World Literature FINAL EXAM Study Guide

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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World Literature FINAL EXAM Study Guide
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