Unit Four: Poetry Quiz

Consider how your selected works are written. Using specific examples, examine the use of dialogue OR suggestive language (such as allusions, metaphors, symbols, etc.). How do these literary devices contribute to the deeper meaning or understanding of the texts?

Reflect on the themes explored in the readings you selected. List the themes of each of your readings. How does the theme resonate with the reader or reflect societal issues?

Which poems did you select from the readings? Please list them and explain why you choose them.

Please match the three most famous playwrights of Ancient Greek tragedies.

“Hamartia” is often interpreted as a character’s “tragic flaw” that brings about their downfall.

According to Shakespeare and scholars, what was every hero’s real hamartia?

True or False: A “Subjective View” is seeing external reality as it really is, or “seeing as we are seen,” as shown in a “god’s eye view.”

In contrast, an “Objective View” is the way people interpret reality for themselves, such as their emotional response to events in their lives; it may be represented by a video game character’s first-person perspective.

Which describes the “Four Modes” of stories?

True or False: In Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the ideal response to a “call to adventure” is for the protagonist to refuse the call to show their responsibility, and to heroically remain focused on the tasks at hand.

Which of the following is NOT an element of Syd Field’s Three-Act Structure?

Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title, Save the Cat, in Blake Snyder’s book?

Six of the following are elements of bestselling books, as described by James Hall’s “Hit Lit;” please select all six. (Four are incorrect.)

Who wrote the first book on interpreting dramas and literature?