Mid-term

Question 1

New Criticism

Answer 1

Focus on the formal elements of a work- its language, structure, and tone.
Only one message.
No feelings.

Question 2

Affective

Answer 2

Emote

Question 3

Intentional

Answer 3

Divine what the author is talking about

Question 4

Archetype

Answer 4

A symbol that everyone sees the same way

Question 5

Complexities-

Answer 5

Ironies
Tension
Ambiguities
Paradox

Question 6

Ironies

Answer 6

Something we do not expect

Question 7

Tensions

Answer 7

Opposites

Question 8

Ambiguities

Answer 8

Something with more than one meaning

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

It only makes sense within the context of the story.

Question 10

Fiction

Answer 10

A creative work that is not based in reality and is instead made up from the imagination of the author

Question 11

What we look for in fiction?

Answer 11

Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

Question 12

Exposition

Answer 12

Into to the story. Giving context (not always at the beginning)

Question 13

Rising action

Answer 13

Build up to the climax

Question 14

Climax

Answer 14

Key event

Question 15

Falling action

Answer 15

Result of climax. Bring you to the resolution. Shows us how the story changes.

Question 16

Resolution

Answer 16

Message of the story

Question 17

Reader-response

Answer 17

Focuses its attention on the reader rather than the work itself. Describes what goes on in the reader’s mind during the process of reading a text.

Question 18

Reader-response strategies

Answer 18

1. Move through text super slow motion.
2. Describe your own response moving through the text.
3. React to the text, embracing and expressing the subjective and personal response it engenders.

Question 19

Where does the meaning of the text land? With the reader or the text?

Answer 19

In between/ in the middle of

Question 20

Fallacies

Answer 20

An error in reasoning that occurs when an argument is illogical or when irrelevant points are made without evidence.
Effective and intentional

Question 21

Feminist criticism

Answer 21

Seek to correct or supplement what they regard as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.

Question 22

Feminist criticism strategies

Answer 22

1. Consider the gender of the author
2. Does the literature undermine or reinforce the stereotypes placed on men and women?
3. Imagine yourself as a women reading the works.

Question 23

What criticism is focuses on gender roles?

Answer 23

Feminist criticism

Question 24

Poetry

Answer 24

Oldest type of literature. Taking ideas and forms into words. Not a lot of descriptions.

Question 25

Sounds

Answer 25

Important b/c poetry is supposed to be read out loud.

Question 26

Alliteration

Answer 26

Reputation of continents

Question 27

Onomatopoeia

Answer 27

Use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes.

Question 28

Line lengths

Answer 28

Monometer= 1 foot Diameter= 2 feet Trimeter= 3 feet Tetrameter= 4 feet Pentameter= 5 feet Hexameter= 6 feet Hepameter= 7 feet Octameter= 8 feet

Question 29

Rhythms

Answer 29

A term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

Question 30

Sonnets

Answer 30

A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. Two forms= Italian and English

Question 31

Italian sonnet

Answer 31

Divided into an octave and a sestet.

Question 32

English sonnet

Answer 32

4-4-4-2

Question 33

Volta

Answer 33

Dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.

Question 34

Symbols

Answer 34

A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.