STUDY GUIDE

NEED TO KNOW:

• Don Quixote discussed in class
• Idea of Order
• Frye's essays: 1) Archetypes of Literature, and 2) Symbols
• Aristotle's Poetics
• Plato's Republic book 10
• Sidney's Defense
• Dante's 4 levels
• Shelley's Defense

Questions:

1. trust the _________ not the _______. A- tale/ teller
2. centripetal vs centrifugal and formal phase A- goes in/ goes out
3. In which box is does the pharmakos belong? A- ironic comedy
4. baseball umpire A- scapegoat
5. all literature is displaced _________. A- myth
6. Aristotle's definition of tragedy: A- imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude
7. Greek word for something gone: A- dromenon
8. On page 427 of DQ- What does the canon believe about literature? A- that it should be didactic
9. didactic means: A- teach us something
10. definition of logos (which is the myth operating in Idea) A- the power to create through the agency of the word
11. the sense of ___________ is stronger in tragedy than comedy A- reality
12. all comedy is directed at who? A- and inflexible person
13. 'Nature only gives us a _________ world, while the poet gives us a _______ world." ~ Sidney A- brazen/ golden
14. 4 elements of Abram's grid: A- word, audience, world, art
15. According to Frye all structures of words are partly ________ and hence _________. pg 350 A- rhetorical/ literary
16. Plato's ________ in book 10 banished the poets, why? A- Republic, they are all deranged useless liars
17. Pathos belongs in which Frye box? A- low mimetic
18. mythos, ethos and dianoia are? A- plot (story)/ character/ theme
19. repeat the last line of Shelley's Defense A- 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"
20. Frye's _______ phrase corresponds to the low mimetic? A- descriptive
21. According to Sidney the poet never affirms anything therefore_______? A- they never lie
22. polysemous: A- meanings on a variety of levels
23. Literally speaking, what the poet means is... A- the poem its self
24. define tautology: A- it is what it is
25. In Shelley's opinion, imagination is superior to ___________. A- logic, reason
26. epiphany: A- a sudden manifestation of the divine or a light bulb
27. pg 100 of Frye- archetypal criticism phase of symbols, Lycidas A- an entire liberal education by reading one poem
28. The Alazon: A- an impostor 1) soldier, 2) professor
29. metonymy/ synecdoche is defined as: A- a part of something that stands for something else