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Sir ector

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Foster father of Arthur

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King Arthur unit

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Sir Kay

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A knight whose gruff manners present a special challenge to young Arthur whom he calls Wart. A foster brother

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Lady of the lake

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A fairy who gives Arthur the magic sword Excalibur

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Morgan le Fay

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Arthur’s half sister who constantly uses we magic to challenge him. She gives Lancelot the ultimatum to choose one of the four queens as his lover or die

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Guinevere

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Wife of Arthur whose love for Lancelot eventually leads to the kingdoms doom

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Tarquine

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This knight is challenged by striking a cauldron outside his castle. He hangs the shields of his defeated opponents I a nearby tree

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Lancelot

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The knight who slays Tarquine, best friends with Arthur, Guinevere’s lover

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Gawain

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Challenged by the green knight at the Christmas feast, this knight must return a year later to receive a blow from the green knights axe

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Galahad

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Son of sir Lancelot whose purity finally allows him to succeed in quest for the holy grail

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Sir bedivere

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The one who returns the Excalibur sword back to lake when Arthur dies

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Merlyn

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The magician

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Green knight

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=the old year, come full circle, why seasons change allegory, the test of initiation

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Illuminations

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Illustration in medieval manuscript, not meant to be realistic, colorful depictions

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Chivalry

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Honor code of the knights: defend the defenseless

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Medieval romance

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Genre of tragedy and comedy together, has hero superior to nature and people, hero has magic powers not subject to nature

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Pre-Raphaelites painters

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Victorian England in late 19 the century

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The lady of shalott

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Identity in isolation: writes name on boat, many paintings of her

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John William Waterhouse

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Influenced by pre-Raphaelites, this artist painted two famous depictions of lady of shalott- realistic style with symbolism/half sick of shadows

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Isolde of the White Hands

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She tells Tristan that an approaching ship has a black sail when it really has a white one

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Princess Isolde or Isolde the fair

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Daughter of the king and queen of Ireland. Through a love potion she falls madly in love with Tristan

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Author of don Quixote

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Early 7th century monk, names Arthur the hero at badon hills

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Nennius

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Made Arthur a descendant of Aeneas, first shaper of Arthur legend, first to mention Merlin the magician

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

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Introduced the Round Table

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Wace

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High Middle Ages, features love triangle, single hero adventure story, dies before answering holy grail

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Chretien de Troyes

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Le morte d’arthur, wrote while in prison, William Caxton published off gutenburgs printing press, wrote during end of Middle Ages and knighthood

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Sir Thomas Malory

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Idylls of the king, made Arthur a moral leader

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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20th century, the once and future king, humorous and modern

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T. H. White

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a very typical example of a certain person or thing.

“the book is a perfect archetype of the genre”

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Archetype

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Fallacies

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False or illogical reasoning

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Fallacy of composition

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Applying an attribute of the parts to the whole

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Fallacy of division

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Applying an attribute of the whole to one of its parts

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Fallacy of accident

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Applying a general rule to every case-Marcia at shg and service

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Post hoc fallacy

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Because 2 events follow each other in time, one concludes that the first event caused the second

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Begging the question

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An argument in which the conclusion is used as one of the premises

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False analogy

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Because 2 things are alike in some respect, they aren’t necessarily alike in all respects

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Ad Hominem

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Attacking the person rather than the issue

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Non sequitur

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Argument with a missing claim, or untrue premise

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Appeal to force

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Ad baculum-

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Appeal to pity

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As misericordian

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Argument from ignorance

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One can’t argue something true simply because it hasn’t been proven false

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Complex question

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A question that assumes a prior question has already been asked and answered

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Bandwagon appeal

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Reasoning that something is true because everyone accepts it as true- ad populum

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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.

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English sonnet

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A lyric poem arranged as three quatrains and a couplet

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Go over poetry notecards

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In a different deck

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“A marriage Proposal”

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Anton Chekhov- farce and realism

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“The Bet”

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Anton Chekhov- short story, realism

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“Two Friends”

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Guy de Maupassant - short story, realism

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“How Much Land Does A Man Need”

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Leo Tolstoy- didactic lit/allegory

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“An Honest Thief”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky - supplemental book

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“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez- short story and magical realism

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Describe characteristics of works made during these times

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Classicism, Romanticism (Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Realism, Magical Realism

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This period wanted to use the scientists objectivity to describe the world.

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Realism

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Rousseau’s insistence that he is a unique individual unlike any other is representative of what period?

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Romanticism

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The bizarre and fantastic are treated as if they are ordinary and common

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Magical Realism

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The customs and laws of society are good for the individual

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Classicism

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Defined by balance, order, and symmetry.

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Classicism

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The state of nature makes the individual better, society destroys the individual.

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Romanticism

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Maupassant, Chekhov, and Tolstoy

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Realism

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This period judges the art of antiquity to be the foundation of creative activity, the rules of the past should continue to guide the artist

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Classicism

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Uses emotional, flowery language that describes a subjective experience.

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Romanticism

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Describes the world as it is rather than as we would like it to be

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Realism

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Classicism

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Revival of Greek and roman forms
Reason
Balance, form, order
Convention (rules for society, art)
Society
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Romanticism

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New forms
Nature over convention
Individual over society
Imagination and subjectivity

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Realism

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Objective presentation of life as it is, not as we would like it to be
A slice of life

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Chekhov is a

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Realist

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Literary timeline

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Timeline

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Golden age of Greece

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5th century bc. 500-400

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Fall of Roman Empire

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476 ad

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Middle Ages

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Between 476 ad to 1500

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Renaissance

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1500-1600

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Entering modern era

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1600s

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Classicism

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Age of Enlightenment (18th cent)

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Romanticism

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18th/19th century- 1800

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Realism

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1900- 19th century

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Author boigraphies

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Chekhov

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Taganrog, Russia

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Maupassant

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Normandie, France

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Tolstoy

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Yasnaya Pollyanna, Russia

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Dostoevsky

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Moscow, Russia

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Marquez

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Aractaca, Columbia

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He was a medical doctor who treated patients throughout his literary career

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Anton Chekhov

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He fought in the Crimean war

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Leo Tolstoy

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He fought in the Franco Prussian war

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Guy de Maupassant

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Though he was never in the army himself, his grandfather had served as a colonel in the was of a 1000 days

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Marquez

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A recipient of the Nobel peace prize in literature

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Marquez

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The author of War and Peace later repudiated it.

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Tolstoy

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He had been born into a life of privilege at his family’s estate. Yasnaya polyana. He would be buried there later after attempting to give away all his possessions

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Tolstoy

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Undertaking a journey across Siberia, he visited the penal colony at Sakhalin in order to interview all of its inmates

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Chekhov

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His “boule de suif” demonstrated that individuals are trapped by society

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Maupassant

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His short stories from the 1840s are centered in the city of st Petersburg

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Dostoevsky

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He finished One Hundred Years of Solitude after 18 months of intensive work.

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Marquez

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Franz Kafka

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The metamorphosis

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Born July 3, 1883 in Prague

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Died June 3, 1924 in Vienna of tuberculosis

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Born into a…

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Middle class, German speaking, Jewish family

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Educatin

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Elite German high school
Law degree in 1906 from university of Prague
Worked for workers accident insurance agency
Wrote on side

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Health

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Chronic illness- migraines, insomnia, boils

Tuberculosis- spent a lot of time in sanatorium for treatment, retired in 1922

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Literary works

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Instructed by max brod to destroy all writings

Published a few short stories

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Surrealism

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A literary artistic movement that originated in the 1920s. Reveal unconscious mind.
Works according to nonlogical model
Expression of thought exercised in absence of control of reason

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Characteristics of surrealism

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Juxtaposition
Irrational
Dreams
Unconscious- free association

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Repression and the unconscious

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“Before the Law”

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And surrealism connections essay

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Night

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Elie Wiesel

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Moishe the Beadle

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Jewish mystic and master of the Kabbalah. His warnings to the people of Sighet go unheeded.

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Idea, the Kapo

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The Kapo of Elie’s work block at Buna who forces 100 men to work on Sunday so he can meet with a polish girl

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Auschwitz

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Concentration camp where Elie arrives after leaving Sighet

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Buchenwald

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Place at which Elie’s father dies.

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Sighet

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Where Elie lives, in the Jewish ghetto

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Franek

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Work foreman who forces Elie to surrender his gold crown

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Juliek

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A violinist who plays the most beautiful music Elie has ever heard.

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Buna

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Concentration camp at which Elie has his foot surgery

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The Dutch oberkapos pipel

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The young boy who was hung for following orders- was innocent. A death parallel to Jesus’s. Compare this hanging to old man hanging and religion

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Development of the Modern Novel

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Notes

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What is a novel?

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extended piece of prose fiction about characters and their actions in everyday life

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Traditional elements of a novel include:

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many characters, strong plot, and unity of theme

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The Thousand and One Nights

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aka Arabian Nights, a collection of stories of unknown origin which recount the tales of Scheherazade to her husband, king Shahryar.

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TTAON dates to

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1000 BC; collected by an Egyptian story teller between 14-16th centuries. known in Europe in 18th century. “Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor”

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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emergence of English novel 1605,1615

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Pamela by Samuel Richardson

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1740- first novels, Virtue Rewarded

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Robinson Cruesoe by Daniel Defoe

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one of the first novels 1719

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Things Fall Apart

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Notes

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Chinua Achebe

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the author

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Life of Achebe

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1930-2013; Born of Ibo and Christian parents

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Father was teacher at Christian missionary school

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His Education-Govt college in Umuchia, university college, Nigerian Broadcasting Corp (1954-1966), Biafran ministry of Info, Professor at Univ. of Nigeria, Massachusetts, and Connecticut

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Major Characters in

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TFA

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Okonkwo

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main character, huge, big, severe, fear of failure and weakness

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Ikmefuna

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the sacrificed virgin son of another village, Okonkwo’s “adopted son” that he kills in fear of being seen as weak

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Ani

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the earth goddess, source of all fertility, ultimate judge of morality

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Ezinma

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Only child of O’s second wife, Ekwefi bc she survived infancy. Beautiful and O wishes she were a boy

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Uchendu

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Okonkwo’s wise old uncle in Mbanta

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Rev. James Smith

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Missionary who is unconcerned about the number of converts achieved; he is more concerned about their strict understanding of doctrine

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Enoch

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Christian convert who was believed to have killed the sacred python, and he wants a holy war against the tribe

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Akunna

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He debates religion with Mr. Brown without converting to Christianity, yet he still sends his son to the missionary school

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Unoka

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Okonkwo’s father, a drunken debtor, weak and left with nothing

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Nwoye

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Isaac is his Christian name, O’s oldest son who is seen as weak just like Unoka

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Ekwefi

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O’s second wife, Ezinma’s mom, good friends with Chielo, suffered ogbange

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Obierika

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O’s friend who questions tradition, does not believe they can fight in war, has daughters wedding

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Mr. Brown

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Missionary whose policies are marked by compromise and accommodation with the people of Umuofia

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District Commissioner

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“One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words.” In this quote the narrator is assuming the perspective of whom?

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Ajofia

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Leader of the egwugwu who bears no ill will against Rev. Smith but leads the other egwugwu in burning down the church

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people of Abame

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the clan is no more due to the “white man”

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egwugwu

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spirits of the ancestors of Nigerian clans

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osu

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Outcasts who are forever taboo, they may never use a razor or cut their long hair

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ogbange

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a changeling, child spirit born, dies young, and is reborn again, must find iwiyuwa or the stone that connects the ogbange to the spirit world to end it

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Vocab

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.

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The Holocaust is an ATROCITY like no other. The sheer brutality like no other.

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A cruel act or brutal act

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You might call Sarah’s neighbor truly ECCENTRIC. He has a fully automated bowling alley.

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strange, peculiar

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Professors often live in an ivory tower, their ETHEREAL ideas seem remote and abstract to most.

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heavenly, spiritual, extremely delicate- light or stars

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Overwhelmed by the news that his bff is moving, Robert’s PENSIVE mood continued all day.

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thoughtful in a sad, wistful way

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A king who has taken control of another kingdom by force might be called an USURPER

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one who takes something illegally

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We lost the game, there was nothing to do but walk DEJECTEDLY off the court and into the locker room.

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in a dishearted, depressed way

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Not having any food for 3 years, the prisoner of war was utterly EMACIATED.

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abnormally thin or weak

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Chris is a big fan of Harry Potter. To his friends he seemed like a FANATIC.

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extremely enthusiastic

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Despite the impatient, long line of people, the cashier remained UNPERTURBED and waited efficiently on each person asap.

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calm and serene, untroubled

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The student METICULOUSLY went over every detail of his paper.

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showing great attention to detail, very careful and precise

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principal

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an original sum invested or lent

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The first __ of logic is that a thing cannot be…

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Principle

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The ___ reason I have gathered you here is to explain our new insurance coverage.

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Principal

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The ___ of the loan was $5,000.

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Principal

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a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something

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Blandishments

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A rapid movement in a circle or spiral

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gyration

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annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

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obtuseness

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requiring considerable time and effort

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laboriously

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sealed air tight

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hermetically

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a forgetting or having forgotten

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oblivion

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dried up or shriveled

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wizened

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the belief that God can best be known through direct personal experience

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mysticism

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a person moving in a mechanical manner

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automaton

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the quality of being clear and readily understood

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lucidity

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to address with angry speech or tirade

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harangued

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expressing sorrow, mournful

A

plaintive

174
Q

like ashes, pale or pallid in color

A

ashen

175
Q

extreme poverty like Moishe

A

penury

176
Q

often fluctuating pain in the abdomen

A

colic

177
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The growing violence between the 2 ethnic groups was a sign of INCIPIENT racial tension.

A

in an initial stage, beginning to happen, appear or develop

178
Q

She set for herself an ARDUOUS goal of becoming the President of the USA.

A

involving strenuous, difficult effort

179
Q

During interrogation, the suspect refused acknowledgement of the crime and FEIGNED ignorance.

A

to give a false appearance, to pretend

180
Q

No one except the Cardinals knows the exact procedures of electing a pope, making the whole event rather ESOTERIC.

A

intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

181
Q

Chicago is well known for talkative politicians. I just met a VOLUBLE politician on my last visit there.

A

talkative, rotating, turning

182
Q

a person who behaves badly or breaks the law

A

miscreant

183
Q

unneccessary

A

superfluous

184
Q

THe gods of ancient myth seem to be CAPRICIOUS.

A

given to sudden and accountable changes of mood or behavior on a whim. not good for leaders

185
Q

Lincoln’s farewell address at the train station was a VALEDICTION given without any preparation.

A

action of saying farewell. goodbye speech

186
Q

The separated twins were POIGNANTLY reunited at an unexpected time, leaving them in tears.

A

deeply effective, keen sense, brings tears to eyes

187
Q

Despite best efforts, the class could not convince the sub that they dont have homework. She did not believe their SPECIOUS convincing.

A

having a false look of truth, deceptive attraction

188
Q

The President had no intention of granting his APPROBATION to renegotiate a plan approved by both sides.

A

approval or praise

189
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not showing due respect for another person, impertinent

A

impudent

190
Q

quality of sound, rich, deep voice

A

sonorous

191
Q

showing willingness, boldness

A

audacious

192
Q

Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.

A

odious

193
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Remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation):

A

redress

194
Q

Large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy:

A

cumbrous

195
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Public shame or disgrace:

A

ignominy

196
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deeply rooted hatred

A

enmity

197
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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language:

A

invective

English II (10 decks)

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