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Praxis II 0049 I
Study of Literature - Periods and Fiction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| traditional literature | ancient stories; set form |
| Types of traditional literature I | parable didactic -teaches lesson fable - nonrealistic teaches story fairy tale - magic;idealistic;pattern; stereotyping |
| Types of trad. lit II | Folk tales - told in native language;entertain;(noodlehead - funny) myths - explains things legends - exaggerated real person places things |
| Movements in lit | romanticism; realism; symbolism; modernism; surrealism; existensialism |
| Romanticism 18th & 19th C | imagination; fancy; freedom; emotion; wildness; beauty of nature; individual rights; pastoral life; noble common man |
| romanticism writers | W. Wordsworth; Lord Byron, PB Shelley; v. Hugo |
| Realism 19th C reaction to romance | Novel- key; true to life; everyday life |
| Realism writers | Balzac; Gearge Eliot; Dostoevsky; Tolstoy |
| Symbolism Fr. 19th C- reacted to realism | evoke indirectly and symboliccaly; beyond the 5 senses |
| Symbolism writers | Baudelaire; Rimbauld; Yeats; Joyce; TS Eliot |
| Modernism early 20th C | experimentation; knoewledge is not absolute |
| Modern writers | Einstien; Planck's quantum theory; Frued unconscious |
| Surrealism - 20th C | surprise; juxtaposition; free peole from false rationality and restrictive customs and structures |
| surrealism writers | Breton; Frued free association |
| Existentialism - 19th & 20th C | individual freedom; freedom of choice; |
| Existensialism writers | Kierkegard; pascal; Nietsche; heidegger; Sartre |
| Types of Modern Literature | novels; romance; confession; manippean satire |
| Novels | realistic coul/have happen/ed |
| Romance | idealized life in which character, setting, plot beyond real life experieice; fantasy |
| Confession | 1 character reveals thoughts and ideas (round character; |
| Confession writers | laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Manippean Satire | reader sees world through the eyes of another |
| manippean Writer | Dahl in Charlie and the choc fact. |
| Literary elements | tone; figurative language; allusion; diction; voice; pt o view; style; plot; setting; character; theme |
| Tone | author's attitude; condescension; didactic; irony; humorl; sentimentality |
| Figurative language | simile; metaphor; analogy; personification; cliches |
| Allusion | reference to hist or literay events people generally known |
| Diction | choice of words |
| Voice | writers individual writing style combining use of dialogue, diction, alliteration (fingerprint of author) |
| Point of View | first second third |
| omniscient pt o view | narratoe knows all about characters and shares everything w/ reader |
| limited omniecent pt o v | doesn't share everything |
| objective pt o v | simply tells what is happening |
| Style | devices that make words flow, enhance meaning, and make writing appealing |
| denotation | precise meaning |
| connotation | impression or feeling a word gives |
| alliteration | repeat initial consonant sound |
| consonance | repeat sound at end of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | word represents sound |
| ryhtym | flow or cadence of words |
| imagery | descriptive language designed to create a mental image for reader |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| understatement | underplays something |
| wordplay | witty word use : pun 92 menaings of word play off each other) |
| symbolism | use one person place or thing to represent another |
| plot | definite order, conflict, pattern, two types |
| plot order of | chronological, sequential, or random; flashback & foreshadowing |
| plot conflict in | internal or external |
| plot patterns of action | suspense (uncertainty; cliffhangers); foreshadowing; sensationalism 9emotionally charged; |
| plot climax | highest point of interest in book (false climax) |
| plot denoument | ending of book; open=unanswered; closed answered |
| plot progressive | read entire book to find answers |
| plot episodic | each chapter related but a whole in itself |
| Setting | time and place; backdrop - not essential to story; integral - essential to plot |
| round character | fully described or revealed |
| flat character | not fully developed or described |
| dynamic character | developing or changing |
| static character | unchanging |
| character protagonist | positive force |
| character antagonist | negative force |
| Theme | main idea or central meaning |
| Three main themes in traditionla lit | survival of the unfittest: picaresqur(journey) theme; reversal of fortune |
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