TERMS 1 Flashcards
Aside 3
1) An aside happens when a character’s dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.
2) Asides are useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot.
3) Macbeth;
the Abject
Objects and ideas that do not conform to set boundaries. i.e. regicide, women and leaky body rhetoric.
for example, “regicide” is the murdering of royal members such as Duncan in Macbeth. The murdering of anyone, especially the king, is not acceptable because the king has the divine right to rule and he represents God. Therefore, regicide is an abject because it doesn’t conform to social norms (what are accepted and what are not).
the porter scene metaphorically represents the abject because it comes across as the boundary that separates the scene of regicide and death of Duncan, and the following scene that brings the audience back to the concept of life.
woman body: the “monstrous birth pamphlet”. he suggests in the speech that his wife/ their mother might have been unfaithful and therefore their children are monstrous.
because the daughters are evil, he’s saying that their sins will show up on their children
Agency 4
1) The freedom and capacity to live and act in a defined world.
2) In a literature sense, we can interpret this in a few different ways. We could look at a specific character in a novel, and see his/her ability to make choices, act freely, and control their respective lives within the novel. The character is able to engage socially, take action on desired things, and have control over their own life.
3) the freedom to understand and comprehend literature in the reader’s own way, is what is meant by agency (for readers).
4) Apply all
Alliteration 2.
1) used to describe the repetition of initial consonant sounds. = it is what happens when words that begin with the same consonant (the letters that aren’t vowels) get all smushed together to great effect.
2) It creates a musical effect in the text that enhances the pleasure of reading a literary piece. It makes reading and recitation of the poems attractive and appealing; thus, making them easier to learn by heart. Furthermore, it renders flow and beauty to a piece of writing.
3) ex
Anapest 1.
1) A poetic device defined as a metrical韵律的 foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed.
2) ex
Assonance 1.
1) Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
2) ex
Caesura 2.
1) A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence.
2) It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end. At times, it occurs with punctuation; however, at other times it does not.
3) ex
Carnivalesque 2.
1) A literary mode that subverts颠覆；推翻；破坏 and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos.
2) ex**
reversal逆转 of power in The Tempest:
in The Tempest, Alonso (the king), Gonzalo and other members of the monarch are powerful ppl back in their homeland and Prospero is the banished Duke (he has no power). But when they arrive on Prospero’s island, the royal members become the powerless ones and instead Prospero is the one with power (his magic). therefore, a reversal of power.
Catalexis 3.
1) A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.
2) One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line.
3) Making a meter cataletic can drastically change the feeling of the poem, and is often used to achieve a certain effect.
4) ex
Chaucer 2
1) Known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
2) Author of “The Legend of Good Women” which Shakespeare had access to for writing plot of Antony and Cleopatra.
Chronicles 2
1) Contains the historical accounts of events and facts ranged in chronological order.
2) Raphael Holinshed contributed his works to it.
Colonialism 3
1) The establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colony in one territory by a political power from another territory.
2) It is a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power and the colony and often between the colonists and the indigenous population.
3) The Tempest
Consonance 3.
1) Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
2) For the purpose of reiterating the significance of an idea or theme.
3) In an attempt to underscore the emotions behind their words that simple words cannot convey.
4) ex
Dactyl 3.
1) A metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables
2) Create lilting movement and a break.
3) It makes poems pleasing, as intrinsically it is delightful and makes it more meaningful by using stressed and unstressed patterns.
4) ex
De Quincey 1
1) An English essayist who wrote “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” about equivocation.
