World Literature FINAL EXAM Study Guide
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Iliad (author)
Homer
Metamorphosis (author)
Franz Kafka
The Song of Roland (author)
Unknown
All Quiet on the Western Front (author)
Erich Remarque
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (author)
Leo Tolstoy
Hedda Gabler (playwright)
Henrik Ibsen
Medea (author)
Oral Tradition/ Lyric Poetry
Candide (author)
Voltaire
Koran (author)
Muhammad
One Thousand & One Nights (author)
Collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic
Things fall Apart (author)
Chinua Achebe
Merchant of Venice (playwright)
Shakespeare
Proem
Beginning of the poem (first 8 lines)
Epic Poem
Iliad; form and content; Hero-in battle/comradeship motif
Dactylic Hexameter
Each line has 6 feet and 1 stressed, 2 stressed
Aristeia
“aria”; warriors finest moment
Folk Epic
Sung or chanted (The Song of Roland)
Declamentory
Over exaggerated gestures in a play
Epiphanatic
Ecstatic vision of brief single moments of intensity
Tragic Vision
Doubt
Irony
Weight of suffering/eventual death; limits of reason, order, justice in human & divine relationships
Lyric Poetry
Book of Songs
Bildungsroman
Novel of education
Picaresque
Rogue-varying adventures
Deism
Depersonalized deity who put the universe in order
Catharsis
Purification & purgation of emotions
Media
Language: verses, spoken and narrated; Melody: words sung, movement of chorus
Manner
Spectacle: public, performance
Objects
Plot: combination of the events Character; Thought: theme, the point or opinion
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