Literary Eras
The decades of the Elizabethan and Renaissance era, made popular by Shakespeare and Marlowe.
What are the 1500-1600s (16th-17th century)
This sentence is guilty of *this type* of run-on:
Oedipus eventually realizes that the prophecy had come true, he in fact did kill his father and marry his mother without his knowledge, just as he had been told before.
What is a comma splice?
Double Jeopardy: Correctly type this sentence using proper punctuation:
Oedipus eventually realizes that the prophecy had come true; he, in fact, did kill his father and marry his mother without his knowledge, just as he had been told before.
A term for a character's realization about the world, him/herself, and others.
What is an epiphany?
A successful Q1 or Q2 essay will outline how many types of figurative language at the end of the first paragraph?
What is three?
________ is the general term used to describe things that may appear sophisticated or difficult to understand.
__________is the state or quality of being intricate or complicated.
What is complexity?
Double Jeopardy: Aristotle's definition requires there to be a difference, or incongruity, between one's outer and inner ________.
Double Jeopardy: Aristotle called complexity and inexplicable c__________ i____________, which itself is a type of FL known as ___________.
Which of these letters has the correct order of the eras?
A) PostModernism-Romanticism-Realism-Augustan
B) Modernism-PostModernism-Neoclassical-Classical
C) Romantic-Victorian-Modernism-Classical-Augustan
D) Greek/Roman-Elizabethan-Romantic-Victorian-Confessional
E) Neo-Classical-Augustan-Romantic-Beat-Modernism
What is "D?"
Double Jeopardy:
-Period from 1945-Present
-Era reacting against the rationality of Enlightenment Era, instead choosing emotion and lyric poetry
-Sub-genre of post-modernism known for intense emotion and cathartic writing like Plath and Sexton
The RIP word in this sentence to avoid: Oedipus was a very complex character in the play. The progression of the play demonstrates how, due to Oedipus’s complexity he unknowingly sealed his tragic fate.
What is "very?"
A character's tragic flaw, often unseen, bringing about tragic downfall (tragic irony)
What is hamartia?
Double Jeopardy: A type of tragic flaw-it is a stubborn and unfounded arrogance, as seen in Oedipus' dismissal of the blind seer Tereisias.
Prompt: Often timed, characters are complex. How is Oedipus a complex character and how does his complexity impact his life?
Opening paragraph (What's wrong with this?):
Oedipus' early life has shaped his relationship, the play and his life as a whole. His father decided to get rid of him when he was born to try to prevent the prophecy from happening. This later on created a chain of events that ended up making the prophecy come true. As Oedipus grew up he learned his fate and tried his best to prevent it from coming true but before he knew it came true already.
What is:
1) It never mentions the complexity.
2) It never answers the question (lack of thesis)
Which word below is one that should appear frequently with its "friends" like "yet, however," "still," and "al/even though" because these diction choices themselves help communicate complexity:
We can imply that he is a complex character by looking into the play where he claims a specific goal but ends up proving it wrong with his very own actions.
What is "but?"
John Donne's use of conceit in "The Flea" as well archaic language (e..g thee, thou) is best known as this era popular for religious praise and extensive extended metaphor (aka conceit)
What is the Metaphysical Era?
The sentence below is guilty of not writing in the __________ _______ _______.
Oedipus found himself having this pride and determination of being called the savior,
What is the literary present tense?
Double Jeopardy: The verb in the line should be ______.
The moment of reversal in which a character experiences what he/she wanted the least (e.g. John Ryan's powerlessness to save a life or Tommy Ryan's realization of his own racist or at least biased prejudice in the film Crash.)
What is peripety/peripeteia/moment of peripety/anagnorisis?
What should be longer? A body paragraph's use of evidence/quotes or explanation/elaboration?
What is explanation/elaboration?
A score for this essay and the primary reason:
Oedipus doesn’t know the identity of his parents. He goes his entire life not knowing the true identity of his parents. When he goes looking for the truth, it strains his relationship with his wife. He lives his life in the dark, not knowing the truth. He is figuratively blind throughout the play. It is only when he finds the truth that his true relationship with his wife is revealed, that he has “sight”, but at the same time, losing everything. Oedipus’ early life leaves him blind and in the dark and his relationships tense but the truth leaves him literally blind and alone. This generates the overarching theme of sight and blindness in the poem and the downfall of our hero, Oedipus.
What is a 1-1-0 (2); brevity (too short)
Gerard Manley Hopkin's "God's Grandeur" is ironic in its praise of God's omnipotence, yet not ironic as he worries about the lessining influence of God in this British era known for the rise of science, continued rise of rational thought, and, perhaps unrelated, the rise of the middle and poor classes.
What is Victorian?
Double Jeopardy: Within 10 years, given the year assigned to the beginning of this era, beginning with the reign of Queen Victoria?
Double Jeopardy: Within 10 years, give its end date
Whether intentional or not, this structure combining a dependent clause with an independent clause is quite appropriate for essays about complexity, because the structure of a DC, IC is known as a _________ sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
A more concise name for person vs. self conflict?
What is intrapersonal conflict?
Double Jeopardy: Person vs. ________ conflict is better, more concisely known as interpersonal conflict.
The amount of time you should spend annotating vs. writing in each essay?
What is 10/30 minutes?
The lines below employ effective use of a thesis followed by a ________, which will outline the student's body paragraphs:
Oedipus’ early life shapes his own character by creating the ignorance which leads to his downfall, molds his relationships by affecting who he develops relationships with, and ultimately affects the play as a whole by creating the ambiguity that led to his tragic downfall.
What is a sequencer (or outline of supporting reasons/topic sentences?)
William Carlos Williams's "Contempornia" (The 500 p. 41) relies on concrete imagery, not abstract ideas, a feature of this Modernist sub-era.
What is Imagism?
This sentence is guilty of _____ _________
Oedipus can be seen as a complex character.
What is passive voice?
Double Jeopardy: Turn it into active voice.
*This aspect* of Aristotelian tragedy does not mean we feel bad for characters; it means something else.
What is reader sympathy?
Double Jeopardy: What are the three key elements of reader sympathy?
Double Jeopardy: This feature of Aristotelian tragedy is a Greek word loosely translated to "spending time deep in thought.
The primary problem with this portion of someone's Oedipus Rex essay:
The scariest thing possible is to think of you becoming someone you never wanted to become. My biggest fear is becoming my mother, not because she’s a horrible person or has a horrible aura, but because she doesn’t think before reacting. She makes decisions without thinking which may cause her a lifetime of struggles and problems. My family isn’t complicated so I can’t understand what’s happening in Oedipus’s family, but being scared of fighting my own fate and destiny is something that I try to prevent.
What are personal anecdotes that shouldn't be a part of analysis essays?