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Major Themes In Literature
Final Exam
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
05/08/2014

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"The Purloined Letter"
Definition
Poe.
Detective story.
Romantic vs. Mathematical (Realist)
Romantic wins
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"The Veldt"
Definition
Science Fiction
Futuristic scientific developments fuel the plot. Like Star Trek
Term
7 tenets of existentialism
Definition
1. Focus on concrete individual existence
2. Focus on individual freedom
3. Emphasis on choice
4. Committed once you choose and must take responsibility for your actions
5. Accompanying dread or anxiety which can lead to alienation
6. The look: Something has happened and you stare at another person and try to fix them with your gaze
7. Bad faith: Lying to yourself and believing it
Term
Anti-hero
Definition
Clumsy, weak, inept, and forgetful
Term
Freud
Definition
Id: pleasure principle
Ego: reality principle
Superego: conscience

Manifest: what you see in a dream
Latent: the meaning of the dream
Condensation, representation, displacement
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"A Continuity of Parks"
Definition
Green armchair
Surrealism
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Black Humor
Definition
1. Discovered in pain or horror
2. Contains folly (foolish actions)
3. Skeptical irony involved
4. Author maintains distance
5. You don't sympathize with characters

"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
"The Lottery"
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Romanticism
Definition
1. Emotion over reason
2. Imagination
3. Interest in the past
4. Nature
5. Anti-hero
Term
Modernism
Definition
1. Experimental in form
2. Pervasively ironic
3. Symbolistic
4. Focuses on psychological
5. Mythic underlying structure
6. Anti-bourgeois/subversive of middle class values
7. Self-reflexive (About itself)
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Three Fates
Definition
1. Atropos: She carries the shears and cuts the thread of life.
2. Clotho: She carries the spindle and spins the thread of life.
3. Lachesis: She carries the scroll and determines the length of the thread of life.
Term
Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
Definition
Hint: CAP HR

Compassion
Aversion
Panic
Hope
Resentment
Term
The Freytag Pyramid
Definition
1. Exposition or introduction
2. Complication and development
3. Crisis or climax
4. Falling action
5. Denouement, resolution, or catastrophe

"Metamorphosis" starts at the climax. For Grete it's rising action, and for Gregor it's falling action.
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The part and the whole
Definition
Relation between some single word and the overall meaning of the situation and action.
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point of view
Definition
events of the story told as they appear to one or more people (characters, narrator, or author)
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Tension
Definition
emotional and intellectual force generated by disparate potentials
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novella
Definition
fiction between a short story and a novel
Term
description
Definition
presentation of appearance or setting
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pace
Definition
the speed at which the author develops a story
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illusion
Definition
the sense that one is morally and emotionally involved
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unity
Definition
the shape and consistency of a story
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pattern
Definition
metaphorical...the changes in the relative position of the characters
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resolution
Definition
conflict is decided and struggle is concluded
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plot
Definition
the phases of action within a story that are linked together by a chain of causal relations
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indirection
Definition
guide, direct, and entice the imagination of the reader instead of using a direct statement
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distance
Definition
distinction between author and characters. separates adventure from the reader's experience
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coherence
Definition
consistency of various parts of a story
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convention
Definition
aspect of literary art established by earlier and repeated usage in how language represents experience
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theme
Definition
unifying point or meaning of a story
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paradox
Definition
statement that appears to contradict or be inconsistent with common sense
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moral
Definition
instructive point of a story
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immediacy
Definition
effect or illusion of sharing characters' experience
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mood
Definition
prevailing feeling of a story generated by language, setting, and quality of action
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tone
Definition
tone of voice in which the speaker relates an episode
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