ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY #1

“Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins.” Gwynn, R. S., 1987. In this version of Snow White, the seven dwarfs are replacedwith the seven deadly sins. Each sins tells what she has to go through during each day of her life. “NO poisoned apple needed forthis Princess,” she says. Each of the SDS’s are burdens in her eyes and she doesn’t need anyone to try to kill her because shefeels as if she is dying already. The Seven would grab their pitchforks and horns, and contravene God’s work in her life; pushingher further and further away from what she was raised. She suffers from the Seven, paling and graying over the years, donningfestered bruises from Wrath. Until she sees the Prince to out of the window to take her away from her misery and help her jumpback into a life full of happiness.

LITERARY TERMS

Allusion­ an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.ex: “Oh, stop being a Romeo.”

Symbol­ Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object usedto represent something invisible.ex: U.S.A. has the symbol of an eagle.

Simile­ A figure of speech that compares two things using the words “like” or “as”.ex: “You’re as dumb as a box of rocks.”

Metaphor­ a figure of speech comparing two things NOT using “like” or “as”ex: “life is a journey.”

Imagery­ vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste).ex: “It was dark and dim in the forest.”

Denotation­ the dictionary meaning of a termex: “beyond their immediate detonation, the words have a connotative power.”

Connotation­the emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word.ex: the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression

Irony­how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem.ex: a man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

Allegory­ characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.ex: Animal Farm because it shows how greed and indifference corrupted revolution.

WORD PLAY

DENOTATION

PRIDE is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace ofGod. It has been called the sin from which all others arise; also known as Vanity.ENVY is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.GLUTTONY is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.LUST is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.WRATH is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for furyGREED is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual.SLOTH is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

CONNOTATIONI’m going to use the characters from spongebob to represent each deadly sin.

PRIDE ­ Sandy Cheeks makes sure that we all know she’s from Texas and that she’s a land mammal who breathesoxygen. Makes sure to remind everyone that she’s the best at martial arts and science.ENVY ­ Plankton is envious of Mr. Krabs success and continuously tries to ruin his business so he can boost hisreputation. Every episode, he tries to find a way to obtain the secret formula to the Krabby Patty.GLUTTONY ­ Gary the Snail is always begging Spongebob to feed him, and in every episode he whines untilhe is fed. If you notice, he always eats everything in only one bite each time.LUST ­ Spongebob represents lust, not in a sexual way, but he has excessive love for everyone and everything even ifthey don’t love him back. He treats Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and even Mrs. Puff as if they’re best friends.WRATH ­ Squidward Tentacles hates his life, and mostly Spongebob, and is never happy with himself unless he’splaying his clarinet. He’s always rude to Spongebob when all he really does is tell him hello.GREED ­ Mr. Krabs is always trying to find a quick scheme to make money, or trick someone into giving him money. Inreal life, crabs always add more to their shell after obtaining enough already.SLOTH ­ Patrick Star lays under his rock all day and doesn’t want to do anything. He won an award for doing nothingthe longest.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY #2

“Bread.” Margaret Atwood 1983. In this short passage, Margaret talks about the issue of modern society in threes:food, life, and choice; greed, jealousy, and ambition; selfishness, selflessness, and compassion. In our life, we see asimple loaf of bread as something so simple and easy to come across. While someone else in a different country views aSLICE of bread as a luxury and unobtainable because they are poor and don’t have a way to get even fresh water. Thehuman race comes in different forms; some are only worried about themselves and then there are the few who actually

care about others well being. The authors style of writing is to inform us of what we should know, to inform us of how thehuman race reacts in different situations. Some of these, we might see as unrealistic, but in others eyes it could be therelife. Her writings are meant to open our eyes and to start changing our ways, so the world can change as a whole.

VOCABULARY

Vignette­ a short and graceful literary sketch or essay.

ANALOGIES

RELATIONSHIP EXAMPLE

Cause and Effect Sloth : Obesity :: Exercise : Muscles

Synonym Envy : jealousy :: Smart : Bright

Object to its normal function Wrath : Violence :: Tired : Yawning

Antonym Gluttony : Fasting :: Left : Right

Degree Greed : Stingy :: Sheriff : Lieutenant

Object to characteristic Lust : Wanting :: Authority : Strict

Class to subclass Pride : Trait :: Literature : Fiction

WRITING

Mary was a rich woman, walking around with old money in her bank account glutton; sat around all daygormandizing. She was too lazy to do anything that wouldn’t result in her getting a meal, free or not. All day she would siton her couch, surrounded by foods that ranged from junk food to fully cooked meals; there was absolutely nopreference. The kitchen was full of dirty dishes, only washing them when she needs to use them to make and place herfood. She didn’t talk to her family because she felt as if they were all against her, felt as if all they ever did was talk downon her because she was way overweight when in reality they wanted her to change her lifestyle and lose all of thatunnecessary weight. Weighing in at 492 lbs, she felt as if they should be happy that she wasn’t 700 lbs. She loved theskin she was in, however jiggly and rolley in may be. Everyone should want to be like her, enjoying all of the foods thatGod put on the Earth for us to consume. Her garbled speech usually confuses those around her because there is alwayssomething in her mouth. And as far and that stench that everyone smells when they’re around her, it’s because she can’tmanage to clean in between every roll of fat that she has. And since she can’t reach every place on her body, she just

stands under hot water and then sprays her body with supposedly “powder clean” body spray.She has no friendsbecause she doesn’t make any attempts to talk to others, and she has no pets because doesn’t see why she should buyfood for anyone except for herself. But she ended up making this delicious delicious, over stuffed burger that caused themassive heart attack that her family found out she died from when they got a call from the hospital a few days later.

Patrick sat around in a torpid state his whole life, that his family just nicknamed him SLOTH. All he would do is sleepmost of his day away and when he did wake up he’d still just lay in his bed watching tv or playing games. He had hardlyany friends because he never wanted to do anything that would make him consider moving from his comfortable dent inhis bed that he created, he was just socially and physically inactive. He looked sort of like a lumberjack by the face; big,burly unkempt beard that looked as if it matter a century ago. All he ate was take out/delivery; too lazy to get up out ofhis bed and make anything. The only thing you would hear from him is his complaining of how tired he was and he didn’thave the energy or the will to move from whatever spot he was in. He craved the new smell of his bed; he gloried in thearoma that he had implanted into the fabric of his pillows and sheets. George’s fingers were knotted up from theincalculable hours he spent using them to press the colorful buttons on his controller; his joints now deformed from beingheld in one position for far way too long. Eventually, he ended up breaking every finger he had from playing too hard,and couldn’t take the pain of not playing his games. So he decided to play his own version of GTA and ran out into themiddle of traffic. Now, “The Sloth” had a reason to lay down for a long time; this time he was never getting up.

Shelly was the greenest person you’d ever meet, with ENVY that is. She was envious of everyone around her. Her familydidn’t come from much; you could tell by the hand­me­downs that she wore everyday. She couldn’t go out to eateveryday like all of the other kids at school because she didn’t have a car or money, so she had to stick to the basiclunch that the school provided. Her hair wasn’t as soft as the pretty girls because her mom couldn’t afford to buy PaulMitchell shampoo and conditioner, only the simple store brand. No fancy No. 5 Chanel perfume like the richest girlswore, just hoped that her deodorant gave her enough of a pleasant smell that someone would comment on how deliciousshe smelled. She didn’t have an iPod or even an MP3 player because, well you already know, her mother couldn’tafford it. All she had was a simple CD player that she didn’t bring out in front of anyone because she was ashamed of it.What we are sure she heard though, was the loud blare of a horn from the car that ran her over in her trudge to the worsthouse in her eyes, her home that she would no longer get the chance to step foot into again.

Sandra was just the type of person that never woke up on the right side of the bed. Wrath had its hands wrapped aroundher brain. She went to sleep with a frown on her face and woke up the exact same way. She never had anything nice tosay and her family walked on eggshells around her. She never liked the way her mom ever made her food and made surethat her mother knew that she was disgusted by the “concoction” her mom created that she lied and called “breakfast”:lunch” and “dinner.”. The smell of flowers? Oh she hated that, she hated all of the perfume and cologne people wouldbestow upon her for birthdays or holidays. Nothing satisfied her. Not even the boxing classes she took that wassupposed to get rid of her pent up energy. Everything just pissed her off and one day she took it out on the wrongperson, some random stranger that had accidentally bumped into her. Now this stranger was just released from women’sprison for aggravated assault, but was about to go back for murder because Sandra tried to pick a fight with her and lost.

Sandy was what others would call a snob, conceited, narcissistic, hubristic, or haughty. Her PRIDE was too great. Shewas known as the girl who made sure that everyone knew that her and her family were from Puerto Rico and made surethat they didn’t forget it. She had specially made backpacks, shoes, clothes, jewelry, even her car was decked out inCoquis. Her ringtone was their mating call that only natives recognized. She only ate foods from Bori restaurants and ifnot from there, only if someone in her family made it; none of that fast food or school food. Everyday she would boastabout the fragrance of fresh tostones or mofongos, a food made from their plantains. Or it would be that the sand onCayo Matias beach was of the best grain one would ever run their fingers through. Sandy’s boastful attitude created ahate­group towards her that had cut her brakes one day during school. She never realised anything was wrong until shehit the 18­wheeler on the highway and died instantly.

Bobby was definitely one of a kind. He was in a way, the symbol of LUST. He was the type of person that wantedeveryone to like him and would do anything to make sure that everyone was satisfied. He loved everyone, even thosewho made it very clear that they hated his guts and he just looked over it and tried to get everyone involved in everything.People saw him as annoying or stupid because of how nonchalant he was about certain things. Smiling even when theflavor of peoples words were horrendous.His heart was softer than that of a teddy bear and it ended up getting him intomore trouble than good. One day on his way from home, he saw this stranger getting mugged in an alley. He pulled overand ran over to help, not knowing that this was a drug deal gone bad; the buyer was $40 short. He tried to pry themapart and then he smelled metallic stench of blood hit his nose. He looked at each of the men in confusion; there wasn’t asingle cut on their person. He kept looking between the two as he started falling towards the ground. His life slowlyflowing out of his side in a slow red flow that stained the gravel. The thing he lusted for the most was leaving him; life wasno more.

Eugene was the most hankering, grabby, parsimonious GREEDY. His motives were mostly covetous and he loved totake money from those who even really needed it. His eyes were the color green like the dollar signs he dreamed aboutevery night. He has his pillows stuffed with the softest money; dove feathers only. His life just smelled of money with newcar smells, new suit smells, caviar, EVERYTHING smelled expensive and if not then there was a problem. He went toVegas one week and decided to gamble half of his money. He felt that he was on top on the world and could only gethigher. The sounds of the bells never went off on his machine; ended up taking all of his money and in a fit of rage, heyelled and the screen. Kicking it and punching it, screaming at it to give his money back. In this battle of rage, he pulledout his pistol and shot the screen, drawing the attention of cops set up around the perimeter. “PUT DOWN YOURGUN,” they yelled. But too angry to listen, shots were fired as he waved his gun around in frustration. BANG, he hits thefloor.