Major Works
A major work we've covered that was an epistolary novel.
What is Frankenstein?
The era we've covered in class that focuses the most on nature and human emotion.
What is the Romantic Period?
Author that wrote one of the first science fiction novels.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Type of analysis that includes the occupations and daily mannerisms of the characters.
What is setting analysis?
The structure of an English Sonnet.
What is an introduction, evidence and reasoning, and volta as the conclusion?
Specific things Candide makes fun of.
What is Catholic Church, Optimism, Pessimism, Duality, logical fallacies, etc.
Literary period where works emphasized the elite.
What is the Elizabethan Era?
Made Shakespeare unique during his era.
What is being a non-elite author?
What is the formalist criticism lens?
Defining themes of Italian Sonnets.
What is god and love?
Hamlet's tragic flaw.
What is inaction?
The way the globe theatre was organized.
What is with the elite higher up and poorer people near the bottom?
Focus of John Donne's Poems.
What is god and the duality between the sins of live and heaven?
What is Objective Correlative?
Type of literature emphasized the supernatural and fear/horror.
What is gothic literature?
The manifestation of Lady MacBeth's Guilt.
What is scrubbing her hands of non-existent blood and suicide?
Common themes in Greek Tragedy.
What is death and the suffering faced in life?
Inspired Alan Ginsberg.
Who is Walt Whitman?
The two main things to keep in mind when formulating a thesis statement.
What is keeping it universal and relating it back to analysis of the work?
Defining characteristics of greek tragedy.
What is the chorus, fatals flaws, and fate?
The driving force behind many of the actions in Oedipus Rex.
What is fate?
What is the Romantic Era?
Author that had issues with Leibniz.
Who is Voltaire?
Interchangeable terms signaling an author's total body of work.
What is Oeuvre/corpus?
What is metaphysical poetry?