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What is home?
Where loves are rightly ordered
What does mimetic mean?
To represent
How is literature mimetic?
It’s a verbal representation
Tells us what and how to love/shapes our loves
What does “In Medius Res" mean?
Starting in the middle of a story
What type of literature always begins “In medius res”?
Epics
What are Aristotle’s 4 causes?
Material
Formal
Efficient
Final
What is the material cause?
The matter of the literature, the content
What is the formal cause?
The shape of the literature
Type of literature
What is the efficient cause?
Who wrote the piece of literature
What is the final cause?
The purpose of the literature
What are epithets?
Descriptive phrases about a character determined by the meter
What are epic similes?
Saying something is “______ as…” followed by a long picture of what it’s like
What is nostos?
A Greek genre that includes tales of homecoming
What type of meter is used in Greek poetry?
Dactylic Hexameter
Has 6 metrical feet in one line of verse
What type of meter is used in English poetry?
Iambic Pentameter
What does the word “thesis” come from?
The staff that bards used to make the underlying rhythm of the story
What is an epic?
A long, narrative poem about the origin of who we are as a people (national identity)
Beowulf, Odysseus
How do epics always begin?
In medius res
What is a foil?
A scene that parallels the story and reflects it but is slightly different
What is a theodicy?
Answers the question of whether/how God is just
What is craft?
Ability to make stuff (like Trojan horse or verbal lies) or to disguise
What does “poetry” mean?
Make
We are God’s poem
What does “agon” from pro- or antagonist mean?
Struggle
What is a protagonist?
Person you root for in a struggle
What are the 4 cardinal virtues?
Courage
Temperance
Justice
Prudence
What is justice?
Giving to each man what is owed
What is a parable?
Something set alongside to help us understand the real thing
What is apostrophe?
A direct address to an inanimate object or a person not there
What is dramatic irony?
When you know something that the character doesn’t
What does Odysseus mean?
Bearer of pain
He carries and inflicts pain
What is oikos?
Greek word for home
What is chiasmus?
A rhetorical figure of speech with flipped parallelism
Inner elements are the most important
What are kennings?
Metaphorical compounds of 2 words to describe 1 thing
What is the root word of monster?
Demonstrate = to show
Monster’s demonstrate things in stories
What are the 3 Greek types of speech?
Epideictic
Forensic
Deliberative
What is epideictic speech?
Rhetoric of praise or blame with a moral lesson
For Beowulf, Inferno, and Purgatorio
What is forensic speech?
Debate about what happened
What is deliberative speech?
What to do in the future
What is kin?
Family
What does “ubi sunt” refer to?
Where have they gone? Where are they? It’s a lament of the passage of time, but recognizes good to be thankful for in it.
What is a comedy?
A village song that begins bad but goes to good
Opposite of tragedies
What is Terza Rima?
A rhyme scheme that creates an unbroken cycle
ABA BCB CBC DCD…
Form of Dante’s comedy
What does polysemantic mean?
Many meanings
What are the 4 levels at which to read the Bible?
Literal/historical
Allegorical
Moral
Anagogical
What is the literal/historical level?
What happened
What is the allegorical level?
City
What does it mean for the church
What is the moral level?
Soul
what does it mean for your soul
What is the anagogical level?
Ultimate blessed state of Christians
What does it mean eschatologically
What does telos mean?
What something is oriented to
What are the 3 theological virtues?
Faith
Hope
Love
What is synecdoche?
Using a part to represent the whole
Referring to Dante by his beard
What is felix culpa?
In Paradise Lost, the sin of Adam is viewed as fortunate, because it brought about the blessedness of the Redemption
The fall was a good thing because of the good that comes from it which is the redemption
What is the Act of Oblivion?
It is the law that Charles II passed in 1660 when the monarchy was restored to forgive and forget what all the bad guys against the monarchy did except for the ring leaders.
Milton was one of the ring leaders on the list.
What is the genre of Paradise Lost?
It’s an English Biblical Epic
It is a political outlet
It comes from the Bible
It disses all the virtues Homer praises, begins in Medius Res, and invokes the Heavenly muse.
What is beatific vision?
The direct knowledge of God enjoyed by the angels in Heaven
Seeing God
What is the genre of the Divine Comedy?
Comedy
What is dialectic?
When people hold different perspectives but want to find one truth through logical reasoning
What is virtue?
Excellences that successful people need or a trait, quality, or behavior that shows moral goodness or excellence.
Grow virtue through good goals and faithful practice
Restrains worse problems or vices
What is Lethe?
The river of forgetfulness in Hades whose water when drunk made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth
Blank verse
Verse that doesn’t rhyme but usually still uses iambic pentameter
Used in Paradise Lost
What is convocation?
Collection of voices called together
What is sublime?
Something that happens that exceeds our sensibilities
Rational over senses. We can rationalize about what we see even if we don’t understand it or can’t sense it
Awareness of an inescapable moral duty
The sublime can only happen away from home
What is providence?
Divine providence is the governance of God by which He, with wisdom and love, cares for and directs all things in the universe.
What is curiosity?
A strong desire to know or learn something
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