Literature Review

Question 1

What is phathetic fallacy?

Answer 1

It is a show of emotion through the natural world.

Question 2

What genre of poetry includes mourninig?

Answer 2

Elegy

Question 3

What is an example of an elegy that we have read?

Answer 3

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question 4

Who wrote Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?

Answer 4

Walt Whitman

Question 5

What was the form of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?

Answer 5

Free Verse

Question 6

What is the difference between Free Verse and Blank Verse?

Answer 6

Blank Verse holds no specfic rhyme scheme but has a meter while Free Verse has no spefic petter in rhyme or meter.

Question 7

Is this line Blank or Free Verse: “I thought once how Theocratetas had sung”?

Answer 7

Blank Verse

It is the first line of a sonnet.

Question 8

Who was the first person to write an English Sonnet?

Answer 8

Thomas Wyatt

He started by translating some of Petrach’s sonnetts to english!

Question 9

What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?

Answer 9

Ocatave, Volta, Sestet

Question 10

What is the structure of an Italian Sonnet?

Answer 10

Ocatave, Volta, Sestet

Question 11

What is the structure of an English Sonnet?

Answer 11

3 Quatrains and a Couplet

Question 12

What is the rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet?

Answer 12

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Question 13

What period/century was the english sonnet introduced?

Answer 13

Early Modern Period(Renaissance) - Sixteenth Century

Question 14

What century was Shakespere mostly writing in?

Answer 14

Seventeenth Century

Question 15

When was Odysseus’s moment of aristeia?

Answer 15

When Odysseus killed the suitors.

Question 16

What is deus ex machina?

Answer 16

A quick-happy ending.

In ancient greek it was shown as divine intervention.

God comes from a machine.

Question 17

What genre does ‘in medias res’ come from?

Answer 17

Epics

Question 18

What is the meaning of in medias res?

Answer 18

Starting in the middle of story.

Usually showing the rest of the story through flashbacks

Question 19

Who coined the term in medias res and in what work of literature?

Answer 19

Horace in his theory of Ars Poetics.

Question 20

What broad field of theory are Ars Poetics and Poetics included in?

Poetics is by Aristotle

Answer 20

Aesthetics

Question 21

What were 2 centeral concepts form Nietzhe’s Birth of Tragedy?

Answer 21

Apollonian: Order, structure, and law
Dionysian: Escatsy, crazy, and drunk

Based off of the Greek Gods, Apollo and Dionysus

Question 22

Who wrote Antigone?

Answer 22

Sophocles

Question 23

Where was Antigone written?

Answer 23

Aethens

Question 24

Who are other big playwrites from Aethens similar to Sophocles?

Answer 24

Aeschylus and Euripides

Question 25

What century was Antigone written?

Answer 25

5th Century B.C.

Question 26

What play did Aeschylus write?

Answer 26

Oresteia

Question 27

Why is Oresteia important within the Odyssey?

Answer 27

Telemachus is very similar to Oreste; The story of Oreste is brought up a few times to Telemachus.

Question 28

How many plays are in the Oresteia?

Answer 28

Three, making it a trilogy. | One of the only ones left from that time

Question 29

What is one of the first moments of anagnorisis towards Odysseus when he returns home?

Answer 29

When Argos sees through Odysseus's disguise. | Argos is the dog.

Question 30

What is the meaning of Pastoral?

Answer 30

Genre about life in the country side/nature

Question 31

What moment of pastoral eutopia is shown in the Odyssey?

Answer 31

Phaeacia | Also known as Scheria.

Question 32

Who does Odysseus first meet in Phaeacia?

Answer 32

Nausicaa

Question 33

Who is the king of Phaeacia?

Answer 33

Alcinous

Question 34

What principal do the people of Phaeacia abide by?

Answer 34

Xenia | The concpet of hospitaltiy between the guest and the host.

Question 35

Where was Odysseus before he reached in Phaeacia?

Answer 35

Ogygia | Calypso's Island

Question 36

How long was Odysseus in Ogygia?

Answer 36

7 years

Question 37

What is the name of Circe's island?

Answer 37

Aeaea

Question 38

How long was Odysseus in Aeaea?

Answer 38

1 year

Question 39

What language was the Odyssey written in?

Answer 39

Ancient Greek

Question 40

What language does Shakespere write in?

Answer 40

Early Modern English

Question 41

How would one know whether a word in written in second person singlar?

Answer 41

There would be a 'st' at the end.

Question 42

How would one know whether a word in written in third person plural?

Answer 42

There would be no change.

Question 43

What is the difference between 'thou' and 'you'?

Answer 43

Thou is in-formal singular while you is formal and plural.

Question 44

What is a signifier with multiple meanings?

Answer 44

Symbol

Question 45

Who were leading people in American Romanticsm?

Answer 45

Emerson, Dickenson, Hawthorne

Question 46

What century was American Romanticsm?

Answer 46

Second Half of the 19th century