芸溱 Selina

Class Notes

1. class riview:

(1) literary epic / oral epic

Virgil → literary epic

ex: Aeneid (the story of Aeneas)

Homer → oral epic

ex: Illiad

(2) leading theme

ex: In Oedipus the king the leading theme is fate

      → man must learn from suffering

2. today's topic

(1) Edith Wharton - "Roman Fever"

Quiz

"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton's last short-story collection, The World Over.

3. definition:

(1) archetype character

(2) affix:

vir- / ver-  (truth)

veritas 真理 (哈佛校訓)

verification

verisimilitude: 20/20, cathedral

virtual reality (I'm virtually impaired → I'm fatigue! )

-tude

altitude

attitude (you got a attitude problem.)

aptitude (SAT: Scholastic Aptitude Test)

-eum   (框起來的範疇)

museum

colosseum

(4) 教堂:

chapel 小教堂

song: Crying in the Chapel

church (general)

cathedral 大主教堂 

 Milan Cathedral 

新竹北大教堂XDD (錯誤示範!!!!!!!!!!)

(5) realism

Literary realism, in contrast to idealism, attempts to represent familiar things as they are. Realist authors chose to depict everyday and banal activities and experiences instead of using a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.

(6) subplot

In fiction, a subplot is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot. Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place or in thematic significance. Subplots often involve a supporting characters, those besides the protagonist or antagonist.

(7) classical unities (action, time, place → all of them called setting)

The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows:

1. unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
2. unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
3. unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.

(8) irony

A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.

Verbal irony: occurs when a word or expression in context means something different from, and usually the opposite of, what it appears to mean; when the intended meaning is harshly critical or satiric, verbal irony becomes sarcasm,

Situational irony: occurs when a character holds a position or has an expectation that is reversed or fulfilled in an unexpected way.

ex: Roman Fever, The gift of the Magi (Magi 東方三賢人→ 象徵最珍貴的禮物)

Dramatic irony: occurs when there is instead a gap between what an audience knows and what a character believes or expects. When this occurs in a tragedy, dramatic irony is sometimes called tragi irony.

ex: Oedipus

Cosmic irony and irony of fateare: sometimes used to refer to situations in which situational irony is the result of fate, chance, the gods, or some other superhuman force or entity.