Flashcards in Final Exam Deck (18)
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Tragedy should leave us feeling...
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Pity (for excess undeserved suffering)
Fear (we are also neither fully good nor fully bad, and are capable of making a mistake that leads to our suffering)
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Hamartia
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of the hero or heroine
They make an *error in judgement that is related to virtue* and thus triggers an action that causes intense suffering of themselves and others
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Anagnorisis
Moment of recognition or clarity experienced by tragic protagonist
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Connections between Doubt and the other previous plays
Doubt is the beginning of new awareness/growth
Antigone: doubt about Creon's decision - he doubts his own certainty and what he should be doing
Red: old world vs new world - doubt that the new generation will understand his art
Seeds: audience/playwright doubts faith in Percy - similar "how do I know what I know" question
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3 ways doubt is created in the play
Evasion/Euphemism
Irony/Interpretation
Mrs Mueller and grey morality
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Italian Sonnet
Also called Petrarchan Sonnet
Octave and sestet
Rhyme pattern: abba abba cde cde
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English Sonnet
Shakespearean Sonnet
4 parts: 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
Rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
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Tenor
The subject of the metaphor
The thing you're actually talking about
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Vehicle
The object whose attributes are borrowed in a metaphor
The image you're drawing
The fake thing
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Blason
Catalogue of parts of a woman usually
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Synecdoche
Part represents the whole
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Dactyllic
DUM da da
Ex: Merrily, metrical
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Anapestic
da da DUM
Ex: seventeen
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Rhythmn
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
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Meter
Underlying rhythmic pattern of the line
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Scansion
A means of describing the rhythms of poetry
Divide the line into feet, count feel, mark stressed and unstressed syllables
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Double Dactyl poem
2 stanzas, each has 4 lines
First 3 lines are dactyllic dimeter (2 dactyls)
Last line has a trochaic and iambic foot
2 stanzas rhyme on last lines
First line is made up words
Second line is the subject of the poem
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