images

 

gangs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRKx7hd3X9k

MLA 7th edition Works Cited

The changes   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF0Vc3WIEZM

citing a book  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90n7_2XYcY

citing an article   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziHO_psqWw

drive by truckers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhPog33fJwc

 

LET THERE BE ROCK

(Hood / DBT)

Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama, with a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I’d like to say, “I’m sorry”, but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid, shit.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With 38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.

One night when I was seventeen, I drank a fifth of vodka, on an empty stomach, then drove over to a friend’s house. And I backed my car between his parent’s Cadillac’s without a scratch.
Then crawled to the back door and slithered threw the key hole, and sneaked up the stares
And puked in the toilet.
I passed out and nearly drowned but his sister, DD, pulled me out.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
And the band that I was in played “The Boy’s are Back in Town”.

Skynyrd was set to play Huntsville, Alabama, in the spring of 77, I had a ticket but it got cancelled.
So, the show, it was rescheduled for the “Street Survivors Tour”.
And the rest, as they say, is history.

So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads in 82
Right before that plane crash.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw AC/DC
With Bon Scott singing, “Let There Be Rock Tour”.

With Bon Scott singing, LET THERE BE ROCK!

wordiness

due to the fact that because of the fact that at this point in time at that point in time he is a man who in today’s world this day and age has the ability in order to during the same time that during the time that until such time as in spite of the fact that by means of be of the opinion that disappear from view

tall in height
blue in color
small in size
short in length
in a hasty manner
this is a subject that
the reason why is that
the question as to whether
be under the impression that
given the fact that
each and every one
put forth an effort
empty void
past experiences

cliches to avoid – link

http://clichesite.com/alpha_list.asp?which=lett+1

Link to audio of Jamaica Kincaid reading Girl

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/Girl/audio.asp

Short Story Unit Test Terms

This list may be added to before the quiz but it’s something to start with.

 

Transformation

Quest

Theme

Setting – atmosphere

Style

Development – motivation

1^st person narration

3^rd person narration

Omniscience

Types of symbolism

Dictionary citation – MLA

According to  the MLA Handbook, treat a dictionary entry in the Works Cited as you would a piece in a collection. Start with the word being defined, followed by title of dictionary and, if needed, edition. End with publication date.

“Noon.”  The Oxford English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. 1989.

 

If citing a specific definition, among several, add Def and designation.

“Noon.”  Def. 4b. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. 1989.

 

The in-text citation for the above examples is simply (“Noon”).

Sentence Fragments

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html

Freytag’s Pyramid link

This is good for the five act plays Freytag was looking at. It should never be used for short fiction.

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/freytag.html