LITERARY TERMS
An allusion requires this in order to work
Shared knowledge between the poet and the reader
Greene begins her essay "Imagination" with 3 works by this poet
Wallace Stevens
Why do we use signal phrases?
To cue to the reader you're about to discuss someone else's work. To integrate different sources in one body of text.
When do you use the possessive case
When you want to show ownership of an object, idea, or feeling
How Nabokov characterizes what he calls the 'lowly imagination'
Turns for support to the simple emotions. Is definitely of a personal nature. The reader identifies himself with a character in a book. (4)
The difference between contextual and public symbols
Public symbols are those object or events that history has invested with rich meanings and associations. Contextual symbols are objects or events that are symbolic by virtue of the poet's handling of them in a particular work, i.e. by virtue of context
Define ALIENATION as it appears in the essay "Imagination"
What is the loss of a vital connection between the self and 'things' (Stevens)
What are the components of a signal phrase
Author and signal verb
What 2 things must agree in number a sentence
Subject and verb
Nabokov's description of the impersonal imagination
It is up to men in their relations between each other to preserve human dignity
Name at least 2 periods in Greene's historical survey of the imagination
Ancient period, 17th, 18th centuries
Main difference between summary and paraphrase
Length
What's the problem with the sentence, "Juan Williams compares contemporary music with music that was popular fifty years earlier."
Verb shifts from present to past.
Where Nabokov locates "the art of literature" in the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story. (5)
The difference between TONE and MOOD
Tone is the set of emotions an author imparts to a work. Mood is the set of emotions a reader takes away from a work.
Explain what one of the poets mentioned on p. 308-309 did with the imagination
Keats spoke of it as an independent activity, the center of poetic sensibility. Baudelaire saw it as a governing principle. Rilke saw it has capable of primal transformation...
Long quotes have at least how many lines
Four
Identify the ANTECEDENT in the sentence, "When she was attacked, Kitty Genovese was on her way home from work."
Kitty Genovese
Two results Nabokov identifies once commonsense is overcome.
Secret connections among metaphors and it allows for an irrational belief in the goodness of men (373)
Give an example of the use of metaphor in literature
"The Lightning is a Yellow Fork"
How the imagination is enlarged, acc. to Greene on p. 312.
To perceive an object, idea, event, or feeling in the vast range of unexplored relations in which it stands to other phenomena
Five signal verbs
What is acknowledge, claims, states, argues, refutes ...
The difference between a compound and complex sentence
Compound sentence has two independent clauses. Complex sentence has a dependent clause and an independent clause.
The difference between 'goodness' and 'badness' as Nabokov sees it (375-376)
See p. 375-376