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Aristotles 3 type of friendship

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Utility
Pleasure
Goodness

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Friendship of utility

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Both ppl derive some benefit from the other
Easily dissolved
Determined by usefulness of person

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Friendship of pleasure

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Both ppl are drawn to each other’s qualities
Linked to young ppl bc they are seeking immediate gratification or pleasure out of the friendship
Usually short lived

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Friendship of goodness

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Both admire each other’s goodness and help one another strive for goodness
Highest level of friendship (like family)
Long lasting

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What is theme

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NOT SUBJECT

Idea on which a story is built

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Universal theme

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Theme that come up again and again in literature

Deal with basic human concerns

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How to find theme

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Conflict helps reveal theme
Titles give clues
Theme applies to the entire work

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An authors style

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The manner of expression of a particular writer produced by: choice of words, sentence structure, use of literary devices, rhythm

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Vignette

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Style of HonMS
Short, well written sketch or descriptive scene
Doesn’t have a plot, but reveals some elements to the story
Description of scene/character is important

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Direct characterization

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Narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is

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Indirect characterization

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Author shows things that reveal characters personality

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5 methods of indirect characterization

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Looks (what you can infer based on their looks)
Speech
Relationships
Actions 
Thoughts
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Bildungsroman

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A novel depicting someone’s growth from childhood to maturity
Protagonist (usually pubescent) grows, learns, and changes in order to take their place in the world
Coming of age story

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FOIL characters

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Two characters who contrast each other in order to highlight each other’s differences

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - what is it

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A theory by Abraham Maslow (psychologist) about what is needed for personal growth

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs- levels

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Self actualization
Esteem
Love/belonging
Safety
Physiological
17
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Three categories of Shakespeare’s plays

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Tragedy
Comedy
History

18
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Why are Shakespeare’s Works so popular

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Bc he wrote about human nature and how people behave

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What was Shakespeare before he wrote plays and poems

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Actor

20
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How many of Shakespeare’s plays are considered tragedies

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10

21
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Soliloquy

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Speeches made by a character when they’re by themselves

When they think out loud

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Purpose of soliloquy

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To help the audience understand the main character

23
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Three characteristics of a tragic hero

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Man of high rank
Put into a difficult situation he must resolve
Bad luck and bad decisions lead to death

24
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Where is R+j set

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Verona, Italy

25
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How do his tragedies usually end

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Most characters are dead ; others are left to start again

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In most of his tragedies, what feeling is left

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Some good can come from terrible suffering

27
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Review Romeo and Juliet time line

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Last page of lit notes

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Dramatic irony

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When audience knows something that the characters don’t

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Tragedy

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a written work with a sad ending where the hero either dies or ends up mentally, emotionally, or spiritually devastated beyond recovery

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Aside

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when a character is talking about something but not all characters can hear

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Couplet

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2 lines of poetry, with the same meter, founded by a rhyme

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Pun

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wordplay (humor)

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Allusion

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

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Situational irony

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When the opposite of what’s expected happens

35
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Verbal irony

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The opposite meaning of what is said (sarcasm)

36
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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Ex: Tragic comedy, in act 1 scene 1 when Romeo is sad over rosaline and Says things like “loving hate, heavy lightness, cold fire, sick health,etc”

37
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Romeo and Juliet main ideas

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Look in Notes

38
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LoTF main ideas

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Look in Notes

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