slusser-world literature study guide
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- tragic curve of pyramus and thisbe
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exposition-roman empire, walled city, 2 young ppl in love, forbidden by parents
inciting action-when p&t decide to meet
ascending action-t sees lion and ruuns away, leaves veil
climax-p thinks t. has been eaten, kills himself, then t. kills herself
catastrophe-p. realizes t didnt die
denouement-make berries of mulberry bush red-touched their parents, same urn
Elizabeth Is A CCD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - why does david fight in david and goliath?
- he wants to protect his people
- augurer
- an ancient roman official
- why is the mahabharata an epic?
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cuz its a long poem.
yudhistira (the dude) is an epic hero-embodies the virtues of his ppl (goes to get the religious stuff) - tributaries
- something or someone that or who pays tribute
- judicious
- having/excercising good judgement
- loath
- Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined: I am loath to go on such short notice.
- inordinate
- excessive
- vile
- disgusting
- david's faith in god
- has a lot of faith in g-d
- symbolism of 40
- critical number in redemptive cycle
- dullard
- stupid or unimaginative person
- constancy
- steadfast
- why is panchatantra that make it a fable
- has a moral!
- what happened in 1001 nights
- got lost, found a dome, was a giant, massive, bird's egg; flew away with bird; found lots of diamonds;got home
- what simile does confusius use in the first saying?
- he who rules by force is like the pole star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
- why is david a hero
- because he saved his people from goliath and hisppl
- plot of the river merchants life poem
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kids didnt knew each other, kind of friends, when they got married he liked her, but she didnt like him, then she started to love him, wanted to be cremated together
- redress
- to correct or compensate for a wrong or loss
- jen
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love, goodness, humanness
MOST IMPORTANT VIRTUE!!!!! - infirmity,
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frailness/feebleness
failing in a person's character - why is yudhistira an epic hero?
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cuz he has superhum traits-answering all those qs
several adventures/tasks
flaw-sends his bros to do the dirty work
product of culture! - fray
- to strain/wear away
- poignancy
- the quality of painfully affecting one's feelings
- plot of mahabharata
- a soldier dude sees a deer steal a bunch of religious stuff, decides htat its his duty to get it. makes his brothers go with him. sends his brothers to do the work and look for the deer while he rests (good idea, dude!). his brothers dont come back (oops..) so he goes looking for his bros and a huge giant person materializes beside this lake. the giant says he is a yaksha, a big god. asks the soldier dude a lot of qs. finally, the dude gets all his bros to come back to life. the end
- aristotle's 6 characteristics of classical tragedy
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nobility-to be a tragic hero, must be noble
hamartia-error in judgement
reversal-?!
suffering-may die or suffer tragically
recognition-of self awareness of knowledge comes too late (uh oh, spaghettio)
catharsis-purgation of the
pity and fear
"never has rachel seen ralph cough"-i know, i know, pretty pathetic, sorry... - framed narrative
- story within a story
- bondman
- a male servant
- whats a maxim
- a maxim is a short, concise, memorable statement that tells ppl what to do-like "if you dont say something nice, dont say anything at all!" or "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!"
- "are you not moved, when all the sway of the earth shakes like a thing unfirm? o cicero, i have seen tempests, when the scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks, and i have seent he ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, to be exalted with the th
- casca-using pathetic fallacy
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mans highest value
tao te ching - peace
- firmament
- sky
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mans true power
tao te ching - mastering yourself
- ominous
- foreboding
- boon
- something beneficial that is bestowed, a blessing
- insurrection
- open revolt against civil authority or government
- parallelism
- use of a series of words, phrases, or lines that have similar grammatical structure.
- prodigy
- extraordinary person, thing or deed
- avarice
- greed
- thicket
- dense growth of shrubbery or small trees
- to what does confucius compare the treatment of parents?
- sons should treat their parents with a lot of respect, but they dont
- tragic curve definitions and examples from play
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exposition-a plague, priest employs o. to get rid of it
inciting action-creon returns with oracle's saying, o. promises to find murderers
ascending action-o. accuses creon and tiresias for L's death
climax-o. waits for shepherd to tell what happened (one or more) o. thinks he might have done it
reversal-messenger comes and polybus is deadd, o. thinks that he didnt kill his dad
catastrophe-o. pokes out his eyes
denouement-establishment of new kingdom (creon is king) new order , plague is gone - what kind of person will find happiness according to confucius?
- he who only seeks coarse food to eat, water to drink, and a bent arm for pillow will find happiness
- extenuated
- trying to lessen magnitude/seriousness-partial excuses
- attainment
- accomplishment
- enfranchise
- to give rights of citizenship-especially to vote
- scholarship
- academic achievement or knowledge
- arbor
- shaded resting place in a park, where vines/plants are grown
- moral of the panchatantra
- scholarship is less than sense,...and the rest of it
- augment
- to make greater
- book of ruth plot
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naomi is married to elimelech, have 2 sons-married. elimelech and sons die during famine. naomi decides to go back to where she's from. girls wanna go with her, wont let them. one girl leaves to father's house. ruth stays. they go to the city. stay there-very poor
ruth goes to work-boaz (farmer that naomi knew) likes her
eventually, they get married and live happily ever after.
the end - visage
- appearance
- nullity
- a mere nothing, insignificance
- prodigious
- extraordinary or ominous
- what saying does confucius say you could act upon all day?
- the golden rule
- what is pathetic fallacy?
- The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example, angry clouds; a cruel wind.
- why is the panchatantra a framed narrative?
- i dont know use someone else's cards!
- abridged
- condense/curtail
- role of women in hebrew culture
- work, but alsoserve men
- panchatantra bkrd.
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written in 200 BC
hindu fable
panchatantra=5 chapters
in sanskrit - incantation
- spell thingy
- li
- ritual of manners, courtesy, etc.
- clamor
- noisy shouting
- role of foreigners in hebrew society
- helped-leave crops to glean
- repetition and its purpose
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helps orators remember
helps listeners remember
enphasizes idea
- austerity
- a spiritual, morally strict act
- sluice
- floodgate
- fable
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old oral tradition, short, make believe, if it has animals is a bestial faldieau
MUST HAVE A MORAL! - symbolism of the rainbow
- shows g-ds covenant with the jews
- fatuous
- silly, foolish
- servile
- submissive
- what does the master at the center of the circle mean?
- if you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever
- impale
- to pierce with a pointed object
- ruth's importance to christians
- ruth was david's grandmother
- steps to judging credibility of a source (5)
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consider writers background
consider motivation and purpose
distinguis fact from opinion
identify flawed logic and irrelevant info.
add what you know - choleric
- bad tempered/expressing anger
- what is hamartia?
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in aristotle's 6 characteristics of classical tragedy
it means an error in judgement - Hector
- One of Priam's sons who was killed
- tumult
- noisy confusion
- anchises
- father if Aeneas
- affability
- gracious, gentle, approachable
- frame of panchatantra
- gold finder is telling a wheel bearer the story of the scholars
- dank
- disagreeably damp/humid
- Venus
- Mother of Aeneas, goddess of love and beauty
- libation
- liquid for ceremonies
- Menelaus
- Wife was Helen, she was taken away and Menelaus wanted her back and that started the Trojan War
- accoutred
- to outfit/equip for military duty
- occasion and character
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occasion-about an event or occasion
character-describing a person of the time period - oedipus plot
- his eyes get poked out
- Agamenon
- He was king of somewhere. He was the brother of Menelaus, his wife killed him
- how is gilgamsesh and epic hero?
- 2/3 divine, 1/3 mortal
- Aeneas
- Founded Rome, he was strong and brave
- construe
- interpret the meanign of
- Helen
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THe wife of Melelaus, she caused the Trojan War
- prostrate
- to lie down in adoration/submission
- Ceres
- Goddess of agriculture
- puissant
- power or might
- Ascanius/Iulus
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THe son of Aeneas - don't get him confused with Anchises
- unassailable
- undeniable-not subject to attack/seizure
- king of Troy
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Priam
- grievous
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-serious-causing grief/pain
- chastisement
- to punish, criticize severely
- chide
- to scold mildly
- rumi
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wrote counsels of the bird
lived in persia with genghis khan
religious
founded mavlevi, and order of sufis-tolerance, humility, charity, equality - encompass
- to enclose/envelope
- apparition
- sudden/unusual sight/act of appearing
- cogitations
- thoughtful consideration/meditation
- garland
- mark of honor, tribute/anthology of ballads, poems
- sidd's son
- was a spoiled brat
- "...has a lean and hungry loook...i would he were fatter! but i fear him not...he reads much, he is a great observer, and he looks quite through the deeds of men. he loves no plays, as thou dost, antony, he hears no music, seldom he smile at anythin
- caesar, refering to cassius
- voice
- his self
- revered
- regarded as worthy of great honor
- vasudeva
- the ferry man
- discourteous
- impolite
- the exordium indicates that allah reponds to disobedience by feeling
- angry
- renown
- a state of being widely acclaimed
- kamaswami
- the rich merchant
- apt
- suitable, appropriate
- which selection proclaims faith in allah
- exordium and daylight
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"forget not in your speed, antonius, to touch calphurnia, for our elders say the barren, touched in ths holy chase, shake off their sterile curse"
who said it, when - j. c., at the race of lupercal
- gotama (sidd)
- buddha
- peevish
- discontented, unruly
- bird cage in sidd.
- soul is trapped
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who said
"i love the name of honor more than i fear death"? - brutus
- decaying trees in siddhartha
- what Siddhartha was like as he made bad choices in his extravagent lifestyle.
- "brutus would rather be a villager than to repute himself a son of rome under these hard conditions at this time"
- -brutus
- govinda
- sidd's friend
- engendered
- to bring into existence/procreate, propagate
- in which selevtion is allah compared to an aspect of nature
- neither daylight nor exordium
- perceive
- to become directly aware fo through any senses
- kamala
- sidd's "friend"
- suffice
- be sufficient/capable
- which selection directly addresses allah?
- exordium
- which of the following comes closest to expressing the idea contained in the last half of daylight?
- treat others as the lord has treated you
- testy
- irritated or exasperated
- insupportable
- intolerable, unjustifiable
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"a trade, sir, that i hope i may use, with a safe conscience, wich is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles...nay, i beseech you, sir, be not out with me. yet if you be out, sir, i can mend you."
who said it, what literary element is it, etc - cobbler, pun, comedy
- covert
- not openly praacticed/covered over, shelterede
- interminable
- having or seeming to have no end
- provender
- dry food to feed livestock/food or provisions
- vexed
- to annoy, puzzle, etc.
- taper
- gradual decrease in thickness, small, slender candle
- tarry
- delay
- presage
- omen, prophetic significance/meaning
- what happened in the burning of rome?
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there was a fire, nero wasnt there
went back, re did city
he had a bigger castle, etc - what happened in pyramus and thisbe
- they are in love-talk through the wall. they eventually kill themselves-change color of mulberry tree
- demeanor
- how a person behaves
- enmity
- hatred or ill will
- penusiously
- in severe poverty
- narrative poetry
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has a plot, tells a story, characters, dialogue
ex-pyramus and thisbe - "why man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. men at some are masters of their fates. the fault, dear brutus is not in our starts, but in
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cassius
- cur
- coward
- chaste
- innocent, pure
- extremity
- great danger or need
- contrary
- unfavorable
- presumption
- attitude or conduct that oversteps the bounds of propriety or courtesy