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| Characteristic of irony: irony has two or more possible layers of understanding; these need not be readily apparent. |
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| Characteristic of irony: two layers must be in opposition, which may or may not be perceived. If it is perceived, the observer must make a judgment. |
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| Characteristic of irony: it usually contains an element of unawareness on the part of the participant, reader, or author. |
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| In _______, a known, accepted or offered belief or standard is assumed or affirmed and departures from it are called into question or negated. |
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| In _______, a known, accepted or offered belief or standard is negated or rendered absurd by applying it to a difficult circumstance. |
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| Negative irony tends to be parasitic; without some _________, it cannot appeal to two levels set against each other and hence has nothing to ironize. |
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| Irony as a Mode of Thinking |
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| _________ emphasizes the difficulty or impossibility of reality being intergrated with a belief or ideal in a way that is not illusory. The Office is characterized by irony. |
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| A situation where irony is present but no clear guidelines exist to determine whether the irony is positive, negative, or neutral is _________. It is irony where we don't know how to take it. |
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| Lucas says, "For in ________ is imbedded the eternal contradition between men's weakness and his courage, his stupidity and his magnificence, his frailty and his strength." |
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| The two main emotions in tragedy are _________. |
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| _________ is the purging of sentimental pity and inconsequential fears; it is the purification resulting in emotional and aesthetic vivification. |
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| In tragedy, _______ is a false step taken in blindness; it is something amiss within a character that is exposed by events or circumstance. This feature is an ignorance or misunderstanding about the way things are that we might recognize and criticize, yet understand in a sympathetic way. |
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| Tragedy tends to be ______ driven. |
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| In tragedy, plot tends to be the vehicle of _________. |
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| __________ plots lack causality and therefore are atypical of tragedy. |
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| Tragic Protagonist Characteristics |
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| Typically one of high position, often admirable, being neither wholly good nor wholly bad. Tragic characters are active and they contribute to their own destruction; they pick the fruits of their own deeds. |
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| Aristotle says, "_______ of the situation is a change by which the action veers around to its opposite..." |
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| Aristotle says, "________ is...a change from ignorance to knowledge." |
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| Clash; Moral High Ground; Flaws |
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| Tragedy features a ______ between two positives, two more or less equally justified powers wherein each side has some _________ as well as some ________. |
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| A violation of the _________ moves separate positive values from potential to actual conflict. |
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| In relation to the biblical narrative, tragedy recapitulates the ________. |
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| For Steiner, tragedy requires an intellectual climate infused with known beliefs and assumptions about life that includes a strong element of the __________ that allows issues to go beyond the temporal. |
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| The most productive ages for tragedy are those times of transition where the _______ absolute values of one age give way to the _________ values of the next. |
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| Marriage; feast/celebration |
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| Comedies typically end in ______ and _______. |
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| The two main emotions in comedy are ___________. |
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| In comedy, ______ is more important than plot. |
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| In comedy, plot tends to be the vehicle of necessity whereas character tends to be the vehicle or expression of __________. |
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| Comic plots feature competing _______ of the future as they are manifest in the ________. |
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| Reluctant parents; entrenched social order |
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| Resistence to the desired comic future often comes in the form of blocking agents such as _______ or ________. |
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| A _________ is any formal or informal way of thinking, composed of desires, active beliefs, and tacit assumptions by which a given situation or set of situations is perceived and interpreted. |
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| Comedy results from the simultaneous conflict of two or more _________ set in motion when a character acts or is acted upon with a view toward future integration of some kind. |
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| The greater the juxtaposition and persistence of two competing _________ about a given situation, the greater the comic effect. |
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| An outside force, something quite unexpected, often taking the form of luck or providence, often intervenes to straighten things out. This is also referred to as __________. |
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| In _______ comedy, the vision of the future is realized; the couple gets married and lives happily ever after. |
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| In _______ comedy, the idealized future is not realized, although the vision animating the comic vision remains. |
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| ________ is the story of a hero who embodies and presents an ideal. |
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| In romance, the hero embarks on a ________ or _________ and undergoes a series of tests portrayed in an expansive, interlacing, and episodic narrative that often includes other stories and characters. |
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| The hero of the romance is the ______ and lives according to that _______. |
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| Romance generally features a conflict between _______ and _______, which tend to be clearly defined and polarized. |
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| Frye calls the conflict between good and evil a conflict between the ______ world and ______ world, the idyllic vs. the demonic, or the day world vs. the world of the night. |
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| Myth; Realistic; God-like |
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| For Frye, romance belongs between _____ and the ________, where characters act in ______ ways unlike normal human beings yet are not equal to the gods. |
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| Clara Reeve says, "The _______ is a picture of real life and manners, and of the times in which it was written. The _______ in a lofty and elevated language describes what has never happened before nor is likely to happen. |
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| Marvel; Risk; Triumphant Adventure |
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| Romance typically has dramatic qualities of _______, ________, and ________. |
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| A common motif in romance is the wandering journey toward _______. |
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| Typically in romance, there are _______ relationships between men and women. |
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| Often in romance, the protagonist is portrayed to have mental ________. |
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| Events in romance are under the directing influence of a __________ power. |
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| Another common motif in romance is that often there is a distinguishing ______ or ______ by which the hero or heroine will be eventually recognized. |
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| Romance often feature this kind of plot. |
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| Time and season of year associated with tragedy. |
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| Time and season of year associated with comedy. |
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| Time and season of the year associated with romance. |
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| Time and season of the year associated with irony. |
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