Test #1 Study Guide

Just got back from an invigorating experience at the cardio room on campus. Now exhausted and sweaty as all hell, I will post some important information for our test TOMORROW!

1. DH Lawrence said: "Trust the TALE, not the TELLER."
2. Know definitions for CENTRIPETAL (inside of the text - formal) and CENTRIFUGAL (outside of the text).
3. In which of Frye's boxes does PHARMAKOS (scapegoat) exist?: IRONIC COMEDY
4. Baseball umpire in Frye (pg. 46) - deals with the umpire being a scapegoat - the person we, as fans, turn to to verbally abuse and want to kill (the scapegoat).
5. Frye in a nutshell: "All of literature is displaced MYTH."
6. Aristotle's definition of TRAGEDY: "Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is SERIOUS, COMPLETE and OF A CERTAIN MAGNITUDE."
7. Dromenon - something that is done (Aristotle thought that imitation was action, so it was literally (letterarily) done.
8. Don Quixote (pg. 427) - What does the cannon believe about literature?: It should be DIDACTIC and have a moral. Didactic meaning: teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson (thanks to dictionary.com)
9. LOGOS - power to create through the agency of the word (Idea of Order at Key West - based on the Creation myth)
10. The sense of REALITY is higher in tragedy than in comedy.
11. All comedy is directed at AN INFLEXIBLE PERSON.
12. Sidney's thoughts on nature: "Nature only gives us a BRAZEN world, whereas poetry gives us a GOLDEN world."
13. Abram's "Grid" that's not really a grid:
World - Ancient
Audience - Neoclassical
Work - Modern
Artist - Romance
14. According to Frye, all structures of words are partly rhetorical and hence literary. Quotation from pg. 350 - "...all structures in words are partly rhetorical, and hence literary, and that the notion of a scientific or philosophical verbal structure free of rhetorical elements is an illusion." Meaning: ALL THINGS ARE LITERARY. ALL THINGS ARE LITERATURE. IT IS EVERYWHERE. IT IS EVERYTHING.
15. Plato banishes poets in Book X of The Republic - why?: He thinks they are USELESS and DERANGED and LIARS
16. Which box does PATHOS belong?: LOW MIMETIC (tear-jerkers)
17. Mythos - Plot (story)
Ethos - Character
Dianoia - Theme
18. Repeat the last line of Shelley's Defense of Poetry: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
19. We live in the DESCRIPTIVE PHASE or the LOW MIMETIC MODE. We need to get out of it and use our imaginations, eh?
20. Sidney's idea that THE POET NEVER AFFIRMS ANYTHING THEREFORE THEY NEVER LIE.
21. INTENTIONAL PHALLACY - what the poet meant; according to Frye, what the poet meant is THE POEM.
22. TAUTOLOGY -
1.needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”
2.an instance of such repetition.
SPEAKING IN CIRCLES! (Plain Palin).
23. Shelley argues that IMAGINATION IS SUPERIOR TO LOGIC AND REASON. This reminds me of a quote from Einstein (paraphrased) - "Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world." He must have stolen from Shelley.
24. What is an epiphany?: LIGHTBULB!
Sudden MANIFESTATION of the DIVINE
Anagogical
25. Frye (pg. 100) - Lycidas - "In short, we can get a whole liberal education simply by picking up one conventional poem and following its archetypes as they stretch out into the rest of literature."
26. ALAZON - meaning IMPOSTER (2 Types): the Pedant (Professor-esque Obama)
the Soldier ("Respect-me-I'm-a-POW-McCain)
27. METONOMY - something that stands for something else (Frye's opening words in the Symbols chapter): "The other matter concerns the use of the word 'symbol,' which in this essay means any unit of literary structure that can be isolated from critical attention. A word, a phrase, or an image used with some kind of special reference (which is usually what a symbol is taken to mean) are all symbols when they are distinguishable elements in critical analyses (71).

Best of luck to all! See you tomorrow at noon!