| Question |
Answer |
| radical change of novel in temporal whatever the hell (bakhtin) |
Past is presented as complex and unknowable like the present. |
| maximal contact with the present in a novel (Bakhtin) |
there is continuity between past and present |
| comic familiarization with the image of man (bakhtin) |
you can see contradictions, so it's real and funny. |
| dynamic authenticity (Bakhtin) |
character can develop which is realistic |
| man is inexhaustible (Bakhtin) |
he's infinitely explorable. |
| purpose of poetry (Sidney) |
an art of imitation to teach and delight |
| Purpose of poetry (Sidney) |
virtuous action or to teach and delight |
| Poetry vs. philosophy and history |
philosophy is lamed by lack of real example and history is tied to reality, not ideals. So poetry, having both precept and example, is better. |
| poetry and nature |
the poet either improves nature or brings entirely new nature into being. |
| poetry and lying |
the poet affirms nothing and therefore never lies. |
| mimesis |
imitation |
| complex plot |
is accompanied by reversal, recognition, or both |
| reversal (aristotle) |
the protagonist's actions produce an effect that is the opposite of his intentions |
| anagnorisis |
recognition of one's tragic fate |
| Peripeteia |
the action that all the proceeding events stem from, like the peak of a hill after which the rock rolls down. |
| sonnet forms |
Spenserian, English, Italian |
| Spenserian sonnet |
ababbcbccdcdee |
| English sonnet |
ababcdcdefefgg |
| Italian sonnet |
abbaabba and then so forth |
| iambic |
us |
| trochee |
su |
| anapest |
uus |
| dactyl |
suu |
| spondee |
ss |
| amphibrach |
usu |
| assonance |
internal rhyming, repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance |
repetition of consonant sounds |
| direct discourse |
is quoted and attributed |
| indirect discourse |
is attributed but not quoted |
| free indirect discourse |
is neither quoted nor attributed. |