World Lit Exam 1 With Complete Solutions
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Why study literature? - ANS Offers access to vibrant forms of expressions,
challenges us to think about the world in new ways, shows us how to read
critically, explores how we communicate idea/share experiences and why,
offers insight into how we see the world, creates an open gateway to
understanding complex values, individuals, groups, helps us imagine what it
would be like to be someone else, influenced by historical and cultural
events, questions universal truths, helps understand the human condition
Literature = - ANS study of human communication
How do we study literature? - ANS Efferent mode, aesthetic mode, didactic
mode
Efferent mode - ANS approach directed towards gaining info; fact-oriented,
attends to structure of language and analysis of literary elements, draws
conclusions, generates opinion and text
Aesthetic mode - ANS Directed toward what the reader is experiencing
during the reading of the text; emotions during reading
Didactic mode - ANS Directed toward looking for a theme or moral in text
Criticism - ANS collective, enterprise, shared between people, arising out of
conversation, argument, shared thought
Epic of Gilgamesh belongs to what period? - ANS The Classical Period
, The Classical Period - ANS 1200-455AD
Parts of the classical period - ANS Homeric/Heroic Period, Classical Greek
Period, Classical Roman Period, Patristic Period
Homeric/Heroic Period took place from - ANS 1200-800BC
Homer's Illiad and the Odessey belonged to ________ period - ANS
homeric/heroic (within classical)
Greek legends were passed along - ANS orally
Classical Greek Period took place from - ANS 800-200BC
Philosophers during classical greek period - ANS Plato, Aesop, Socrates,
Aristotle, Euripides
Classical Roman period took place from - ANS 200BC-400AD
Roman imperial leaders - ANS Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Virgil,
Lucretius, Cicero
Patristic period took place from - ANS 70-455 AD
What happened during Pantristic Period - ANS Early Christian writings
appear, Christianity spreads across Europe, End of Roman Empire
Significant people during Patristic Period - ANS St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, St.
Jerome
Epic of Gilgamesh written in - ANS 2500BC
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