Literature Review Flashcards
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What is phathetic fallacy?
It is a show of emotion through the natural world.
What genre of poetry includes mourninig?
Elegy
What is an example of an elegy that we have read?
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Who wrote Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?
Walt Whitman
What was the form of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?
Free Verse
What is the difference between Free Verse and Blank Verse?
Blank Verse holds no specfic rhyme scheme but has a meter while Free Verse has no spefic petter in rhyme or meter.
Is this line Blank or Free Verse: “I thought once how Theocratetas had sung”?
Blank Verse
It is the first line of a sonnet.
Who was the first person to write an English Sonnet?
Thomas Wyatt
He started by translating some of Petrach’s sonnetts to english!
What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?
Ocatave, Volta, Sestet
What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?
Ocatave, Volta, Sestet
What is the structure of an English Sonnet?
3 Quatrains and a Couplet
What is the rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What period/century was the english sonnet introduced?
Early Modern Period(Renaissance) - Sixteenth Century
What century was Shakespere mostly writing in?
Seventeenth Century
When was Odysseus’s moment of aristeia?
When Odysseus killed the suitors.
What is deus ex machina?
A quick-happy ending.
In ancient greek it was shown as divine intervention.
God comes from a machine.
What genre does ‘in medias res’ come from?
Epics
What is the meaning of in medias res?
Starting in the middle of story.
Usually showing the rest of the story through flashbacks
Who coined the term in medias res and in what work of literature?
Horace in his theory of Ars Poetics.
What broad field of theory are Ars Poetics and Poetics included in?
Poetics is by Aristotle
Aesthetics
What were 2 centeral concepts form Nietzhe’s Birth of Tragedy?
Apollonian: Order, structure, and law
Dionysian: Escatsy, crazy, and drunk
Based off of the Greek Gods, Apollo and Dionysus
Who wrote Antigone?
Sophocles
Where was Antigone written?
Aethens
Who are other big playwrites from Aethens similar to Sophocles?
Aeschylus and Euripides
What century was Antigone written?
5th Century B.C.
What play did Aeschylus write?
Oresteia
Why is Oresteia important within the Odyssey?
Telemachus is very similar to Oreste; The story of Oreste is brought up a few times to Telemachus.
How many plays are in the Oresteia?
Three, making it a trilogy.
One of the only ones left from that time
What is one of the first moments of anagnorisis towards Odysseus when he returns home?
When Argos sees through Odysseus’s disguise.
Argos is the dog.
What is the meaning of Pastoral?
Genre about life in the country side/nature
What moment of pastoral eutopia is shown in the Odyssey?
Phaeacia
Also known as Scheria.
Who does Odysseus first meet in Phaeacia?
Nausicaa
Who is the king of Phaeacia?
Alcinous
What principal do the people of Phaeacia abide by?
Xenia
The concpet of hospitaltiy between the guest and the host.
Where was Odysseus before he reached in Phaeacia?
Ogygia
Calypso’s Island
How long was Odysseus in Ogygia?
7 years
What is the name of Circe’s island?
Aeaea
How long was Odysseus in Aeaea?
1 year
What language was the Odyssey written in?
Ancient Greek
What language does Shakespere write in?
Early Modern English
How would one know whether a word in written in second person singlar?
There would be a ‘st’ at the end.
How would one know whether a word in written in third person plural?
There would be no change.
What is the difference between ‘thou’ and ‘you’?
Thou is in-formal singular while you is formal and plural.
What is a signifier with multiple meanings?
Symbol
Who were leading people in American Romanticsm?
Emerson, Dickenson, Hawthorne
What century was American Romanticsm?
Second Half of the 19th century
