English Final Exam
Posted 05-15-08 at 09:55 AM by mega_option101
Alight so I have my English Final Exam today at 11:30... These are the terms that I need to memorize and define during the exam:
Affective Fallacy: is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader. In other words using your own emotional response to the text determines its true value.
Unity: an ordering of all elements in a work of art or literature so that such contributes to a unified aesthetic effect.
Intentional Fallacy: is a term from literary criticism used to describe the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it. In other words you receive a false sense of the truth behind the work of art in doing so.
Reader Sympathy: when the feelings and emotions of the reader are deeply understood and even appreciated by another person/character.
Binary Opposition: Means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined against what it is not. ie. Black excludes White.
Signifier: The signifier is the pointing finger, the word, the sound-image. It is in the interpretation of the signifier that meaning is created.
Signified: The signified is the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated by the signifier. Whilst the signifier is more stable, the signified varies between people and contexts.
Patriarchal ideology: is a set of ideas that support the power of men.
Separate Spheres: idea about the segregation of the two spheres of life: the public and the private.
Proletariat: is that class of society which does not have ownership of the means of production. ie. working class.
Oedipus Complex: when the child feels sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and desires death of the parent of the same sex.
Repression: The rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impluses.
The exam is divided into six parts:
I best get to it now
Affective Fallacy: is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader. In other words using your own emotional response to the text determines its true value.
Unity: an ordering of all elements in a work of art or literature so that such contributes to a unified aesthetic effect.
Intentional Fallacy: is a term from literary criticism used to describe the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it. In other words you receive a false sense of the truth behind the work of art in doing so.
Reader Sympathy: when the feelings and emotions of the reader are deeply understood and even appreciated by another person/character.
Binary Opposition: Means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined against what it is not. ie. Black excludes White.
Signifier: The signifier is the pointing finger, the word, the sound-image. It is in the interpretation of the signifier that meaning is created.
Signified: The signified is the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated by the signifier. Whilst the signifier is more stable, the signified varies between people and contexts.
Patriarchal ideology: is a set of ideas that support the power of men.
Separate Spheres: idea about the segregation of the two spheres of life: the public and the private.
Proletariat: is that class of society which does not have ownership of the means of production. ie. working class.
Oedipus Complex: when the child feels sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and desires death of the parent of the same sex.
Repression: The rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impluses.
The exam is divided into six parts:
- Definitions of the terms
- Question on the movie "Shakespeare In Love"
- Two Short Stories (answer a question to one of them)
- Two sonnets by Shakespeare (answer question on one of them)
- Question on article "How to become a writer"
- Essay Question of the novel Disgrace
I best get to it now
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Yeesh.
Flashbacks of my time as a student of English.  Good luck to you!  |
Posted 05-15-08 at 11:38 AM by txtmstrjoe
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Thanks!!
I am officially done with College English!! Now on to University for another 4 years... |
Posted 05-15-08 at 02:08 PM by mega_option101
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Wait, why would we care about this? lol
Best of luck with the final, dood. |
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Posted 05-17-08 at 04:29 PM by pow3rtr1p
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