LITERARY TERMS
MAXINE GREENE
MLA
EDITING
NABOKOV
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An allusion requires this in order to work 

Shared knowledge between the poet and the reader 

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Greene begins her essay "Imagination" with 3 works by this poet 

Wallace Stevens 

100

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. 

100

When do you use the possessive case 

When you want to show ownership of an object, idea, or feeling 

100

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) 

200

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 

200

Define ALIENATION as it appears in the essay "Imagination" 

What is the loss of a vital connection between the self and 'things' (Stevens) 

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What are the components of a signal phrase 

Author and signal verb 


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What 2 things must agree in number a sentence 

Subject and verb 

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Nabokov's description of the impersonal imagination 

The authentic instrument to be used by the reader. An artistic harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind. The maintenance of a certain aloofness in the reader's mind. 
300
A possible theme to "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" 

It is up to men in their relations between each other to preserve human dignity 

300

Name at least 2 periods in Greene's historical survey of the imagination 

Ancient period, 17th, 18th centuries 

300

Main difference between summary and paraphrase 

Length 

300

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. 

300

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)

400

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. 

400

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...

400

Long quotes have at least how many lines 

Four 

400

Identify the ANTECEDENT in the sentence, "When she was attacked, Kitty Genovese was on her way home from work." 

Kitty Genovese 

400

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)

500

Give an example of the use of metaphor in literature 

"The Lightning is a Yellow Fork" 

500

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

500

Five signal verbs 

What is acknowledge, claims, states, argues, refutes ...

500

The difference between a compound and complex sentence 

Compound sentence has two independent clauses. Complex sentence has a dependent clause and an independent clause. 

500

The difference between 'goodness' and 'badness' as Nabokov sees it (375-376)

See p. 375-376