| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Who is the author of Lord of the Flies? | William Golding |
| Who are the main characters in Lord of the Flies? | Piggy, |
| What is the theme of Lord of the Flies? | need |
| Important event 1, Lord of the Flies | need |
| Important event 2, Lord of the Flies | need |
| Important event 1, A Separate Peace | need |
| Important event 2, A Separate Peace | need |
| What is the theme of A Separate Peace? | need |
| Who are the main characters in A Separate Peace? | need info |
| Who is the author of A Separate Peace? | John Knowles |
| Important event 1, The Secret Sharer | need |
| Important event 2, The Secret Sharer | need |
| What is the theme of The Secret Sharer? | need |
| Who are the main characters in The Secret Sharer? | need info |
| Who is the author of The Secret Sharer? | Joseph Conrad |
| Important event 1, Ladies' Detective Agency | need |
| Important event 2, Ladies' Detective Agency | need |
| What is the theme of Ladies' Detective Agency? | need |
| Who are the main characters in Ladies' Detective Agency? | need info |
| Who is the author of Ladies' Detective Agency? | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Important event 1, Oedipus | need |
| Important event 2, Oedipus | need |
| What is the theme of Oedipus? | need |
| Who are the main characters in Oedipus? | need info |
| Who is the author of Oedipus? | Sophocles |
| Skene | Dressing room for actors |
| parados | chorus makes it's first entrance and gives its perspective on what the audience has learned in the prologue |
| Exodus | A chorus' exit from a play/tragedy |
| Sophecles | Added a third speaking character |
| hubris | Excessive pride or self-confidence that leads a protagonist to disregard a divine warning or to violate an important moral law. In tragedies, hubris is a very common form of hamartia |
| Chorus | Conscience of the people |
| Irony | A contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen |
| Tragedy | A quality of a play's action that involves a struggle and the downfall of a character(s) |
| Tragic Flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero |
| Tragic Hero | A character who experiences a fall from glory into suffering |
| Deus ex machina | God introduced by means of a crane |
| Catharsis | Working out through emotions |
| Hamartia | Error that brings about misfortune for the protagonist. May be internal weakness or a mistake of the character because of external control. |
| Paradox | Statements seems to contradict then turns out to make sense. Useful in poetry because it grasps the attention of the reader. |
| ambiguity | a technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. |
| Aeschylus | ____'s three most famous plays centered on the murder of Agamemnon, the king who had led the Greeks against Troy. |
| Aeschylus | writer of tragedies; wrote Oresteia; proposed the idea of having two actors and using props and costumes |
| Euripides | writer, used regular people instead of Gods, and tried to answer real life questions in playwrite |
| Euripides | Realist writer who showed the pain and misery of war in his tragedies. |
| Euripides | a play writer who was a realist and questioned many old beliefs and ideas |
| Aristotle | philosopher who wrote more than 200 books from politics to astronomy; made Lyceum and Assembly, two schools |
| masks | All of the actors and Chorus members wore these |
| Masks | These were worn to inform the audience which characters were on stage; had large protruding lips which acted as megaphones on the stage |
| Dionysus is the god of | Wine |
| Great Dionysia Festival | a spring festival in which the main attraction was theater; it included the "exultation of the soul" and "dancing and screaming" |
| prologue | dialogue spoken by 1 or 2 characters that gives detail on everything leading up to play, believed to be invented by Euripides, foreshadows, spoken before chorus enters, historical or mythological background, became Greek custom |
| novella | story that is between a short story and a novel |
| annotate | take notes |
| alienation | to separate |
| literary criticism | written by someone else |
| existentialism | belief that the world is rational |
| drama | serious story |
| motif | repeated idea |
| Doppelganger | Also known as The Double.) A literary technique by which a character duplicated (usually in the form of an alter ego, though sometimes as a ghostly counterpart) or divided into two distinct, usually opposite personalities. The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, and indicates a growing awareness among authors that the "self" is really a composite of many "selves." |
| collective unconscious | Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history |
| persona | Literally, a persona is a mask. In literature, a persona is a speaker created by a writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem. A persona is not a character in a story or narrative, nor does a persona necessarily directly reflect the author's personal voice. A persona is a separate self, created by and distinct from the author, through which he or she speaks. |
| Shadow | your personal dark side |
| introvert | reflective life, a person whose motives and actions are directed inward |
| extrovert | a person whose motives and actions are directed outward |
| Night Journey | Looking back on your life |
| Analyze, don't ______ | moralize |
| To "moralize" is to ___ | tell the characters what they "should do" |
| What tense should you stay in when you write? | present |
| MLA stands for | Modern Language Association |
| correct citation form | (name, page). |
| An essay's title should be (original/commonplace) | original |
| An essay's title should be (in quotes/no quotes) | no quotes |
| An essay's title should (underlined/not underlined) | not underlined |
| An essay's title should be (bolded/not bolded) | not bolded |
| An essay's title should be in (enlarged font/12-point font) | 12-point font |
| hook | statement in the intro paragraph to grab the reaer's interest |
| thesis | the main point that you are proving |
| A topic sentence should be ______: | clear, or directional |
| What does TLQ stand for?: | transition / lead-in/quote |
| A quote must be introduced with: | TLQ |
| Concrete details are ___: | proof for your point |
| Use extended commentary to: | interpret, explain, argue or reveal feeling |
| conclusion: | Final paragraph to tie up all thoughts |
| If this sentence were in an essay, what error would it have? "The narrator doesn't explain his meaning." | use of a contraction |
| What is a contraction? | a word shortened with an apostrophe (can't, won't) |
| Diction is: | word choice |
| You should use ____ diction in your writing. | adult |
| You create your style by ___: | putting words together |
| personal essay | essay that discuses your own thoughts and experiences |
| If this sentence were in an essay, what error would it have? "You can not tell what the narrator's meaning is." | use of second person |
| What is "second person"? | using "you" or "your" in a formal literary analysis |
| If this sentence were in an essay, what error would it have? "I can not tell what the narrator's meaning is." | use of first person |
| What is "first person"? | using "I" or "me" in a formal literary analysis |
| When is it okay to use I, you, me, your, etc in an essay? | If it's a personal essay |
| Titles of novels, newspapers, and magazines should be | underlined |
| Titles of short stories, artiles, poems, and chapters should be | in quotes |
| What is a prompt? | The teacher's question |
| What is a rubric? | The teacher's grading quidelines |
| anima | female side of the story |
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