World Literature FINAL EXAM Study Guide – Flashcards
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Iliad (author)
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Homer
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Metamorphosis (author)
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The Song of Roland (author)
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Unknown
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All Quiet on the Western Front (author)
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Erich Remarque
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich (author)
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Leo Tolstoy
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Hedda Gabler (playwright)
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Henrik Ibsen
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Medea (author)
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Oral Tradition/ Lyric Poetry
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Candide (author)
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Voltaire
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Koran (author)
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Muhammad
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One Thousand & One Nights (author)
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Collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic
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Things fall Apart (author)
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Chinua Achebe
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Merchant of Venice (playwright)
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Shakespeare
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Proem
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Beginning of the poem (first 8 lines)
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Epic Poem
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Iliad; form and content; Hero-in battle/comradeship motif
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Each line has 6 feet and 1 stressed, 2 stressed
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Aristeia
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"aria"; warriors finest moment
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Folk Epic
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Sung or chanted (The Song of Roland)
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Declamentory
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Over exaggerated gestures in a play
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Epiphanatic
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Ecstatic vision of brief single moments of intensity
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Tragic Vision
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Doubt
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Irony
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Weight of suffering/eventual death; limits of reason, order, justice in human & divine relationships
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Lyric Poetry
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Book of Songs
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Bildungsroman
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Novel of education
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Picaresque
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Rogue-varying adventures
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Deism
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Depersonalized deity who put the universe in order
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Catharsis
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Purification & purgation of emotions
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Media
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Language: verses, spoken and narrated; Melody: words sung, movement of chorus
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Manner
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Spectacle: public, performance
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Objects
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Plot: combination of the events Character; Thought: theme, the point or opinion
