Hero’s Journey: template for heroic tales
- Separation
- Call
May be a sudden, traumatic change
May be a vague sense of discontent
- The Threshold
The gateway to the unknown
- Guardian/Mentor
Mentor: helper, brings a talisman to help through the ordeal, appears throughout the journey
- Initiation and Transformation
Into a physical or psychological unknown
- The Challenges
May pretend to be helper or friend
Use fear, doubt, or distraction
- The Abyss
Hero faces greatest fear and must face it alone
“Slay the dragon”- shape of something he dreads, has repressed, or needs to resolve
- The Transformation and Revelation
Revelation: a sudden, dramatic change in the way the hero thinks or views life, the change makes him a truly different person
- The Atonement/Enlightenment
He has incorporated the changes caused by the journey and is reborn
- The Return
Discovers his gift:
Becomes richer & stronger
Becomes a great leader
Becomes spiritually enlightened
Indefinite Pronouns:
An indefinite pronoun does not refer to any specific person, thing or amount. It is vague and "not definite". Some typical indefinite pronouns are:
- all, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone
Vague Pronoun: does not have a clear antecedent (does not point back to a specific noun)
Aside:
adramatic devicein which acharacterspeaks a brief comment to theaudience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.
Soliloquy:a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.
Tragic Flaws:A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow
Examples: indecisiveness, pride, vanity
Subject/verb agreement
Sheandher friendsareat the fair.
The bookorthe penisin the drawer.
Oneof the boxesisopen
The peoplewho listen to that musicarefew.
Subject/pronoun agreement
If astudentwants to pass this class,s/hemust do all ofhis/herhomework.
Studentswho want to pass this class must do all oftheirhomework.
Treat thecustomeras ifs/hewere a guest in your home.
Treatcustomersas if they wereguestsin your home.
To/too/two
To
Usetoas a preposition before a noun or as an infinitive before a verb. To and Too can be tricky!
Examples
"Please take me to the dance"
"We don't need to buy that right now."
Too
Usetooas a synonym foralsoor to indicateexcessivenessbefore a verb. Usually, if you can replacetoowithalsoin the same sentence, and it still makes sense, then you are using it correctly.
Examples
"I am going to the mall, too."
"I had too many tacos for lunch."
Two
Usetwoto spell out the number 2. If you can replacetwowith2in the same sentence, and it still makes sense, then you are using it correctly. This should be the easiest one!
Examples
"I have two hands and two feet."
"Can you give me two dollars?"
Their/there/they’re
When to Use / How to TestThere / Naming a place, a thing, or the existence of something / Replace “there” with “here”
Their / Showing possession / Replace “their” with “our”
They’re / Combining the words “they” and “are” / Replace “they’re” with “they are”
Common sentence errors: see worksheet
Dialogue punctuation: see worksheet
In-text citations: the first word/words on your works cited page is what goes in the in-text citation parenthesis. If the first word/words is in quotations, it should also be in quotations for your in-text citations, etc… The Works Cited entry should be shortened if it is a long title or web address.