Deadline
1. Note: June 24, 2015 p.m. 8:00
2. Final Paper: June 24, 2015 p.m. 12:00 (mailbox & e-mail)
- Work Cited (p. 697)
Literature, in its broadest sense, is any written work; etymologically the term derives from Latin literatura/litteratura "writing formed with letters", although some definitions include spoken or sung texts. More restrictively, it is writing that possesses literary merit, and language that foregrounds literariness, as opposed to ordinary language. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose; it can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorised according to historical periods or their adherence to certain aesthetic features or expectations (genre).
imaginative, creative, artistic
<Note>
1. Format: indent or skip a line
2. One central idea in one paragraph (thesis statement & general idea)
3. All other ideas directly related to main
4. Any length
5. Details (why important & reasons & examples)
6. Flow-bridges (key terms- avoid repetition)
7. end with bridge (or start with bridge)
● Writing reference: OWL at Perdue
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. This section contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.
● Essay
Essays are generally scholarly pieces of writing giving the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet and a short story.
Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population are counterexamples. In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
Context
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/context.html
Character List
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/characters.html
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/themes.html
● Helena
Helena is a fictional character and one of the four young lovers - Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena - featured in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which is a play about lovers, fairies and mechanicals. It was written to be played in the Globe theater in 1596.
Demetrius is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeare's play. A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is a young Athenian man who is engaged to a young Athenian girl named Helena. He abandons Helena, a woman whom he has courted and pursues Hermia, whose father Egeus finds Demetrius to be the better suitor. However, Hermia does not love Demetrius, but instead she loves a man called Lysander. Demetrius's obstinate pursuit of Hermia throws love out of balance among the Athenian lovers. He eventually comes to his senses, due to a love potion given to him by fairies, and returns Helena's love. The storyline is complex and it shows the difficulties of true love through comedy.
● Comedy
According to modern views, Comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.
● Farce
In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. Farces are often highly incomprehensible plot-wise (due to the many plot twists and random events that occur), but viewers are encouraged not to try to follow the plot in order to avoid becoming confused and overwhelmed. Farce is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and broadly stylized performances. Farces have been written for the stage and film. Furthermore, a farce is also often set in one particular location, where all events occur.
● Mock
In object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. A programmer typically creates a mock object to test the behavior of some other object, in much the same way that a car designer uses a crash test dummy to simulate the dynamic behavior of a human in vehicle impacts.
● Mansion
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word "manse" originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). 'Manor' comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would remain there—hence it is easy to see how the word 'Mansion' came to have its meaning.
● Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
● Parable
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
● Requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead, is a Mass in the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal. It is frequently, but not necessarily, celebrated in the context of a funeral.
Musical settings of the propers of the Requiem Mass are also called Requiems, and the term has subsequently been applied to other musical compositions associated with death and mourning, even when they lack religious or liturgical relevance.
Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check fraud; he became so experienced that the FBI eventually turned to him to help in catching other check forgers. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, and Nathalie Baye in supporting roles.
● Death of a Salesman and the American Dream
● Death of a Salesman by Shmoop
● Vocabulary
para- stands for at or to one side of, beside, side by side
e.g. parallel /parable
hypo- stands for under
e.g. hypothesis
imagine (v.) [ɪˋmædʒɪn]
definition: to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
sentence: You may imagine their astonishment at finding the room empty.
imaginary (adj.) [ɪˋmædʒə͵nɛrɪ]
definition: existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied
senence: All the characters in this book are imaginary.
imaginative (adj.) [ɪˋmædʒə͵netɪv]
definition: characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination
sentence: The mind of the storyteller has great imaginative powers.
low (adj.) [lo]
law (n.) [lɔ]
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