How to Read Literature Like a Professor Quiz

What is always the real reason for quest?

To gain self knowledge

In Chapter 1, what does Foster give as an example of a journey that is not a quest?

A daily drive to work and back home

Name 5 aspects of a quest

1. The hero

2. The objective

3. The obstacle

4. Real reason

5. Stated reason

Act of breaking bread shows...

Communion

What does a "failed" meal represent?

A fail in building a relationship

The imagery associated with a dinner table most strongly suggests...

Communion and sharing

Besides vampirism being about vampires it's also about

Old figure stealing youth from young figure (sex)

Purpose of ghosts in a story

To teach

5 essentials of a vampire story

1. Innocent young

2. Old figure

3. Stripping youth, energy

4. Continuing of the old

5. Death of the young innocent

Intertextually is

The ongoing interaction or dialogue between old and new texts

What does "there's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature?"

Core structure is based off of an original piece

Why do writers use or quote Shakespeare?

To sound smart

Prose has more scripture than poetry

False

Situations and quotes from the Bible are more common than titles

True

Most early writers did not receive instruction in religion

False

Allusions to biblical sources are used to heighten continuities between religious tradition and the contemporary moment as well as illustrate disparity

True

The biblical naming of characters is important

True

Most of the great tribulations between human beings are detailed in scripture

True

Similar a is a body of story that matters

False

Metonymy is a rhetorical device in which a thing is used to name another thing it is closely related to

True

What is the literary device that is used when referencing the Bible?

Allusion

If a work of literary contains four horsemen bringing death, its alluding to...

The apocalypse

Flight is not a

Biblical allusion

What is the "resonance test"

A text that is bigger in meaning

What is the "literary canon?"

Master list of books

What do authors borrow the most material from?

Children's list

What fairy tale do most writers borrow from?

Hansel and Gretel

Greatest range of human situations?

Biblical

4 struggles involving human beings

Self v self

Self v others

Self v nature

Self v god

Concept of dysfunctional families or personal disintegration originate from

Free, Roman mythology also the Oedipus complex

4 reasons for rain

1. Plot device

2. Set atmosphere

3. Sorrow

4. Democratic situation that affects everyone

Positive affect if rain

Hope, new awakening

Fog symbolizes

Confusion

2 forces that create literary character

Writers

Readers imagination

Plot is character revealed in...

Action according to Aristotle

2 categories of violence in literature

Deliberate and accidental

Difference between symbolism and allegory

Allegory is referring to a specific situation while symbolism is up to the reader to interpret

Example of allegory

Animal farm

2 things a cave symbolizes

Private & shelter

Malthusian thinking is

Welfare system

Charles Dickens is a ________ writer

Social

Political writing is not good because...

It is one dimensional

It does not travel well over time and place

It is programmatic and pushes a single cause

2 ways religion shows up in literature

Allusion & Analogy

Flight does not symbolize

True Love

5 main characteristics of Christ

1. Sacrificial

2. Wounds at hands and feet

3. 33yo

4. Unmarried

5. Humbled beginnings

3 purposes of Christ-Figure

To be a savior

To bolster characters

To be make a point

Story of Daedalus & Icarus

Dad & son trapped on an island. Dad builds wax wings for kid to get out, tells him NOT to fly close to the sun. Kid flys close to the sun. Moral of the story. Obey your parents.

Example of irony is

A winged character in a cage

Intentionalist writers

Mean what they write. Everything is in there for a reason

Illness and accidents happen for a purpose

True

Violence is ALWAYS symbolic

False

A symbol can be reduced to be representing one thing

False

Only objects and things are symbolic

False

Nearly all writing is political on some level

True

Most works engage the politics of their time

True

All Christ figures are male

True

No literary Christ figure can ever be as pure, perfect or divine as Jesus

True

Authors mean what they write

True

Who is responsible for showing readers sexual intentions in writing

Freod

Why is sex symbolized in books

Before the 1960's it was considered inappropriate and crude to talk about

2 themes sex can symbolize

Fulfillment

Power

What one theme modern female writers exploring when they write about sex

Personal vulnerability, freedom

Reasons characters are tossed in the water

Transformation

Handy solution to messy plots

Develop them into something more

Pattern of baptism

Death of rebirth

4 purposes of drowning in a literary work

1. Character revelation

2. Guilt, thematic development

3. Plot complication

4. Resolution

2 lows of geography

Darkness and caves

2 highs of geography

Mountain and snow

What do the seasons represent

Spring: youth

Fall: middle age

Summer: adulthood

Winter: resentment

What season is associated with the cruxifixction and resurrection?

Spring

Sex does not have to look like it

True

Other objects and activities can represent sex besides the act itself

True

The Hollywood code says bodies can't be horizontally together

False

Fertility myths and mystic thinking are connected to the knight archetype

True

Sex was very prominent in Victorian literature

False

Characters do not change after experiencing a near drowning

False

When a character gets wet 2 times it has a religious or ritual association

False

Not every drowning has a purpose

False

Readers remember stories that have great geography

True

Geography can never be a character

False

Readers learn about seasons in titles and characters' names

True

History explains the seasons

False

Ones proximity or distance from God is manifested in external signs

True

In literature, physical deformity is unrelated to character or moral deformity

False

Harries have deformities

True

Character markings indicate the damage life inflicts

True

Character injuries symbolize the destruction of possibilities, metal damage, spiritual despair and the death of hope

True

When literal blindness, sight, darkness, and light are introduced in a story, it always means figurative seeing is at work

False

When blindness is important in a text the author introduces it all the time

Authors disregard characters humanity

Every age or time period has its own special disease

True

Who is the real monster in Frankenstein

The Doctor

When an author wants you to know something it will be introduced in the

Beginning

Best metaphorical illness

Heart attack

What does "a heart of iron" mean

Strong will

What are the 4 principles of writing about disease in literature?

1. Picturesque

2. Mysterious

3. Symbolize

What disease was used by Romantics

Consumption

What is Harry Potter deformity

Scar on his eye

The readers perspective does not matter

False

You know more than you think you know

True

Every work teaches us how to read it as we go along

True

Irony trumps everything

True