The Odyssey Homer Alliteration is the repetition of constant sounds. Allusion is the reference of another book in a book. Antagonist is the bad guy. Anthology is a collection of short stories. Autobiography is a book written about you. Characterization is appearance, speech, thoughts, actions, and how other feel about them. Flat character you only see 1 or 2 sides. Round you see all sides of them. Static stays the same. Dynamic changes. Conflict is a struggle between two or more opposing forces
masters, the vile suitors. Odysseus predicts that Eumaeus will see his master again quite soon, but Eumaeus will hear none of it—he has encountered too many vagabonds looking for a handout from Penelope in return for fabricated news of Odysseus. Still, Eumaeus takes a liking to his guest. He puts him up for the night and even lets him borrow a cloak to keep out the cold. When Eumaeus asks Odysseus about his origins, Odysseus lies that he is from Crete. He fought with Odysseus at Troy and made it home
chart (no feedback necessary here). The teacher will be thinking aloud for the student to show how he/she uses the chart and what he/she looks for in Amy Tan's text. The teacher will also discuss how, based on the essay, Tan's style includes page 1 of 16 changes in diction, reflection, and narration to inform the reader of her language heritage. We Do Stage: the teacher works with the students to fill out a chart for Richard Rodriguez's writing. The teacher will ask direct questions (based
eNotes: Table of Contents 1. Guide to Literary Terms: Introduction 2. Guide to Literary Terms: Complete Index ♦ (the) Absurd ♦ Aesthetics ♦ Affective Fallacy ♦ Allegory ♦ Alliteration ♦ Allusion ♦ Ambiguity ♦ Anachronism ♦ Analogy ♦ Antagonist ♦ Anticlimax ♦ Antithesis ♦ Aphorism ♦ Apocalyptic ♦ Apology ♦ Arbitrary ♦ Archetype ♦ Ballad ♦ Bard ♦ Bibliography and Further Reading ♦ Black Comedy ♦ Blank Verse ♦ Bombast ♦ Canon ♦ Canto ♦ Catharsis ♦ Character ♦ Characterization ♦ Chorus ♦ Chronicle ♦ Climax
COMIC BOOKS VS. GREEK MYTHOLOGY: THE ULTIMATE CROSSOVER FOR THE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR by ANDREW S. LATHAM A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Department of Literature and Languages Paul Streufert, Ph.D., Committee Chair College of Arts and Sciences The University of Texas at Tyler May 2012 Acknowledgements There are entirely too many people I have to thank for the successful completion of this thesis, and I cannot
extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style (with ennobled diction, for example). It may be written in hexameter verse, especially dactylic hexameter, and it may have twelve books or twenty four books. Characteristics of the classical epic include these: The main character or protagonist is heroically larger than life, often the source and subject of legend or a national hero The deeds of the hero are presented without favoritism
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CONTENT INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………2 CHAPTER I. 1.1. HISTORICAL RENAISSANCE. HISTORICAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH REAISSANCE……………………………………………………………………..4 1.2. SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORICAL PLAYS……………………………………………..10 1.3. SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGIC HEROES IN HISTORICAL PLAYS……………………17 CHAPTER II. 2.1. MASCULINE IDENTITY IN SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORICAL PLAYS…………...23 2.2. SHAKESPEARE’S TITANS AND TYRANTS: RICHARD II, HENRY V…………...29 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………
Aesthetic Criticism Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereichs 05 (Sprache, Literatur, Kultur) der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen vorgelegt von Gerald Niba Nforbin aus Kamerun 2009 Dekan/in: 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning (Gießen) 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Herbert Grabes (Gießen) Tag der Disputation: 25/02/2010 A recent critic has shown that in England at least, Shaw is by far the most frequently performed dramatist
1. FORM AND STRUCTURE 5 1.1 FORMALISM 5 1.1.1 Victor Shklovsky: from ‘Art as Technique’ 5 1.1.2 Vladimir Propp: from Morphology of the Folktale 6 1.1.3 Mikhail Bakhtin: from ‘The Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse’ 7 1.1.4 E.M. Forster: from Aspects of the Novel 14 1.1.5 Wayne C. Booth: from The Rhetoric of Fiction 16 1.1.6 Wayne C. Booth: from ‘Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader’s Objectivity’ 18 1.2 THE NEW CRITICISM 20 1.2.1 Cleanth Brooks: from ‘The Formalist Critic ‘ 20 1