Mid-term Flashcards
New Criticism
Focus on the formal elements of a work- its language, structure, and tone.
Only one message.
No feelings.
Affective
Emote
Intentional
Divine what the author is talking about
Archetype
A symbol that everyone sees the same way
Complexities-
Ironies
Tension
Ambiguities
Paradox
Ironies
Something we do not expect
Tensions
Opposites
Ambiguities
Something with more than one meaning
Paradox
It only makes sense within the context of the story.
Fiction
A creative work that is not based in reality and is instead made up from the imagination of the author
What we look for in fiction?
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Exposition
Into to the story. Giving context (not always at the beginning)
Rising action
Build up to the climax
Climax
Key event
Falling action
Result of climax. Bring you to the resolution. Shows us how the story changes.
Resolution
Message of the story
Reader-response
Focuses its attention on the reader rather than the work itself. Describes what goes on in the reader’s mind during the process of reading a text.
Reader-response strategies
- Move through text super slow motion.
- Describe your own response moving through the text.
- React to the text, embracing and expressing the subjective and personal response it engenders.
Where does the meaning of the text land? With the reader or the text?
In between/ in the middle of
Fallacies
An error in reasoning that occurs when an argument is illogical or when irrelevant points are made without evidence.
Effective and intentional
Feminist criticism
Seek to correct or supplement what they regard as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
Feminist criticism strategies
- Consider the gender of the author
- Does the literature undermine or reinforce the stereotypes placed on men and women?
- Imagine yourself as a women reading the works.
What criticism is focuses on gender roles?
Feminist criticism
Poetry
Oldest type of literature. Taking ideas and forms into words. Not a lot of descriptions.
Sounds
Important b/c poetry is supposed to be read out loud.
Alliteration
Reputation of continents
Onomatopoeia
Use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes.
Line lengths
Monometer= 1 foot
Diameter= 2 feet
Trimeter= 3 feet
Tetrameter= 4 feet
Pentameter= 5 feet
Hexameter= 6 feet
Hepameter= 7 feet
Octameter= 8 feet
Rhythms
A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
Sonnets
A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Two forms= Italian and English
Italian sonnet
Divided into an octave and a sestet.
English sonnet
4-4-4-2
Volta
Dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.
Symbols
A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.
