This morning I'd like to start posting the study guide. We are covering *only* what we cover in class. The format that we follow will be the format of the sample midterm from 2014. The questions will be different as we have covered different topics in class.
Drama:
A Doll's House (plus film version starring Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom, version starring Jane Fonda, and stage version starring Hattie Morahan)
Fences (plus trailers of versions starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis as well as version starring James Earl Jones)
terms: drama vs. theater; central idea; stage directions; dialogue; narrative arc; well-made play; plot vs. character; Century cycle; trickster; orality
Fiction:
"Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead" -- Wishram
"The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich (plus video with her and her husband)
"Love in LA" by Dagoberto Gilb (flash fiction--under 1,000 words)
"Today's Demon: Magic" by Lynda Barry (graphic fiction)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" by Sherman Alexie (plus film clip)
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie (plus clips from interview)
terms: plot (narrative arc; flashback; foreshadowing; epiphany; exposition)
character (round/flat; major/minor; stock character; protagonist; antagonist; motivation)
setting
narration/point of view (1st person: reliable, unreliable, or naive; 3rd person: omniscient, objective, or limited)
theme
folktale
orality (in medias res; flat characters; performative; episodic)
trickster
No comments:
Post a Comment