Third Paper and Final Paper

Final Exam (not same as 3rd Paper, p. 11, Syllabus, for guidelines)

With the definitions cited below in mind, in an essay of at least 400 words (around 200 words for each) discuss the ATMOSPHERE in two readings from the list below. Please also quote from each reading a passage of about 50 words in support of your argument, as well as using and underlining 5 literary terms from the list below (a total of 5, not 5 for each reading)

“Atmosphere: The prevailing tone or mood of a literary work, particularly—but not exclusively—when that mood is established in part by setting or landscape. It is, however, not simply setting but rather the emotional aura which the work bears and which establishes the reader’s expectations and attitudes.”

-- Hibbard, Addison & William Flint Thrall, A Handbook to Literature. Rev. and enlarged by C. Hugh Holman. New York: Odyssey Press, 1960.

“Atmosphere is the mood pervading a literary work, setting up in the reader expectations as to the course of events, whether happy or (more commonly) disastrous.”

--Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 1st edition. New York: Holt Rhinehart, 1957.

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Readings List (choose two)

18th Century (Enlightenment) Novel, Voltaire, Candide, pp. 257-319.

Week 9: 19th Century Russian Fiction, Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, pp. 660-737

19th Century German Epic (Theatre), Goethe, Faust “Prologue in Heaven”, and Part I, pp. 353-403

Week 10: Goethe, Faust, Part I, pp. 403-468.

20th Century Anglophone Fiction, Conrad, Heart of Darkness, pp. 898-959.

Week 11: Naturalism in Literature, European Naturalist Theatre; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, pp. 807-867. Second Paper (Research Critique) Due, 11/14**

19th Century French Poetry: Baudelaire, pp. 555-569.

Week 12: T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”, and The Waste Land, pp. 1147-1167.

Week 13: Women in Literature, 17th to 20th Century, Behn pp. 192-242; Woolf, 1082-1117

Dickinson, pp. 570-75; Akhmatova, pp. 1168-1177.

Week 14: Modernism and Literature, James Joyce, The Dead, pp. 963-992 .

12/10**: Last Class. Review for Final Exam; Kafka, The Metamorphosis, pp. 992-1027. Third Paper Due*

Literary Terms: Use and Underline a total of 5 (list continues next page)

I. Figurative Language and Basic Literary Terms 1. Allegory 2. Allusion 3. Ambiguity 4. Atmosphere 5. Deus ex machina 6. Epic 7. Epiphany 8. Genre 9. Imagery 10. Irony 11. kleos, kudos (Greek: glory, honor, fame) 12. Metaphor 13. Metis (Greek: cunning, deceit, disguise) 14. Paradox 15. Pathos 16. Satire 17. Personification 18. Simile 19. Symbol 20. Synecdoche 21. Utopia/Dystopia

II. Elements of Fiction 1. Character(ization) 2. Conflict 3. Narrative point of view (first person, second person, third person, third person omniscient, or unreliable narrator) 4. Novel 5. Plot/subplot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement) 6. Protagonist/Antagonist 7. Setting 8. Short Story 9. Theme III. Historical Periods and Literary Movements 1. Classical 2. Enlightenment 3. Medieval 4. Modernism 5. Naturalism 6. Realism 7. Renaissance 8. Romanticism

III. Elements of Poetry 1. Meter ( heroic couplet; blank verse & iambic pentameter) 2. Pastoral 3. Rhyme Scheme 4. Sonnet (Petrarchan and Shakespearian) IV. Elements of Drama and Epic 1. Chorus 2. Comedy 3. Hybris (Greek: Pride) 4. Invocation 5. Recognition/Anagnorisis 6. Reversal/Peripeteia 7. Soliloquy 8. Tragedy V. Element of Context 1. Philosophy (ethics, aesthetics) 2. Ideology 3. Society and Politics