Literature Flashcards
Aristotles 3 type of friendship
Utility
Pleasure
Goodness
Friendship of utility
Both ppl derive some benefit from the other
Easily dissolved
Determined by usefulness of person
Friendship of pleasure
Both ppl are drawn to each other’s qualities
Linked to young ppl bc they are seeking immediate gratification or pleasure out of the friendship
Usually short lived
Friendship of goodness
Both admire each other’s goodness and help one another strive for goodness
Highest level of friendship (like family)
Long lasting
What is theme
NOT SUBJECT
Idea on which a story is built
Universal theme
Theme that come up again and again in literature
Deal with basic human concerns
How to find theme
Conflict helps reveal theme
Titles give clues
Theme applies to the entire work
An authors style
The manner of expression of a particular writer produced by: choice of words, sentence structure, use of literary devices, rhythm
Vignette
Style of HonMS
Short, well written sketch or descriptive scene
Doesn’t have a plot, but reveals some elements to the story
Description of scene/character is important
Direct characterization
Narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is
Indirect characterization
Author shows things that reveal characters personality
5 methods of indirect characterization
Looks (what you can infer based on their looks) Speech Relationships Actions Thoughts
Bildungsroman
A novel depicting someone’s growth from childhood to maturity
Protagonist (usually pubescent) grows, learns, and changes in order to take their place in the world
Coming of age story
FOIL characters
Two characters who contrast each other in order to highlight each other’s differences
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - what is it
A theory by Abraham Maslow (psychologist) about what is needed for personal growth
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs- levels
Self actualization Esteem Love/belonging Safety Physiological
Three categories of Shakespeare’s plays
Tragedy
Comedy
History
Why are Shakespeare’s Works so popular
Bc he wrote about human nature and how people behave
What was Shakespeare before he wrote plays and poems
Actor
How many of Shakespeare’s plays are considered tragedies
10
Soliloquy
Speeches made by a character when they’re by themselves
When they think out loud
Purpose of soliloquy
To help the audience understand the main character
Three characteristics of a tragic hero
Man of high rank
Put into a difficult situation he must resolve
Bad luck and bad decisions lead to death
Where is R+j set
Verona, Italy
How do his tragedies usually end
Most characters are dead ; others are left to start again
In most of his tragedies, what feeling is left
Some good can come from terrible suffering
Review Romeo and Juliet time line
Last page of lit notes
Dramatic irony
When audience knows something that the characters don’t
Tragedy
a written work with a sad ending where the hero either dies or ends up mentally, emotionally, or spiritually devastated beyond recovery
Aside
when a character is talking about something but not all characters can hear
Couplet
2 lines of poetry, with the same meter, founded by a rhyme
Pun
wordplay (humor)
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Situational irony
When the opposite of what’s expected happens
Verbal irony
The opposite meaning of what is said (sarcasm)
Oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Ex: Tragic comedy, in act 1 scene 1 when Romeo is sad over rosaline and Says things like “loving hate, heavy lightness, cold fire, sick health,etc”
Romeo and Juliet main ideas
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LoTF main ideas
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