

· initiation-

Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. Examples of initiation ceremonies might include

Christian baptism or confirmation , acceptance into a fraternal

organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from

school or recruit training.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation

· confirmation-a rite in several Christian churches that confirms a baptized person in his or her faith and admits him or her to full participation

in the church.

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commence (v.) begin

For example: commencement ceremony

hood (n.)

For example: hooding ceremony

The little red riding hood

· How to write definition

· audi- listen

For example:
audible

audition
auditorium

con- together

For example:
consensus

consensus sex

congregation

Canon: the range of works that a consensus of scholars, teachers,

and readers of a particular time and culture consider "great" or "major."

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Imaginative, create, artistic

Sharpening your skills at these peculiarly intensive and responsive sorts of reading and interpretation is a primary purpose of this book and of most literature courses.

A major aim of this book is to make you more conscious of how and what end you might use the tools you already posses and to add many new ones to your tool belt.

Sensual quality- the way the words look, sound, and even feel

u How to catch main ideas:

1. – (dash), quotation, bold face is important

2. first /last paragraph

3. 五段論證法

u Movie: The Blind Side

Michael Oher: Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage it's tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor.