AP Literature? Flashcards
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8482825133 | spring | new life, youth | 0 | |
8482825138 | summer | growth, maturity | 1 | |
8482828638 | fall/autumn | old age, death | 2 | |
8482832089 | winter | cleanse, isolation, depression | 3 | |
8482843017 | WYRD | fate | 4 | |
8482849594 | classical hero | royal, divine, extraordinary feats, ideal w/ one major flaw, physical suffering, unusual death, fights for honor | 5 | |
8482863391 | medieval hero | christian, common birth, battle is test of manhood, chastity, moral, follows hierarchy, avenge honor | 6 | |
8482874731 | romantic hero | birth is unimportant, internal battle, own rules, brain over brawn, moody, isolated, introspective, passionate, loyalty for projects or similar people | 7 | |
8482888072 | modern hero | world has no internal order, light in pool of dark, main goal is to survive, lives in messed up society, internal struggles (drugs), no sense of community | 8 | |
8482902663 | motifs of Beowulf | fate, reputation, lineage, good vs evil, loyalty, christianity, nature, light vs dark, pride, wisdom, affluence | 9 | |
8482916926 | motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 10 | |
8482935775 | heorot symbol | community, brotherhood, kinship | 11 | |
8482938674 | grendel symbol | exile, evil, satan, demon, darkness | 12 | |
8482962231 | beowulf narrator's POV | Third Person (Omniscient) | 13 | |
8482967250 | frankenstien POV | Robert Walton- letters, quotes Victor Frankenstein's first-person narrative at length Victor- quotes the monster's first-person narrative Elizabeth and Alphonse- letters | 14 | |
8483000356 | sublime | -experiences of awe, terror and danger -nature as the most sublime object, capable of generating the strongest sensations in its beholders -the feeling we get when we encountering something in nature that's a mixture of terror and beauty | 15 | |
8483235255 | romantic period | women's place was in the home with children | 16 | |
8483240593 | motifs | nature vs nurture, sometimes women to want kids, unloved child becomes monster, failure to love your child, abandonment | 17 | |
8483252651 | gothic themes | repressed sexuality, hero is chaste and pursued by father figure (ew), women explore sexuality, Frankenstein has sexual undertones | 18 | |
8483267426 | Mary Shelly | parents are famous writers, Godwin and Wollstencraft, husband is Percy, identifies with victor "mother", identifies with creature "abandoned and unloved" | 19 | |
8483284733 | anti-type | person who completes the soul, very similar to themselves | 20 | |
8483296437 | motifs frankenstein | science, nature, ambition vs restraint, curiosity, knowledge, responsibility | 21 | |
8483303174 | Tabula Rasa | clean slate, knows nothing at birth | 22 | |
8483313108 | byronic hero | smart, educated, sophisticated, introspective, mysterious, struggles with integrity, sexual attraction, moodiness, distaste for social norms, outcast, exile, dark attribute, self-destructive | 23 | |
8483360357 | Victor (tragic hero) | string character, noble birth, flaw in character, great weakness leads to downfall, moment of tragic choice, catastrophe, potential to tun into anti-hero | 24 | |
8483371386 | anti-hero | foil heros mission, smart, superhuman power, evil, misunderstood, wronged, ambition, outcast, physical deformity | 25 | |
8483501837 | themes of frankenstien | DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE, SUBLIME NATURE, MONSTROSITY, SECRECY, | 26 | |
8483511825 | motifs frankenstien | passive women, abortion | 27 |