Notes

Question 0

What are the two requirements for a work to be called a contemporary tragedy

Answer 0

1. Has not or will not stand the test of time

2. Hero does not grow and does not learn

Question 1

What are the two requirements for a work to be called a classic tragedy

Answer 1

1. Has or will pass the test of time

2. Hero is raised to heroic stature

Question 2

What are the 4 steps to the contemporary tragic hero

Answer 2

1. Loner, does not fit in anywhere
2. Has a flaw, unable to make right choice
3. Suffers because he seeks dignity
4. Is a hero, does not solve problem, does not learn

Question 3

What are the 3 steps to the classic tragic hero

Answer 3

1. Learns from mistakes
2. Grows
3. Is risen to heroic stature (comes to epiphany)

Question 4

What are the 8 elements of literature

Answer 4

Theme
Climax 
Rising action 
Exposition 
Setting 
POV 
Mood 
Tone (big mama)

Question 5

Stylistic devices that author’s may use

Answer 5

Techniques

Question 6

Genres of fiction

Answer 6

Play/drama, novel, poetry, short story

Question 7

Genres of nonfiction

Answer 7

Biography, essay

Question 8

Transcendentalism is

Answer 8

A philosophy that can be applied to literature, knowledge comes from beyond the five senses, only way to gain knowledge is to commune with nature

Question 9

What are the three components of romanticism

Answer 9

1. Uses simple direct language
2. Spontaneous and intense
3. Reflection if nature, which demonstrates the over soul and when reflection you gain self knowledge
   (Beauty, truth, freedom, love)

Question 10

Expressionism is

Answer 10

Chaos in the characters mind reality becomes distorted

Question 11

Impressionism is

Answer 11

Depiction of a scene, emotion or characters by details in order to achieve vividness or effectiveness or evoking subject sense, objective reality

Question 12

Existentialism is

Answer 12

Philosophy that can be applies to literature, believes that what happens in life happens because you chose it to happen, man spends entire life searching for why he exists but will never find it (because there is no meaning, man is a alien in a hostile world, there is no right or wrong rationalize everything, isolated, anti community society and Christ, no coincidences, life is meaningless

Question 13

Theatre of the absurd

Answer 13

Blurred timeline

Can’t tell between reality or illusion

Question 14

Modernism

Answer 14

The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression