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Mythology
Structure In Literature
Theory of Literature
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What year did Frye publish The Educated Imagination?

1963

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What resource should be the basis of literary training? Why?

Bible 

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What are the four genres mentioned by Frye in this chapter?

Tragedy, comedy, romance, and irony. 
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When teaching literature, where must we start (what is the core of literature as described by Frye)? 

Poetry

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What age group did Frye say he was specifically targeting when it comes to educating the imagination?

Children

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When was Frye Born? (full date)

July 14, 1912

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In mythology, writers frequently explore .............. and .................

symbolic language and archetypal figures.

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Why is it important to form a habit of identifying different structures in literature?

A person will better be able to interpret and imagine various texts by comparing different forms of it.

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What is the "practice" of literature?

The production of literature by all types of writers. 

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What did Frye take the title of the chapter from? 

A series of sonnets by Dylan Thomas. 

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What study did Frye do that set him on his critical career path?

The study of William Blake

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Frye explains that myths serve as the ......... to comprehending the world and ..............

- basis

- human experiences

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What example did Frye use to talk about the importance of being able to identify structures in literature?

“A student who acquires this habit will see how the comedy Shakespeare he’s studying has the same general structure as the battered old movie he saw on television last night.” (Frye 69).

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What is the theory of literature as described by Frye?

Criticism; the activity of uniting literature with society and with the different contexts that literature itself has.

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What are the three contexts of the study of English?

  1. Context of languages other than English

  2. Context of the arts other than literature

  3. The relation of literature to other subjects

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