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English IV
2008 Midterm Review
| 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. |
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