Midterm Exam - Literary Analysis

Question 0

Folktales

Answer 0

✅ Part of the oral tradition

✅ Body of stories, poems, and songs that are passed down orally

Question 1

Archetypes

Answer 1

✅ Archetypes: basic plot/character/idea that recurs in LIT.

✅ Hero’s Quest: extraordinary person goes on a difficult journey.

Question 2

Narrative structure

Answer 2

✅ The way in which a work of fiction is organized

Question 3

Analogy

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✅ Explanation of how 2 things are similar
✅ Use figurative lang. Such as similes and metaphors
✅ “If 2 things are alike in one or more way, they are probably also alike…”

Question 4

Metaphor:

• implied
• direct

Answer 4

✅ Figure of speech that compares 2 apparently unlike things
✅ DIRECT: connects 2 terms directly
✅ IMPLIED: suggests the comparison

Question 5

Didactic Literature

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✅ Teaches lessons on ethics, principles regarding right & wrong conduct.
✅ Moral may be drawn
✅ Poetry — 4 LINES

Question 6

APHORISM

Answer 6

✅ Statements about HUMAN EXPERIENCE — couplets “2 LINES”

Question 7

PERSONIFICATION

Answer 7

✅ human qualities to inhuman things

Question 8

Epic Conflict

Answer 8

✅ Menacing enemies
✅ moral dilemmas
✅ natural dangers

Question 9

Proverbs

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✅ Sayings that offer cultural wisdom & practical truths about life.

Question 10

Imagery

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✅ Create word pictures by appealing to the senses

✅ “hot dry wind” — makes descriptions more vivid & abstract idea concrete.

Question 11

Antithesis

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✅ Use of strongly contrasting language, images, or ideas.

Question 12

Archetypal settings

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✅Time, place, or landscape feature that has similar significance for different people.
• universe of opposites
• circle that symbolizes completeness
• tree connecting the realms of heaven and earth.