Chapters 1-12
What are the five characteristics needed for a quest?
A quester
A place to go
A start reason to go there
Challenges and trials
A real reason to go there
Foster explains why most literature can be called "political." Summarize his argument.
It engages problems that occur in jthe real world, socially and politically.
Dionysos the god of wine
What is the two main purposes of the Chorus?
-To fill the audience in on details of the story
-Provide musical part of the play
What does it mean when a character goes south?
It means things are going to get bad and they are starting to cause trouble
What is the differnce between acts of communinion and acts of vampires?
Acts of Vampires will eat with you to symbolize them using others for their own advantage but for acts of communion both people will usually beneift from it.
If you came across a character flying in a piece of literature, they are one or more of the following:
Superhero,skijumper, crazy fictional, suspended on wires, angle, heavnely symbol.
What was the classical period?
growth of ideas in math, science, buildings, and philosophey.
What is the spectacle of a play?
The wow factor or the most memorable part of the play.
What did Sphocles bring to Greek tragedies?
The change and use of scenery in plays.
What is the difference between a symbol and an allegory?
A symbol is something meaningful like an object inside of a book while an allegory is more of a moral lesson throughout the whole book.
Does a character always have to actually fly in order for there to be "flying" in a piece of literature? Explain.
No,symbolically things can be set free.
What is the point/lesson of a Greek tragedy?
To porduce suffering/insight and arousing pity snf fear on the part of the audience.
What was the role of fate?
Belived that fate was controlled by the gods and there was no escaping or changing ones fate
What does the season of summer mean in literature?
Youth
What does foster mean when he says that "there is not such thing as a wholly original piece lf work?"
Everthing in literatuer has come from a different work.
Who does Foster accuse of teahing writers to encode sexual messages in their writing and of teaching readers to decode sexual messages in literature?
Signing Frued
Who were the tree great tragic poets
Aeshylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
What is Hubris?
When the hero breaks a moral law
What does the season of winter mean in literature?
death, sadness
What might be the reason a character walking through the rain, and how is it different from snow?
The changing of a character, snow is purity and innocence.
What are some of the roles geopraphy plays in literature and what are some of the effects of geopraphy on literature?
Self discovery of character.
What three things should a Greek tragedy do?
-Envoke pity or fear on the audience
-Hero must be admirable or good
-Heros fall comes about by a personal fatal flaw
What is Nemesis?
The punishment for hero's mistake/fate
What does the season of spring mean in literature?
birth