This week we spent the majority of class time working on our projects. At the beginning of the week we thought that we would be presenting our projects at the end of the week. So, my partner and I spent a lot of time at home reading our short stories and making our presentation. Later in the week, we found out that the projects will not be due until next week, so we had more time to work on perfecting our presentations and practicing presenting. My partner and I changed our presentation a lot from what we originally had. Originally, we had slides with a title, bullet points, and a picture or two. But, after we learned to make our projects more appealing and captivating to the audience, we through more about the stylistic choices we made. We changed the backgrounds of the slides, we made the pictures interact with the text, and we considered the color of the text. Our presentations should enhance the ideas and thoughts we had during this project, not dull them.
While reading and analyzing our stories in the beginning of the week, we learned a lot about our elements of fiction. Both of the short stories we read for humor, "The Drunkard" and "Rape Fantasies," had very heavy topics (a struggle with alcoholism within a family and understanding what rape is, respectively) and may not have been seen as humor at first. But, once we analyzed both stories we found many examples of irony in both. And, according to this website, literarydevices.net/humor/, humor in literature can be even more than irony. Humor can come from hyperbole or even surprise.
While reading and analyzing our stories in the beginning of the week, we learned a lot about our elements of fiction. Both of the short stories we read for humor, "The Drunkard" and "Rape Fantasies," had very heavy topics (a struggle with alcoholism within a family and understanding what rape is, respectively) and may not have been seen as humor at first. But, once we analyzed both stories we found many examples of irony in both. And, according to this website, literarydevices.net/humor/, humor in literature can be even more than irony. Humor can come from hyperbole or even surprise.