5 Feb 2007
Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31)
I'm not actually asking you to turn in all the exercises, but please do try your hand at differentiating between aphorisms and epigrams.
Remember... the point of an aphorism is to communicate a point with clarity and precision. The point of an epigram is to be witty, so while it may make a moral statement or communicate a universal truth, it does so through some kind of linguistic twist or reversal.
So if it makes you smile, it's probably an epigram; if it makes you stoke your chin thoughtfully, it's probably an aphorism.
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Thank You, Juvenal
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Anton Chekhov and David Mamet walk into a bar...
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Drama may be classified according to the literary period in which it was written"...
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I Learn Something New Everday!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A dramatic monologue is a poem that is spoken by a fictional narrator who is clearly different from the author in age, situation, or gender."...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A dramatic monologue is a poem that is spoken by a fictional narrator who is clearly different from the author in age, situation, or gender."...
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Who knew?
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Oxymoron of Closet Drama
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The exception to that mode of presentation is the closet drama, which is meant to be read rather than performed." Hamilton, page 1...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "The exception to that mode of presentation is the closet drama, which is meant to be read rather than performed." Hamilton, page 1...
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This Fits Me Well!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Satire has been popular throughout the history of English literature, from the ridicule of vanity, promiscuity, and impiety in Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" and "The Par...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Satire has been popular throughout the history of English literature, from the ridicule of vanity, promiscuity, and impiety in Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" and "The Par...
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Satire and the Animals on the Farm
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Other satires target a group or set of people, such as the members of the American military establishment in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, or an institution, such as totali...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Other satires target a group or set of people, such as the members of the American military establishment in Joseph Heller's Catch-22, or an institution, such as totali...
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Yin and Yang
Excerpt: One major distinction is between the novel of incident, in which the main focus is on the course and outcome of events in the PLOT, and the novel of character, in which the primary interest is in the PROTAGONIST'S thoughts,...
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Bildungsroman! What?!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Novels may also be categorized according to subtypes, which depend on any one of a number of distinguishing features. I found this book to be very informative and...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Novels may also be categorized according to subtypes, which depend on any one of a number of distinguishing features. I found this book to be very informative and...
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Labels
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Wow who knew there were so many terms to define a piece of literature. Catergories, sub catergories, sub-sub categories. Why must everything have a label? why can't it...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Wow who knew there were so many terms to define a piece of literature. Catergories, sub catergories, sub-sub categories. Why must everything have a label? why can't it...
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Applying these literary terms. . .
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Other examples of dramatic monologues are T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' ..."...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Other examples of dramatic monologues are T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' ..."...
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Don't Use Epigrams in Your Epitaph
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (19) How clever. What better way to explain epigram than through an example personifying...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (19) How clever. What better way to explain epigram than through an example personifying...
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Poetry Is So Complicated
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) ""A poem is a composition written for performance by the human voice."...
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Letters to God
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Reflection on Essential Literary Terms
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I thought that this book was very informative and thorough with literary terms. The section I found most interesting was about novels. There were many new terms that...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) I thought that this book was very informative and thorough with literary terms. The section I found most interesting was about novels. There were many new terms that...
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People can sure be Sarcastic
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Epi What!?
Excerpt: "It was a brief verse intended for inscription on a monument, such as a tombstone or a building."Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Closet drama???
Excerpt: The exception is the closet drama, which is intended to be read rather than performed. Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (1-31) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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