Unit Review: Short Stories.

Class Facts

100

This student name appears twice in class (it doesn't start with J). 

Sara / Sarah

200

These students had to debate the more difficult position on the reader response to dystopias. 

Dalia and Lucy

300

These two students highlighted the lack of a falling action in "Orientation" (and we discussed the implications to narrative empathy). 

Adina and Kamilia

400

In Perusall comments--and in last week's class--this student discussed whether the short story format itself was effective to raise awareness.

Alicia

500

In our first class together, this student mentioned that having slides in advance would help (the teacher hasn't listened). 

Emma

Theorists

100

In interview, this theorist said that novels cannot be "magical little pills that will solve society's ills."

Suzanne Keen

200

This German playwright, although stoic in his portraits, was actually famous for his comedies (and his theory). 

Gustav Freytag

300

This scientist examined connections between brain chemistry and Freytag's narrative arc.

Paul Zac

400

Our class characterized this theorist as "Russian Larry David"

Who is Tzetan Todorov?

500

This novelist presented a narrative arc for Cinderella.

Kurt Vonnegut

Theories

100

This literary philosophy--common in a 101 course--suggests that all readers will objectively react to a story the same way, so long as it is well-built.

Formalism

200

Van Gogh broke from realism and played with movement and colour, helping to usher in this massive art movement.

Modernism

300

Poet William Blake wrote poems that were intended to rouse readers--especially the poems we read about London--in this literary era.

Romanticism

400

Albert Camus theorized ways to cope with this element of life on earth.

Absurdity

500

Diego Rivera and this painter were the public leaders of the Mexican modernist movement.

Frida Kahlo

Class Facts II

100

This student sits in the back left aisle seat. (It isn't Félix.)

Henry

200

These three students produced an extremely detailed narrative arc (with three angles).

Aida, Nelson, and Alicia

300

This student suggested that Albert Camus' philosophy just seemed to justify conformity.

Lucy

400

This student's name sounds like a famous counter-culture magazine, although it is spelled differently.

Wietz ("Vice")

500

This student shares a name with a famous Professor of comic book lore.

Xavier

The Fine Details

100

In this workplace, if you ask too many questions, ________________.

you may be let go

200

The narrator of "The Immortals" was most likely forced to retire from this profession.

Teaching

300

True or false: the hero of "Friday Black" gives his mother a jacket, to prove his love for her through material.

False: he gives it away to save Angela. Maybe this makes him round, or maybe he just says it so we feel he's likeable.

400

Don't speak with this character in "Orientation", unless you want to know your future.

Anika Bloom

500

Although this student was almost in an accident on Notre-Dame, they were unfazed. 

Nathan