How to Read Literature Like a Professor Ch 8-12

Which of the following are the works of Homer that are still referenced today?

• Metamorphoses and The Aenea

• The Odyssey and The Iliad

• Oedipus Rex and Antigone

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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According to Foster, what is the definition of myth?

• A series of cultural texts that have been passed down

• Modern day fairy tales copying old ones

• Only Greek and Roman mythology

• A body of story that matters

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What is the value of including allusions to other writers or texts?

• It provides depth and timeless reasonance

• It helps the reader understand the meaning

• They provide common threads between texts

• To create context with struggles between characters

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Weather is never just ______.

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What can rain symbolize in literature?

• Cleansing characters of illusions.

• Signaling confusion in characters.

• A way of developing atmosphere.

• Nothing. A dark and stormy night is just a dark and stormy night.

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What are a few things rain can do?

Snow can mean lots of different things like. Snow is...

• clean

• stark

• severe

• warm

• dirty

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Violence in literature, while it is literal, it's usually also something else.

• True

• False

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What are the two types of violence found in literature and how are they different?

What is allegory?

• Things that stand for abstract ideas without limit.

• Things stand for other things on a one-to-one basis

• A reference to historical or popular culture.

• Convey multiple possibilities of meaning.

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