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Poe.
Detective story.
Romantic vs. Mathematical (Realist)
Romantic wins |
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Science Fiction
Futuristic scientific developments fuel the plot. Like Star Trek |
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| 7 tenets of existentialism |
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1. Focus on concrete individual existence
2. Focus on individual freedom
3. Emphasis on choice
4. Committed once you choose and must take responsibility for your actions
5. Accompanying dread or anxiety which can lead to alienation
6. The look: Something has happened and you stare at another person and try to fix them with your gaze
7. Bad faith: Lying to yourself and believing it |
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| Clumsy, weak, inept, and forgetful |
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Id: pleasure principle
Ego: reality principle
Superego: conscience
Manifest: what you see in a dream
Latent: the meaning of the dream
Condensation, representation, displacement |
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1. Discovered in pain or horror
2. Contains folly (foolish actions)
3. Skeptical irony involved
4. Author maintains distance
5. You don't sympathize with characters
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
"The Lottery" |
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1. Emotion over reason
2. Imagination
3. Interest in the past
4. Nature
5. Anti-hero |
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1. Experimental in form
2. Pervasively ironic
3. Symbolistic
4. Focuses on psychological
5. Mythic underlying structure
6. Anti-bourgeois/subversive of middle class values
7. Self-reflexive (About itself) |
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1. Atropos: She carries the shears and cuts the thread of life.
2. Clotho: She carries the spindle and spins the thread of life.
3. Lachesis: She carries the scroll and determines the length of the thread of life. |
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Hint: CAP HR
Compassion
Aversion
Panic
Hope
Resentment |
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1. Exposition or introduction
2. Complication and development
3. Crisis or climax
4. Falling action
5. Denouement, resolution, or catastrophe
"Metamorphosis" starts at the climax. For Grete it's rising action, and for Gregor it's falling action. |
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| Relation between some single word and the overall meaning of the situation and action. |
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| events of the story told as they appear to one or more people (characters, narrator, or author) |
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| emotional and intellectual force generated by disparate potentials |
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| fiction between a short story and a novel |
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| presentation of appearance or setting |
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| the speed at which the author develops a story |
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| the sense that one is morally and emotionally involved |
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| the shape and consistency of a story |
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| metaphorical...the changes in the relative position of the characters |
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| conflict is decided and struggle is concluded |
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| the phases of action within a story that are linked together by a chain of causal relations |
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| guide, direct, and entice the imagination of the reader instead of using a direct statement |
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| distinction between author and characters. separates adventure from the reader's experience |
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| consistency of various parts of a story |
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| aspect of literary art established by earlier and repeated usage in how language represents experience |
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| unifying point or meaning of a story |
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| statement that appears to contradict or be inconsistent with common sense |
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| instructive point of a story |
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| effect or illusion of sharing characters' experience |
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| prevailing feeling of a story generated by language, setting, and quality of action |
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| tone of voice in which the speaker relates an episode |
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