Exam: Saturday May 30th 12pm-2pm (ACW 206): if you have any examination conflicts please contact Ruth Knechtel immediately to make arrangements to write a supplemental examination.
Exam Review:
Today's review was a mock-review, therefore, there are no notes to post. Below please find exam information and a couple of sample answers to sections one and two.
Also, please find below a list of terms from which you might wish to study (errors and omissions excepted).
Exam info:
3 sections.
First section: Definitions:
You will have choices in this section 9 choices – you answer 5
Give a definition of the term and two textual examples that employ the device. You must then explain briefly how each example exemplifies the term. Five marks each – three for definition and one each for example. You must use different examples for each definition.
Second section: Character ID
You will not get a choice here. There will be eight characters named. You must name the text and author for each character. As well, you must briefly explain the function, concept or theme that the character foregrounds. Each answer worth 3 marks.
Third section: Essay worth 50%
You will have a choice between two questions.
Sample answers:
Section One: Definitions
Ersatz:
A synthetic replacement, usually denoting inferiority.
In The Loved One, Waugh highlights Whispering Glades as an embodiment of ersatz religious rituals. He also creates the Happier Hunting Ground as an ersatz version of the already copied WG, thereby creating layers of ersatz, inferior copies.
In “Travels in Hyper-reality,” Eco travels across California documenting ersatz versions of art, cities, animals, and sentiment. For example, he explains that Disney World is an ersatz version of a “real” city. Throughout this article, Eco complicates the definition’s inferior connotation because, according to his argument, hyper-real versions actually try to improve upon the original.
Section Two: Character ID
The Queen of Hearts:
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
The Queen of Hearts foregrounds the text’s criticism of the absurdity of authority and knowledge because she is constantly creating arbitrary and non-sense rules that must be followed simply because of her status.
List of terms (errors and omissions excepted)
Fable
Menippean Satire
Horation satire
Juvenalian satire
Metaphor
Simile
Pun
Invective
Direct satire
Indirect Satire
Sarcasm
Projector
Proposal
Narration
Digression
Proof
Refutation
Conclusion
Rhetoric
Rhetorical question
Diminution
Convention
Mock epic/ Mock Heroic
Heroic couplet
Bathos
Anti-climax
Epigram
Invocation to a muse
Syllepsis
Periphrasis
Parody
Juxtaposition |
Dystopia
Anthropomorphism
Fable
Allegory
Propaganda
Irony
Verbal irony
Dramatic Irony
Structural irony
Tragic irony
Aestheticism
Aesthetic movement
Aesthete
Dandy
Farce
Paradox
Oxymoron
Platitude
Pragmatism
Relativism
Positivism
Personalism
Situational ethics
Unreliable, fallible or naïve narrator
Double-vocality |
Post-Colonial Theory
Empire
Mimicry
Ersatz
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Other-ing
Simulation (Baudrillard)
Defamiliarization
Magic Realism
Socialist realism (Social realism)
Grotesque
Pleasure and displeasure
Grotesque body
Cosmic body
Carnival
Carnival laughter
Pathos
Humanism
Julian and Gregorian calendars
Skaz
Absurd
Fantastic
Abjection
Kristeva |
Hutcheon
High burlesque
Low burlesque
Pastiche
Appropriation
metafiction
Intertexuality
Representation
Double-coded politics
Modernism
Found art
Plato’s Cave
Fairy tale
Context
Gothic romance
Semiotics
Sign
Signified
Signifier
Sign exchange value
Use value
Performance vs. parody
Hyperreality
Dadaism
Modernism
Socialism
Surrealism
bricolage
E.&O.E. (errors and
omissions excepted) |
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