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World Lit II Mid-Term
Everything up to the Mid-Term, WL2
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English
Undergraduate 2
02/25/2013

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Ideology
Definition
shared Unspoken beliefs about the world
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Hegemony
Definition
Imposition of ideology on another
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Irony
Definition
clear intended difference between signifier and signified
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signifier
Definition
part of sign system carrying meaning
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signified
Definition
part of a sign system "meaning"
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semiotics/semiology
Definition
study of signs, per Saussure
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Overdetermined
Definition
having more than one meaning, as in "all signifiers are overdetermined"
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ISA
Definition
Ideological State Apparatus, a cultural imposition of hegemony as in churches, news, social media, schools, frats, boy scouts etc
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RSA
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Repressive State Apparatus, enforcemet agency for hegemony, as in police, military, judicial system
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epic
Definition
heroic poem with invocation, proem, episodic structure, epic epithets, catalogues, etc
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epyllion/mock epic
Definition
poem using conventions of epics to mock subject matter or form or both
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Figure
Definition
rhetorical device changing the form of an utterance
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chiasmus
Definition
mirror-image figure, ab ba
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troupe
Definition
rhetorical device changing the meaning of an utterance
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metaphor
Definition
implicit comparison
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simile
Definition
explicit comparison
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metonymy
Definition
troupe of close association
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synedouche
Definition
part stands for a whole
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lyric poem
Definition
short song
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speaker
Definition
voice in a lyric poem
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ballad
Definition
narrative song
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elegiac stanza
Definition
quartrain, all lines iambic pentameter abxa
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stanza
Definition
regular recurring unit of poetic structure
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deconstruction
Definition
non-analytical approach to understanding textual meaning
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minimal pair
Definition
2 items, identical in all ways but one
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manna
Definition
exudate of woody plant bark
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Gothic
Definition
literary genre of atmospheric horror, including religious crimes and terrible secrets
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romance
Definition
celebration of the non-rational
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ha-ha
Definition
landscape ditch
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picturesque
Definition
framable
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sublime
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unframable
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Heroic couplet
Definition
iambic pentameter couplet
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couplet
Definition
pair of rhyming verses, or of sweethearts ex. Romeo and Juliet
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Oroonoko author?
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Behn
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Oroonoko's girlfriends name?
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Imonida
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An Essay on Man author?
Definition
Pope
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Reply to Taga Bokkei author?
Definition
Baien
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