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Literature Review Flashcards

Questions Mr. Caslaspi asked in class. Add more.

1
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What is phathetic fallacy?

A

It is a show of emotion through the natural world.

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What genre of poetry includes mourninig?

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Elegy

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What is an example of an elegy that we have read?

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

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Who wrote Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?

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Walt Whitman

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What was the form of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?

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Free Verse

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What is the difference between Free Verse and Blank Verse?

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Blank Verse holds no specfic rhyme scheme but has a meter while Free Verse has no spefic petter in rhyme or meter.

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Is this line Blank or Free Verse: “I thought once how Theocratetas had sung”?

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Blank Verse

It is the first line of a sonnet.

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Who was the first person to write an English Sonnet?

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Thomas Wyatt

He started by translating some of Petrach’s sonnetts to english!

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What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?

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Ocatave, Volta, Sestet

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What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?

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Ocatave, Volta, Sestet

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What is the structure of an English Sonnet?

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3 Quatrains and a Couplet

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What is the rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet?

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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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What period/century was the english sonnet introduced?

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Early Modern Period(Renaissance) - Sixteenth Century

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What century was Shakespere mostly writing in?

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Seventeenth Century

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When was Odysseus’s moment of aristeia?

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When Odysseus killed the suitors.

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What is deus ex machina?

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A quick-happy ending.

In ancient greek it was shown as divine intervention.

God comes from a machine.

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What genre does ‘in medias res’ come from?

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Epics

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What is the meaning of in medias res?

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Starting in the middle of story.

Usually showing the rest of the story through flashbacks

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Who coined the term in medias res and in what work of literature?

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Horace in his theory of Ars Poetics.

20
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What broad field of theory are Ars Poetics and Poetics included in?

Poetics is by Aristotle

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Aesthetics

21
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What were 2 centeral concepts form Nietzhe’s Birth of Tragedy?

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Apollonian: Order, structure, and law
Dionysian: Escatsy, crazy, and drunk

Based off of the Greek Gods, Apollo and Dionysus

22
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Who wrote Antigone?

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Sophocles

23
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Where was Antigone written?

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Aethens

24
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Who are other big playwrites from Aethens similar to Sophocles?

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Aeschylus and Euripides

25
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What century was Antigone written?

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5th Century B.C.

26
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What play did Aeschylus write?

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Oresteia

27
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Why is Oresteia important within the Odyssey?

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Telemachus is very similar to Oreste; The story of Oreste is brought up a few times to Telemachus.

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How many plays are in the Oresteia?

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Three, making it a trilogy.

One of the only ones left from that time

29
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What is one of the first moments of anagnorisis towards Odysseus when he returns home?

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When Argos sees through Odysseus’s disguise.

Argos is the dog.

30
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What is the meaning of Pastoral?

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Genre about life in the country side/nature

31
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What moment of pastoral eutopia is shown in the Odyssey?

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Phaeacia

Also known as Scheria.

32
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Who does Odysseus first meet in Phaeacia?

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Nausicaa

33
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Who is the king of Phaeacia?

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Alcinous

34
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What principal do the people of Phaeacia abide by?

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Xenia

The concpet of hospitaltiy between the guest and the host.

35
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Where was Odysseus before he reached in Phaeacia?

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Ogygia

Calypso’s Island

36
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How long was Odysseus in Ogygia?

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7 years

37
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What is the name of Circe’s island?

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Aeaea

38
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How long was Odysseus in Aeaea?

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1 year

39
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What language was the Odyssey written in?

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Ancient Greek

40
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What language does Shakespere write in?

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Early Modern English

41
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How would one know whether a word in written in second person singlar?

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There would be a ‘st’ at the end.

42
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How would one know whether a word in written in third person plural?

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There would be no change.

43
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What is the difference between ‘thou’ and ‘you’?

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Thou is in-formal singular while you is formal and plural.

44
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What is a signifier with multiple meanings?

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Symbol

45
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Who were leading people in American Romanticsm?

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Emerson, Dickenson, Hawthorne

46
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What century was American Romanticsm?

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Second Half of the 19th century

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