Study Guide for Final, overview

Today I'd like to start the study guides for the final.  We'll be adding to it in class next week (week of 4/9).

The format of the test will be as follows:

17 fill-in-the-blanks covering the works; authors, actors, & characters; and literary terms
7 multiple choice covering the works, genre, literary terms, and context
several short answer questions covering the works, genre, literary terms, and context
10 pts. extra credit drawing on your memory for detail and your opinion.  (There may be a question in extra credit about the readings we did not discuss in class.)

genres and subgenres
fiction
short story -- under 7,500 words (although some allow for under 10,000 words)
flash fiction -- under 1,000 words
graphic fiction -- the story is told through images and texts

poetry
sonnet -- 14 lines, iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line), rhyme scheme, Shakespearean (English) and Petrarchan (Italian) -- some translations are free verse (A.S. Kline) -- usually about love -- Shakespeare, Petrarch, Gwendolyn Brooks, A.M. Juster, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Grace Cavalieri ("Anna Nicole's Dream")

villanelle -- song (French origin) -- refrain -- first line ends second and fourth stanzas -- third line ends first, third, fifth, and sixth stanzas -- all but the last stanza has three lines -- last stanza has four lines -- the refrain lines rhyme -- became popular in the mid-1900s -- Bishop & Thomas

dramatic monologue -- -- someone else's voice -- "My Last Duchess" & "Crusoe in England"

poems about famous people in strange situations -- "A Supermarket in California," "M. Degas," "A Dream of Robert Hayden," and "Defending Walt Whitman" as well as "Anna Nicole's Dream"

prose poetry-- like a story but also poem -- "Hammer and Nail," "The Canoeing," "Girl," [of a girl, in line], and "Dim Lady" -- no line breaks -- may have rhyme and other poetic devices

free verse -- doesn't rhyme, doesn't have regular meter -- line breaks --"Those Winter Sundays," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," and "M. Degas" as well as "Crusoe in England" -- often has enjambment

concrete/visual poetry -- poetry in the shape of its subject -- "Forsythia," "Lilac," "Swan and Shadow," and "Easter Wings" -- note that "Easter Wings" is from the 1600s.

haiku -- from the Japanese -- concise poetry written in present tense -- generally three lines (five syllables -- seven syllables -- five syllables) with a break in the middle -- about nature -- however, the format of haiku may vary

fiction terms (including definitions)
plot -- also foreshadowing and flashback, epiphany
character -- round or flat, antagonist, protagonist
narration -- 1st person (reliable or unreliable), 3rd person (limited omniscience, omniscient)
setting
theme

poetry terms (including definitions) --
stanza -- unit of poetry, like a paragraph
line breaks -- end with punctuation (end-stopped); end in the middle of a phrase (enjambment)
theme
speaker -- poet is not necessarily the speaker
rhyme
off rhyme or slant rhyme
alliteration -- from Merriam-Webster:  the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) — called also head rhyme, initial rhyme.  (Note that in literature alliteration can go on for several words.)
assonance -- repetition of vowel sounds

individual works
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"The Cigarette"
"Girl"
"The Magic Rabbit"
"A Geronimo Moon"

"Hammer and Nail"
"The Canoeing"
"[of a girl, in white]"
"Dim Lady"

Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 (sung by Rufus Wainwright)
"Whoso List to Hunt"
Petrarch's Sonnet 3 (trans. A.S. Kline)
Petrarch's Sonnet 294 (trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson; trans. A.S. Kline)
Petrarch's Sonnet 312 (trans. A.M. Juster; trans. A.S. Kline)
"the rites for Cousin Vit"

"My Last Duchess"
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
"One Art"
"Those Winter Sundays"

"Crusoe in England"
"M. Degas Teaches Art and Science, Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942"

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"Defending Walt Whitman"
"A Supermarket in California"

"My Life had stood--a loaded Gun"
"Because I could not stop for Death"
"Nature the kindest mother"

"On Meeting Robert Hayden in a Dream"

"I, Too, Sing America"
"I Hear America Singing"
"The Negro Sings of Rivers"
"Madam and Her Madam"

"Oread"
"Forsythia"
"Lilac"
"In a Station of the Metro"
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"In Kyoto"
"Easter Wings"
"Swan and Shadow"
"Anna Nicole's Dream"
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