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Harper Lee - To Kill a mocking bird - ANSWER Atticus Finch, Boo Radley and Mayella Ewell are all characters featured in which novel
Willy Loman, the protagonist of the play Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller - A proud believer in the american dream and of success that can be easily achieved this anxious, illusionary traveling salesman becomes increasingly frustrated as he realizes that neither he nor his sons have achieved his dream and consequently his mental state rapidly beings to deteriorate
Elizabethean poets group - Edmund Spencer
Christopher Marlow
Philip Sidney
Surrealism - ANSWER The artists who participated in this 20th century art movement created works specifically designed to express the imagery experiences in dreams and were heavily influenced by the Freudian concept of the unconsious
Romatic period - ANSWER Liszt, Chopin Verdi
Modern period - ANSWER Debussy, Puccini and Rachmaninoff
Baroque - ANSWER Bernini, Rembrandt, and Caravaggio
Billy Wilder - ANSWER The films Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity and Some Like it Hot are directed by
Neil Simon - ANSWER -Barefoot in the park
-the odd couple
-biloxi blues
Don Giovanni - ANSWER Written by Mozart, this opera follows the story of a young ill-mannered nobleman who horribly treats everyone in his life until his loutish ways bring him to a terrifying yet well-deserved end
Gustav Holst - ANSWER Which composer is known for 'The planets' a 7-part orchestral piece that features a movement for each of the 7 extraterrestrial plants know to exist at the time
Group of film directors - ANSWER Jean-Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut
Federico Fellini
Group of playwrights - ANSWER Anton Chekhov
Harold Pinter
Noel Coward
A Colonnade - ANSWER A row of columns that carries an entablature or arches is known as a
Group of novelists - ANSWER Joseph Heller
Leo Tolstoy
Kurt Vonnegut
Desiderius Erasmus - ANSWER In Praise of folly, a 16th century essay that decried the ongoing corruption in the roman catholic church, was written by
type of architecture
line from Othello - ANSWER "I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss"
Quotation from Macbeth - ANSWER "double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble"
Quotation from Julius Caesar - ANSWER "coward die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once"
Rene Descartes - ANSWER Often called the father of modern philosophy, his writing, particularly medications on first philosophy, played a major role in the development of western philosophy since the 17th century. He is also considered one of the major figured in the school of rationalism. The philosopher is
George Gershwin - ANSWER Which 20th century composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue
A tale of two cities - ANSWER Took place amongst the events that led to the french revolution
Oliver Twist - ANSWER Follows the story of a young orphan boy as he struggles to cope with his difficult existence
Originally Described the structure of a 5 act drama but now used to analyze fiction as well - ANSWER Freytag's Pyramid
Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur - ANSWER Romance (novel) later written in prose
Phonic - ANSWER Language is
picaresque novel - ANSWER A genre of prose fiction which deals with the life and adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.
Freytag's Pyramid Stages - ANSWER 1. Introduction/Exposition
- Complication
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Denouement/Conclusion
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck - ANSWER Alternated chapters between the "real" story-The Joads, and peripheral or parallel stories-the Okies and migrants in general
Dynamic - ANSWER Character may change only slightly but it impacts the entire story.
Static - ANSWER Characters that do not change in a significant way as it relates to the story.
Example of Static Character - ANSWER Lord of the Flies-the death by fire of the boy with the mulberry birthmark does not affect story. However, the death of Simon and Piggy does because the reason for their death is central to the novel's theme regarding man's innate evil.
Siddhartha - ANSWER Siddhartha starts off as a very chaste and pious Hindu, but is spiritually unsatisfied. He eventually does find spiritual satisfaction; however, his transition is more one of degree than kind. He is not a wicked man who achieves redemption, nor a righteous man who becomes depraved. It is the progress of his quest, the phases in his journey, which provide structure to the novel.
Stock - ANSWER A character that exists because the plot demands it. Background people.
Style - ANSWER The "how".". involves word choice, word order, balance between narrative and dialog, and narrative point of view.
does not involve plot, character, theme, and setting.
Examples of contemporary short stories that are unrealistic - ANSWER Barth's - Lost in the Funhouse
Allen's - The Kugelmass episode
Point of view - Hemingway - ANSWER Often uses objective 3rd person narrator, portraying scenes almost dramatically, i.e., with a lot of dialogue and little narration, none of which directly reveal the thoughts or feelings of the characters.
POV - Chopin - ANSWER The narrator may be in the 3rd person, but less objective in the presentation of thought and feelings for one or more of the characters, as Chopin does in "The Story of an Hour"
POV-1st person-ANSWER First-person narrator is the least objective point of view, who gives information from the point of view of a singer character and participator in the action. The author may provide discrepancies between the perception of the reader and that of the narrator through the means of such narration.
Why narrator's choice is important - ANSWER Point of view is important in a short story because the narrator shows character and event in ways which affect our understanding of the theme.
Faulkner - A Rose for Emily - ANSWER Unnamed narrator who tells the story out of chronological order and withholds information from the reader. Emily Grierson and her house represent the decay and decadence of the Old South which resisted the invasion of progress from the North.
Mansfield - Bliss - ANSWER The symbol of fertility becomes ironic when Bertha Young belatedly feels sincere and overwhelming desire for her husband. The 3rd person narrator's omniscience is limited to Bertha's thoughts and feelings; otherwise we would have seen husband's infidelity with Miss Fulton
Connor - Good Country People - ANSWER The narrator is broadly omniscient, but the reader is still taken by surprise at the cruelty of the bible salesman who seduces Joy-Hulga. That he steals her artificial leg is perhaps poetic justice, since she-with her numerous degrees-had fully intended to seduce him-just good country people. The title of the story, the names of the characters-Hope-well, Freeman, Joy; the salesman's professions of Christianity, the Bibles hollowed out to hold whiskey and rubbers add to the irony of Mrs. Freeman's concluding remark about the young man: "Some can't be that simple.I know I never could."
Initiation stories - ANSWER Examples of commonly use 1st person narrator. In an attempt to show the subtle differences which can occur in stories which ostensibly have the same point of view and general theme, 3 of these: 1. Capote - A Christmas Memory - Buddy - narrates about him and his 60 year old friend
- Joyce - Araby (Unnanmed) - tells of a boyhood crush he had on the older sister of one of his chums.
- Updike - A & P (Sammy)
Categories of Essays - ANSWER 1. Speculative (White-The ring of time)
- Argumentative (Bacon - Of Love)
- Narrative (Orwell - Shotting an elephant)
- Expository
Example of Structure of a Essay - ANSWER Orwell - Shooting an Elephant. pg.
- Voice
- Style
- Structure
- Thought - ANSWER Elements of Essays (NON-fiction)
Techniques of Satire - ANSWER 1. Irony
Elizabeth Jennings (poem) - ANSWER Happy Families - uses familiar names such as Mrs.Beef and Master Bun
What Emily Dickinson said about why she reads poetry - ANSWER it makes her feel "as if the top of [her] head were taken off!"
Denotation - ANSWER the literal or primary meaning of a word, as distinguished from the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Connotation - ANSWER an idea or feeling that a word evokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Elizabethan Poets - ANSWER saw as a contest between secular love and love of God
Romantic Poets - ANSWER Loved nature and saw god within nature.
-Wordsworth
-Coleridge
-Keats
-Shelley
-Byron
Victorian Poets - ANSWER Saw nature as a threat to mankind and God, being replaced by the profit cash-nexus of the Industrial age.
-Tennyson
-Blake
Modern Poets - ANSWER See God as dead and man as hollow,unwanted,and unsafe in an alien world.
-T.S. Eliot
-Pound
-Yeats
Post-Modern Poets - ANSWER View life as "an accident", a comic/cosmic joke, fragmented, purposeless - their themes will often be political: apartheid, abortion, unjust imprisonment.
Geoffrey Chaucer - ANSWER The father of English poetry
Verse - ANSWER A line of poetry
End Rhyme - ANSWER the rhyming word at the end of the line
Internal Rhyme - ANSWER has at least one rhyming word within the line, often to hurry the rhythm along or to cause it to hang.
Slant Rhyme - ANSWER sometimes referred to as half, off, near or approximate rhyme, often jars a reader who anticipate a perfect rhyme; poets therefore employ such a rhyme in order to convey disillusion.
Masculine Rhyme - ANSWER one-syllable words or the stress falls on the last syllable of polysyllabic words, the effect of which is strength or impact.
Feminine Rhyme - ANSWER The rhyme involves two or more syllables and none of the stresses falls upon the last syllable, the resulting effect is soft and light.
Employed blank verses - ANSWER Elizabethan poets Wyatt and Surrey, Shakespeare, Milton in the great English epic "Paradise Lost"
Symbol in poetry - ANSWER When an object, an image, or a feeling takes on a larger meaning outside of itself, then a poet is employing a symbol, something which stands for something greater.
-Blake "The Chimney Sweeper"
Stock and Conventional Symbols - ANSWER The rose standing for love, The cross standing for suffering and sacrifice.
Anachronism - ANSWER a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
Anapest - ANSWER metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. marked u u/,
Trochee - ANSWER A metrical foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
assonance ANSWER Assonance fast repetition of vowels in a given line of poetry or prosa. "her goodly EYES LIke sapphIres shIning brIght"
Ballad - ANSWER A poem, often intended to be sung, that tells a story.
Ballad Stanza - ANSWER 4 lines rhyming abcd with lines 1 and 3 having 8 syllables and 2 lines and 4 having 6.
Examples of literary ballads - ANSWER Coleridge - Rime of the ancient mariner
Bathos - ANSWER Deliberate anticlimax to make a definite point or draw attention to a falseness.
-Pope's Rape of the Lock
Caesura - ANSWER The pause, marked by punctuation (/) or not within the line. Sometimes the caesura (=cesura) comes at an unexpected point in the rhythm and gives the reader pause for thought.
Couplet - ANSWER Leads us to a closed for of poetry. It is a 2 line stanza that usually rhymes with an end rhyme.
Heroic Couplet - ANSWER A couplet that is firmly end-stopped and written in iambic pentameter. named after translating (to English) great classical or heroic epics such as The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Dactyl ANSWER A metrical foot composed of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
Doggerel ANSWER The rhyme has been so appallingly distorted to fit that not through skill but the opposite.
minnesingers ANSWER The entertainer sang about war, political issues, and love.
joculators ANSWER actors, jesters, dancing mimes, acrobats, poets, and musicians.
a priori truth - ANSWER known independently of experience or "from the first"
analytic truth - ANSWER a truth whose denial is a contradiction
canto - ANSWER analogous to a chapter in a novel, it is a division is a poem
Alexander Pope - ANSWER was to become a master of the heroic couplet, sometimes varying to the 12-syllable line from the old French poetry on Alexander the Great. The line became known as the Alexandrine. Pope gained fame first as a translator of the epics and then went on to write mock-heroic poems like "The rape of the lock".
Allen Ginsberg - A supermarket in california - ANSWER Caused a stir because it didn't read like poetry
Poets that try to match the shape of the poem to the subject - ANSWER -John Hollander "Swan and shadow"
-Dorthi Charles "Contrete cat"
Closed form poetry - ANSWER lines can be counted and shape determined. The poet must adhere to the acknowledged form, in number of lines, rhyme scheme, and.or meter.
Open form - ANSWER evolved from "vers libre" Simply creative, gives a freedom of pattern to the song.
The Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet is structured into 2 groups - ANSWER Eight lines - Octave
Six lines - Sestet
Generally, it follows the pattern of the rhyme scheme of abbaabbacdecde, though there is variation of pattern in sestet. The octave possibly gives a problem or proposition which resolution or answer appears after the turn or shift in the sestet.
The Shakespearean sonnet organizes the lines into 3 groups of 4 lines ANSWER Quatrains and Couplet tworhyming lines. The rhyming scheme is always abab cdcd efef gg then turn or shift can happen at one of three places or leave the resolution or a "twist in the tail" at the end.
Meter - ANSWER the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates the rhythm of a poem.
Sestina - ANSWER A type of closed form, sung by medieval troubadours. gives 6 six-line stanzas, with 6 end-words in a certain order, then repeats those 6 repeated words in any order in a closing tercet.
Hubris - ANSWER In tragic drama, the excessive pride that leads to the fall of a hero.
Enacted - ANSWER Played by an actor or actors free to use the entire stage and such theatrical devices as sets, costumes, etc.
Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie - ANSWER Begins when one of its 4 characters, Tom, steps into the downstage light and addresses the audience directly as though he were the chorus of a much earlier play.
Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman - ANSWER Deals with loss of identity and an inability of a man to come to terms with change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which comprise the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life.
Mimesis - ANSWER The Greek word for imitation, Aristotle believed art should create this
Mimetic theory - ANSWER An effective imitation is one that represents natural objects and actions in as lifelike a way as possible.
expressive theory - ANSWER A variation allowing the artist a freer, more individual stylised appraoach
Though often considered a work for children, the 19th century classic continues to amuse and amaze adults interested in puzzles, poems and hidden meanings. - ANSWER Alice in Wonderland
Following are a set of comic monologues and bawdy stories by individuals on a common mission - ANSWER The Canterbury Tales
Generally recognized as the most accurate literal transcription of American soldiers in combat - ANSWER Crane's Red Badge of Courage
19th century novel concludes with a hanging at sea - ANSWER Melville's Billy Budd
Modern novel depicts a new England prep school as America is about to go to war - ANSWER A separate peace
Some of Shakespeare's sonnets are presumed to be written to someone critics call - ANSWER Dark Lady
What are the rules for a vilanelle? - ANSWER a fixed form with 5 tercets and a quatrain
An aubade is a poem that greets - ANSWER the dawn
The minimalists attempted to - ANSWER -Cloak shape and form from everything but its most "simple, pure expression."
- Eliminate all evidence of the human hand having had anything to do with the creation of their work
- Imitate industrial production in the slickness and chill of their work
Andy Warhol, the first artist to make proper use of the mass media to such great effect, didn't work in the following media - ANSWER Television, film, sculpture
Botticelli - ANSWER Birth of Venus, cool, simple faces, people flying, feet not firm on the ground. Early Renaissance.
Jacques-Louis David - ANSWER Napoleon on Horseback, Death of Socrates, Napoleon in his study, (lots of Napoleon), darker tones. Neoclassical.
Cezanne - ANSWER French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Works include:
Mont Sainte Victoire seen from Bellevue(1885),
Apothéose de Delacroix (1890-1894),
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (1893-1894),
The Card Players (1890-1895),
The Bathers (1898-1905).
Renoir - ANSWER Painted On the Terrace (lady in orange hat), Luncheon, By the Water, bright vibrant oils, people, very impressionist
Rembrandt - ANSWER Baroque Period, Dutch Golden Age, Self Portraits, Christ in Storms, dramatic, emotion and movement, often religious theme.
Rubens - ANSWER Westphalia, Reuben and Elizabeth in the Honeysuckle, movement, color and counter reformation altar pieces, mythology. Baroque Period.
Amedeo Modigliani - ANSWER Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures. Post-Impressionist. Works Include:
Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress,
Madame Pompadour,
Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl.
Andrew Wyeth - ANSWER Realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.
Known for:
Christina's World, 1949,
Braids, 1979.
Goya - ANSWER Spanish romantic painter. Was the court painter to the Spanish Crown. Works include:
The Third of May 1808, 1814,
