To be quite honest, I only started studying for this literature midterm...well when I got home from school today. Not that I don't care about lit/was stressed about it, but my Calc and Italian tests seemed to cover so so much that they took up most of my time. Big mistake! After looking through all the materials online (both google and chia's website) I realized I had way more than I had imagined to learn. However, now that my day is almost over, I'm noticed that I shouldn't have made all those flashcards with the terms on them...because most of them I can recognize on my own. Sure, I may not know that an stressed part of a story that is overly exaggerated is called a hyperbole, but when reading I can pull out that portion of the text as important. Thus, I have has a bit of an epiphany. Literature is not about recognizing the key terms and analyzing why the author said that, instead its more about noticing how the author uses these literary terms to enhance the story.
Don't laugh if you already knew this because I've been raised to memorize. Math, science, social studies and even English...I'm a strict memorizer when it comes to tests. Not to say I'm a robot because I consider myself to be somewhat smart, but usually I'd be up studying for this midterm until midnight..but not this time. Perhaps this will be my grand experiment to see if I can rely on my own sheer intellect to guide me through. Hopefully it works, and if now...well, then I'll feel dumb but at least I'll know memorizing works for me! Maybe I'm being churlish and if all my kindly ignore this soliloquy....
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