ENGl 310
Clemson U
EK Sparks
Spring 2004
Daily Glossary
Day 2: Poetry
Analysis | Day 3: SOunds of Poetry | Day
4: New Criticism| Day
7: Paper Wiritng | Day 8: Sonnets and Villanelles
| Day 11: Reading Fiction |||| Day
17: Intro to Literary Research | Day 20: The
Hero's Quest | Day 21: The Female Hero | Day
22: Intro to Drama | Day 24: Oedipus |
Merriam
Webster 10th Collegiate
Gale
Resource Group On-Line Glossary
Literary
Terms (Mostly Poetry)
Day 2: Begin Poetry Analysis
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response vs. interpretation
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The New Criticism
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stock responses -- cliched
interpretations that don't really look at the work in question, just apply
stereotypical notions.
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doggerel -- trashy verse that
isn't REAL poetry because it is so dumb, cliched -- also characterised
by simple rhythm and obvious rhyme
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paraphrase
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speaker
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verse
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theme
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lyric
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epic
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diction
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denotation
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connotation
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personna
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ambiguity
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syntax
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tone
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image
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figure of speech
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similie
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metaphor
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synecdoche -- part for the whole
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metonomy -- something nearby,
closely asociated
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personification
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apostrophe
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hyperbole
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paradox
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oxymoron
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symbol
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allegory -- work in which
one thingr represents another,
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didactic -- teaching a lesson
Day 3: The
Sounds of Poetry (Meyers 251-65)
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ballad
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onomatopoeia
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alliteration -- Repition of
consonant sounds at the beginning of words
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assonance -- repetiton of vowel
sounds in the middle of words
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consonance -- repetition
of consonant sounds at the end of words, orfollowing differnt vowels
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eye rhyme
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end rhyme
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internal rhyme
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masculine/ feminine rhyme
==
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masculine rhyme is one syllable,
at the end, with strong vowel: boy toy; may day, spring fling
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feminine rhyme is more complicated,
unstressed syllabus follwing stressed syllable: butter clutter;
bnding bending, bedward, deadward
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off rhyme
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meter
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prosody
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scansion
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rising vs falling meters
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iambic pentameter
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I AM bic -`
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TRO chee `-
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AN A pest --`
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DAC tic ic `--
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blank verse
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cesura
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enjambment
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Day 11: Reading Fiction
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Gliederung -- German: outline,
skeleton, anatomy
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plot (Chronological; non-chronological;
reverse)
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in medias res
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flashback
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exposition
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rising action, complication,
resolution
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conflict
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foreshadwing
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formula fiction
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Character
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protagonist, hero, anti-hero
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heroine
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antagonist
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motivations
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dynmaic vs. static
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foil
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stock characters
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flat vs. round characters
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eiron
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Alazon
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buffoon
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agroikos
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Point of View
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narrator vs. author
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omniscient narrator
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editorial omniscience vs. neutral
onminiscience
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limited omniscinet narrrator
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stram of consciousness
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objective point of view
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first-person narrator
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unreliable narrator
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naive narrator
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Symbol
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conventional symbols
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literary symbols
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allegory
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Style
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Irony
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verbal irony
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sarcasm
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situational irony
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dramatic irony
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Theme
Day 17: Intro
to Literary Research
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Definitive edition:
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Scholarly editions:
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Holograph or manuscript edition:
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Definitive biographies
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Primary Bibliography:
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Secondary Bibliography
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Other Reference Sources
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Casebooks
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Norton Critical Editions
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Twayne Books
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Twayne MasterWorks
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MLA Approaches to Teaching
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Twentieth Century Views
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New Century Views
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Harold Bloom, Chelsea House
Day 18: Critical
Approaches
M.H. Abrams
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Mimetic
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Pragmatic/Rhetorical
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Expressive
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Objective
Day 20: The Hero's
Quest
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archetype/
steroetype--
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collective
unconscious-- (Carl Jung)
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monomyth--(Joseph
Campbell)
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Separation/
Initiation/ Return -- three stages of the monomyth
according to Joseph Campbell
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romance
(Northrop Frye)
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innocence/experience/organized
innocence
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call to adventure
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crossing the threshold
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liminal:
in between place/ transitional zone MW11: "Etymology: Latin limin-, limen
threshold: of or relating to a sensory threshold; barely perceptible"
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belly of the whale
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road of trials
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doppelgangaer/ shadow
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nadir
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dragon battle/ leviathan
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sparagmos (Greek):
ritual dismemberment, death, disfiguration (literally "tering apart,
as Dionysius is torn apart in the Bacchae)
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The Hanged
Man: Tarot image of rebirth/ resurection. The
Tarot Card
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apotheosis:
becoming a god. MW 11: "elevation to divine status : DEIFICATION; the perfect
example : QUINTESSENCE <this is the literary apotheosis of the shaggy
dog story -- Thomas Sutcliffe>" Dickey describes napalm as "the apotheosis
of gelatin" in his poem "The Firebombing"
Day 21: The Female
Hero
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Heroine vs. female hero
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virginity myth
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the green world
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green world lover
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light man vs. dark man
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false father
Day 22-24: Intro to Drama/
Aristotle
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TRAGEDY--
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spoudais
/ phaulos
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reversal
or peripetia
(Aristotle) -- (
See Oxford)
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recognition
or anagnorisis (Aristotle) -- (
See Oxford)
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deus
ex machina -- inartistic, obviously maniplated resolution
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simple and complex plots
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pity and fear
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pathos or suffering
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spectacle
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catharsis --
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hamartia or tragic flaw--
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hubris--
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mythos -- Greek for plot
or story
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probability
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in media res
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poetic justice
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closet drama
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Drama pyramid
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rising action, complication
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climax, crisis
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resolution, conclusion, denoument
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Festival of Dionysus
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orchestra/ skene
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chorus
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prologue -- intro to play
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paraode -- first entrance of chorus
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episodia -- intervals of action
and speeeches by actors
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stasimon -- choral reaction to
episodes
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exodus -- last scene