How to Read Literature Like a Professor Quiz
4 purposes of drowning in a literary work
1. Character revelation 2. Guilt, thematic development 3. Plot complication 4. Resolution
5 essentials of a vampire story
1. Innocent young 2. Old figure 3. Stripping youth, energy 4. Continuing of the old 5. Death of the young innocent
What is the "resonance test"
A text that is bigger in meaning
Example of irony is
A winged character in a cage
Plot is character revealed in...
Action according to Aristotle
Difference between symbolism and allegory
Allegory is referring to a specific situation while symbolism is up to the reader to interpret
What is the literary device that is used when referencing the Bible?
Allusion
2 ways religion shows up in literature
Allusion & Analogy
Example of allegory
Animal farm
When blindness is important in a text the author introduces it all the time
Authors disregard characters humanity
Why is sex symbolized in books
Before the 1960's it was considered inappropriate and crude to talk about
When an author wants you to know something it will be introduced in the
Beginning
Greatest range of human situations?
Biblical
Flight is not a
Biblical allusion
What do authors borrow the most material from?
Children's list
Act of breaking bread shows...
Communion
The imagery associated with a dinner table most strongly suggests...
Communion and sharing
Fog symbolizes
Confusion
What disease was used by Romantics
Consumption
What does "there's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature?"
Core structure is based off of an original piece
Story of Daedalus & Icarus
Dad & son trapped on an island. Dad builds wax wings for kid to get out, tells him NOT to fly close to the sun. Kid flys close to the sun. Moral of the story. Obey your parents.
2 lows of geography
Darkness and caves
Pattern of baptism
Death of rebirth
2 categories of violence in literature
Deliberate and accidental
A symbol can be reduced to be representing one thing
False
Characters do not change after experiencing a near drowning
False
Geography can never be a character
False
History explains the seasons
False
In an ironic work, characters do not struggle futilely with forces we might be able to overcome
False
In literature, physical deformity is unrelated to character or moral deformity
False
Most early writers did not receive instruction in religion
False
Not every drowning has a purpose
False
Only objects and things are symbolic
False
Prose has more scripture than poetry
False
Sex was very prominent in Victorian literature
False
Similar a is a body of story that matters
False
The Hollywood code says bodies can't be horizontally together
False
The readers perspective does not matter
False
Violence is ALWAYS symbolic
False
When a character gets wet 2 times it has a religious or ritual association
False
When literal blindness, sight, darkness, and light are introduced in a story, it always means figurative seeing is at work
False
Concept of dysfunctional families or personal disintegration originate from
Free, Roman mythology also the Oedipus complex
Who is responsible for showing readers sexual intentions in writing
Freod
2 themes sex can symbolize
Fulfillment Power
What fairy tale do most writers borrow from?
Hansel and Gretel
Best metaphorical illness
Heart attack
Positive affect if rain
Hope, new awakening
Political writing is not good because...
It is one dimensional It does not travel well over time and place It is programmatic and pushes a single cause
Explain the two levels of meaning in a story
Literal meaning Symbolic meaning
What is the "literary canon?"
Master list of books
Intentionalist writers
Mean what they write. Everything is in there for a reason
2 highs of geography
Mountain and snow
Besides vampirism being about vampires it's also about
Old figure stealing youth from young figure (sex)
We should not specifically read from
Our own
What one theme modern female writers exploring when they write about sex
Personal vulnerability, freedom
2 things a cave symbolizes
Private & shelter
What is deconstruction
Reading that questions nearly everything in a story or poem
What is figuration
Representing things using symbols, metaphors, allegory, imagery
What is Harry Potter deformity
Scar on his eye
4 struggles involving human beings
Self v self Self v others Self v nature Self v god
Charles Dickens is a ________ writer
Social
What season is associated with the cruxifixction and resurrection?
Spring
What do the seasons represent
Spring: youth Fall: middle age Summer: adulthood Winter: resentment
What does "a heart of iron" mean
Strong will
Example of irony
Teachers learning from students
Who is the real monster in Frankenstein
The Doctor
If a work of literary contains four horsemen bringing death, its alluding to...
The apocalypse
Intertextually is
The ongoing interaction or dialogue between old and new texts
3 purposes of Christ-Figure
To be a savior To bolster characters To be make a point
What is always the real reason for quest?
To gain self knowledge
Why do writers use or quote Shakespeare?
To sound smart
Purpose of ghosts in a story
To teach
Reasons characters are tossed in the water
Transformation Handy solution to messy plots Develop them into something more
All Christ figures are male
True
Allusions to biblical sources are used to heighten continuities between religious tradition and the contemporary moment as well as illustrate disparity
True
Authors mean what they write
True
Character injuries symbolize the destruction of possibilities, metal damage, spiritual despair and the death of hope
True
Character markings indicate the damage life inflicts
True
Every age or time period has its own special disease
True
Every work teaches us how to read it as we go along
True
Fertility myths and mystic thinking are connected to the knight archetype
True
Harries have deformities
True
Illness and accidents happen for a purpose
True
Irony trumps everything
True
Metonymy is a rhetorical device in which a thing is used to name another thing it is closely related to
True
Most of the great tribulations between human beings are detailed in scripture
True
Most works engage the politics of their time
True
Nearly all writing is political on some level
True
No literary Christ figure can ever be as pure, perfect or divine as Jesus
True
Ones proximity or distance from God is manifested in external signs
True
Other objects and activities can represent sex besides the act itself
True
Readers learn about seasons in titles and characters' names
True
Readers remember stories that have great geography
True
Sex does not have to look like it
True
Situations and quotes from the Bible are more common than titles
True
The biblical naming of characters is important
True
You know more than you think you know
True
Flight does not symbolize
True Love
"Not reading with just ones eyes"
Understanding context
Malthusian thinking is
Welfare system
2 forces that create literary character
Writers Readers imagination
What are the 4 principles of writing about disease in literature?
1. Picturesque 2. Mysterious 3. Symbolize
4 reasons for rain
1. Plot device 2. Set atmosphere 3. Sorrow 4. Democratic situation that affects everyone
5 main characteristics of Christ
1. Sacrificial 2. Wounds at hands and feet 3. 33yo 4. Unmarried 5. Humbled beginnings
Name 5 aspects of a quest
1. The hero 2. The objective 3. The obstacle 4. Real reason 5. Stated reason
In Chapter 1, what does Foster give as an example of a journey that is not a quest?
A daily drive to work and back home
What does a "failed" meal represent?
A fail in building a relationship