Ancient Literature
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Created by:
cbhrbooth on October 3, 2011
Subjects:
literature, ancient literature
Description:
Tapestry of Grace, Year 1, Unit 1 literature, rhetoric
Classes:
TOG Y1 Literature Busler, Tapestry of Grace Year 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 A type of writing in the Bible. | Theological or moral exposition: |
| A type of writing in the Bible | History (historical): |
| A type of writing in the Bible | Literature (literary): |
| The purpose of Historical writing | To "tell us what happened"; to convey documentary information. |
| The purpose of Theological or moral exposition | To "convey theological or moral information" |
| The purpose of literary writing | to tell us what always happens, or "what happens universally" |
| What is characteristic of exposition? | Uses strongly conceptual language, uses abstract vocabulary, and appeals to our "intellectual grasp of propositional truth." |
| What is characteristic of historical writing? | Puts the facts in a moral and spirtual framework that interprets the facts. |
| What is characteristic of literary writing? | Appeals primarily to our imagination; it seeks to "recreate the actual scene" and wants us to "imaginarily experience" it. |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Rooted in observable reality |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Driven by an impulse to give circumstantial and factual basis to stories |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Tends to be concrete, vivid, and specific |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Tends to portray human behavior in unidealized ways - paints us "warts and all" |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Focuses on common experience and characters of average social standing |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Stresses individuality |
| A way the biblical writers create a quality of literary realism in the Bible | Stresses common, everyday events |
| What religious message does literary realism help support? | The realism of the Bible insists that the reader recognize "supernatural" events as well as ordinary "empirical" (based on the five senses) experience as part of reality. |
| A characteristic of literary romance. | Full of mystery, the supernatural, and the heroic. |
| A characteristic of literary romance. | Tend to demonstrate poetic justice, and have happy endings. |
| What religious message does romance support in the Bible? | Reinforces the religious message that earth and heaven are not separate. Demonstrates the ways in which earthly life opens up into a spirtitual world. |
| tragedy | the story of fall |
| anti-romance | the story of winter |
| comedy | the story of spring |
| romance | the story of summer |
| component of One Story of Literature | tragedy |
| component of One Story of Literature | anti-romance |
| component of One Story of Literature | comedy |
| component of One Story of Literature | romance |
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