PPT-Literary Terms Project American Literature Fall Semester

2011 This is graded as the Semester Project Failure to do this project will have a serious adverse effect on the final grade in this class Assignment Due Date Monday December 17 and Tuesday . Critical reading: psychoanalytical, . marxist. , feminist. LQ: Can I compare poems . thematically while . analysing. language form and structure?. Literary terms: Juxtaposition, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, caesura, crescendo, bathos, pathos, satirical, misogyny. FORMALIST. By:. Haley A.. Erica C.. Elizabeth G.. DEFINITION:. A way of analyzing literature in which no outside information about history, politics, or society, is used, and no prior knowledge about the author’s life or time period is referenced. Strictly the text, and literary elements used within it. . Introduction to Humanities. The Humanities Through the Arts. F. David Martin * Lee A. Jacobus. Spoken language is the basic medium of literature.. Literature is an art whose medium is language used to affect the imagination.. English novel Engl2349. . Dr. Sami S. . Breem. Plot. . plot/events/actions. . Aristotle’s plot-line/structure/diagram. introduction/exposition. . rising action/development. . climax/turning point. Dr. Maier. Aristotle: . Poetics. First significant work of literary criticism . Authored in 335 B.C. . Pity and Fear (Eleos and Phobos) . Catharsis. Mimesis. A Multiplicity of Approaches. Literary critics are almost never unified in their interpretation of a novel or any literary work. Why do you suppose this is the case? What factors make it virtually impossible for critics to come to a consensus regarding the meaning of a literary work? . the Age of Reason . (1750-1800). The literary implications of the American Revolution. . Military victory and . p. olitical independence from Britain spanned nationalistic hopes for a great . national. Figurative Language . Describing something by comparing it with something else. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject.. lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to . November 8. th. , 2016. Semester in San Francisco 2012. 2. SSF Cohort 2012. Net Promoter Score . higher . than Apple iPhone at it’s peak. Q2 NPS = 74%. 2010 Apple iPhone NPS = 73. %. Students said…. Motif . - A recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, an image, or reference, which appears frequently in a work of literature.. Symbol. - a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level and represents another, more general idea. Note, however, that symbols function perfectly well in isolation from other symbols. Allegory, however, does not work that way; allegory requires symbols working in conjunction with each other.. Native American Literature Native American Literature: Cultural Diversity At time of Columbus, 350 distinct languages existed in North America Thousands of distinct cultural groups existed as well. Midterm Review What you need to know for your Midterm: American Literary History through 1914 Terminology used in discussing literature How to find rhyme, rhythm and meter How to do basic literary analysis American Literary History through 1914. Terminology used in discussing literature. How to find rhyme, rhythm and meter. How to do basic literary analysis. Section 1: Major Themes in American Literate to 1914. Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche..