Technical Subjects
Multiple Choice: There are different types of questions, including rhetorical function, tone, antecedent, style, and context. We learned to approach each of these types different and rule out the absurd ones first.
Comedy: We learned many different types of comedy, including low comedy, high comedy, burlesque, farce, lampoon, parody, satire, slapstick, and travesty. We also learned about the “Comedy of Manner” which consists of love affairs in the upper class.
Tragedy: In Aristotle’s idea of a tragedy, the tragic hero is a man of significant stature who falls from a high place as a result of a certain tragic flaw. He recognizes this flaw (called an epiphany) but it is too late. Arthur Miller had a different idea of tragedy, in which he believed that a common man refuses to give up his place in society even though moving forward is hopeless.
Critical Lenses: The different lenses consist of Formalists/New Critics (literature is only exactly what is written on the page), Post-Colonial (relationship with the colonizers and the colonized. This includes terms such as exoticism, alienation, hybridity, and appropriation), Psychoanalytics (focus on Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and the superego), New Historicism (a reader should look at literature in the context of where it falls historically), Feminism (focus on the roles of women), Marxist (power of the masses and economic power), Literary Darwinism, Reader Response (how the reader feels about the text), Mythological (symbols), Structuralism (the structures existing in a culture) and Post-Structuralists (like the Reader Response lense).
Hey,
ReplyDeleteAlthough i really like your analysis of each of the topics, i'm not sure how "Comedy and tragedy" fall under the technical subjects of AP Lit. When i think technical, I think more of multiple choice, or even looking at text through different critical lenses. I felt like Comedy and Tragedy would have fit somewhere else, maybe like the types of literature we learned about?
I liked that you covered every type of critical lens that we covered in class though!
Great job otherwise!
Erin
It's interesting, I don't actually remember learning all the critical lenses. But I like how you included the different types of tragedies in your summaries. But it would be cool to know what distinguishes each type of comedy. And what do you do after you rule out the absurd question?
ReplyDeleteTips for multiple choice questions?
ReplyDeleteAnd it's Comedy of MannerS =)
And the tragic flaw is "hamartia."