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CMLIT010
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2012

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Term
myth
Definition
word and silence
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grapheme
Definition
recorded myth
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logos
Definition
word that is more divine
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chaos
Definition
primal, violence
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cosmos
Definition
structured, order
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eros
Definition
desire-- leads chaos to cosmos
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thanatos
Definition
death
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world
Definition
men in time
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literature
Definition
what is made in, with, and of letters
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theogony
Definition
tale of the birth of the gods
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ka
Definition
spirit
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mnemonic
Definition
re-membering
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civis
Definition
city
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polis
Definition
city
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xenia
Definition
the way one deals with strangers
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polysyndenton
Definition
repetition of a specific word
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incipit
Definition
beginning
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genesis
Definition
here it begins
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devolution
Definition
something to come down from, falling from
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hubris
Definition
pride which can get you into trouble
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letters
Definition
writing, alphabet
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lugalbanda
Definition
a holy man
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medicine
Definition
wisdom of the body
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government
Definition
social form
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pedagogy
Definition
the seven sages
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hierosgamos
Definition
sacred or divine marriage
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apotropeia
Definition
placate ancestors
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synechdoche
Definition
part that represents the whole
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anomie
Definition
lawless
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cyclops
Definition
a round eye
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outis
Definition
nobody
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nekyia
Definition
right for calling up ghosts to disclose the future
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Ogygia
Definition
island of Calypso
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Aeaea
Definition
island of enchantment
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hypnagogic
Definition
during sleep
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antinous
Definition
against the mind (madman)
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amphinomus
Definition
two minds
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tyrannus
Definition
someone who succeeded to the kingship
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paideia
Definition
children and their lessons
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hamartia
Definition
error in ignorance
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peripeteia
Definition
turning point
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anagnorisis
Definition
recognition
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catastrophe
Definition
change of fortune for the worse
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catharsis
Definition
cleansing, purging
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ekphrasis
Definition
bringing on medium into another
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nemesis
Definition
enemy who brings about your downfall
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narcissism
Definition
self-transformation of unknown self into object of desire
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autolepsis
Definition
futile spectral gestures
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metempsychosis
Definition
transmigration of the soul
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heterogeneities
Definition
morphing nature's laws
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jinshi
Definition
presented scholar
Term
synesthesia
Definition
use if senses normally attributed to other senses
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chromatics
Definition
color, eyes
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harmonics
Definition
blend of notes and sound
Term
counterpoint
Definition
call and response
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transition
Definition
segway from one to the next-- marked by shadow
Term
passage
Definition
getting from here to there
Term
zither
Definition
string instrument played with hammers
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composing
Definition
filling silence with music
Term
apostrophe
Definition
talking to the audience
Term
palistrophe
Definition
return to the beginning of the story
Term
concatination
Definition
with chains-- chain-linked stories
Term
intertextuality
Definition
texts refer to one another
Term
self-absolution
Definition
cannot be killed for what you say
Term
histoire-on-dit
Definition
they-say story
Term
misogynist
Definition
one who has no respect for women
Term
prosopopeia
Definition
person who personifies a specific trait
Term
epichureans
Definition
do not believe in immortality of the soul
Term
in videa
Definition
way of not seeing
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contrapasso
Definition
suffer the opposite
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plutocracy
Definition
ruled by money
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parabasis
Definition
involving the audience-- actor would remove mask and address the audience
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Judecca
Definition
land of Judas
Term
war
Definition
killing for profit
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false prophecy
Definition
worst thing
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auto-cannibalism
Definition
self-consumption
Term
barbarian
Definition
people who speak a different language
Term
terrorist
Definition
the "other guys"
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reason
Definition
lets delusion occur, and is aware of it
Term
amatory
Definition
love-related poetry
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palinode
Definition
retraction
Term
enlightenment
Definition
reason
Term
optimism
Definition
rationalization
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science
Definition
judgement
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etiology
Definition
cause and effect
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rule
Definition
normal
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anomie
Definition
always new normal
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change
Definition
necessity
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inevitability
Definition
contingency
Term
pilgrimage
Definition
errancy
Term
destiny
Definition
accidental destination
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theodicy
Definition
best of all possible worlds
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universal law
Definition
exceptional particulars
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poien
Definition
to make, create (poem)
Term
poietas
Definition
maker, creator (poet)
Term
self
Definition
mind, body, history
Term
sense
Definition
five senses and the sixth
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sentiment
Definition
feeling, emotion
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sensibility
Definition
management of sense and sentiment
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signification
Definition
organizing sense, self, sentiment, and sensibility into meaningful expression
Term
iambic
Definition
from the heart-- unstressed/stressed
Term
troche
Definition
stressed/unstressed
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dactyllic
Definition
long-short-short
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ghazal
Definition
courtly poetry-- originally sung
Term
caesura
Definition
break in a line
Term
soliloquy
Definition
talking to oneself
Term
proemion
Definition
prelude that tells what the text is
Term
epimenede's paradox
Definition
Cretan saying he's a liar, sane man saying he's sane
Term
chiaroscuro
Definition
clear darkness
Term
nocturno lunatico
Definition
by the light of the moon
Term
paranoid
Definition
mind beside itself
Term
schizophrenic
Definition
knows itself to be paranoid
Term
reflection
Definition
mirror image, contemplation
Term
focalizer
Definition
narrator tells story through this
Term
flora volvulata
Definition
invaginate
Term
convolvere
Definition
intertwine, wrapped in
Term
nature morte
Definition
naked truth
Term
ecce femina
Definition
vivisection
Term
autopsy
Definition
I see
Term
corpus delicti
Definition
body of evidence
Term
ternary
Definition
in threes
Term
persona
Definition
to sound through
Term
per
Definition
through
Term
sonare
Definition
to sound
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anthem
Definition
song to a flower
Term
unspoken
Definition
enables (doesn't need saying)
Term
unspeakable
Definition
don't say for a reason
Term
visceral
Definition
guts
Term
basil
Definition
plant of hope and self-rule
Term
nations
Definition
colonial construct, artificial
Term
comprador
Definition
buyer
Term
vendido
Definition
sell-out
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