Jennifer+Yang's+Vocab+List

Simulacrum: (n.) a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance Do you think our world is a simulacrum of the Disney Land?

Apocryphal: (adj.) of doubtful authorship or authenticity. The apocryphal songs being 9downloaded off the internet every day by millions of people has led to lower sales of CDs in the entertainment business.

Venal: (adj.) willing to sell one's influence, esp. in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary Politicians have venal intentions.

Canonical: (adj.) (of a form or pattern) characteristic, general or basic

Gambit: (n.) any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.

Inveterate: (adj.) having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change I wish I was an inveterate reader.

Pinguid: (adj.) fat; oily. It is insulting when you say your friend is pinguid.

Teleological: (n.) moving forward in a purposeful manner to a known end.

Sophism: (n.) a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone. / any false argument; fallacy. The Boston, a common public area in downtown, is the main setting for the short story "The Patriot", which is about a man who argues to such an extent that it becomes sophism.

Endemic: natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways. belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place Write a journal entry (a bulleted list) containing the word and one other about the Breen essay

Castration: to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld; to render impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, esp. by threatening a person's masculinity or femininity

Inculcate: to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually fol. by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young; to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually fol. by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.

Parallelism: I ate apple because it seemed tasty. Parallelism Repetition:

Write a short 4-5 sentence paragraph concerning your reading about Frankenstein. Include a colon. The four letters presented in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein incorporates various themes. For example, Walton's last letter introduces the danger of knowledge : "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you..." (62) The encounter with the stranger not only reveal the tragic consequences of the stranger’s obsessive search for understanding are revealed but also Walton's eagerness to know what no one else knows. As one of the Gothic novels, Frankenstein already starts with a eerie situation.

-- The following sentence has a lengthy series joined by repeated possessive pronouns. Do you think the sentenceis effective or weak? What feature contributes strength or detracts from te rhetorical effectiveness?

"Walled off from the roaring traffic of the Embankment and Fleet Street and High Holborn, each Inn is a self-centered community with its own gardens, lush with cherry and magnolia, camelia, and crocus; its own library; its own dining hall; its labyrinth of walks and lawns; its blocks of offices and flats let out mostly to barristers." Robert Wernick, //Smithsonian//, May 1992

I think the sentences are effective, yet too detailed. It describes the place specifically. However, it seems to disturb the overall flow of the sentences because of the excessive descriptions.

In __Frankenstein__, the first four letters and the preface, I read weren't mainly about the story -- it covered the intention of the writing and background of the narrator. The book starts with an exploration of the narrator and covers a lot of topics through his letters: for example, loneliness, risks taken by discovery of new knowledge, and etc. It seems like the letters are foreshadowing what's coming up in the future of this book.