Ap Lit Semster
1Oedipus Rex - Poetics and Oedipus - Q8
Question 8: Aristotle believed that a good play created a catharsis for the audience. Would this play accomplish that in ancient Greece? Write a paragraph in which you summarize what Aristotle must have thought about Oedipus the King, a play he did see and about which he did write. Be sure to explain catharsis.
Answer: A catharsis is a purging of the emotions, allowing the audience to have the emotional experience of the tragedy without having to go through the experience itself. In every way that Aristotle analyzed play design, this play was at the ideal level. The play must have had that effect on the audience when Aristotle saw it for him to think so much of it.
Feedback: See "Aristotle's Poetics" and Cosmic Trial Discussion.
Semester 1 Midterm - Q 11
Question 11: In the space provided, explain how Wilfred Owen communicates his tone in "Dulce at Decorum Est." This is your chance to demonstrate that you can use effectively the literary terms you learned in the course so far. You have the opportunity in this poem to use, by far, most of the terms you studied.
If you wish, you can type your response in a word processing program and then copy/paste the answer into the space provided.
Answer: Within "Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen communicates the tone of horror towards the brutality of war. Through literary techniques, he depicts death in war. For example, alliteration expresses this horror. Owen writes, "And watch the white eyes writhing in his face," which creates a stark and confronting image within the reader's mind. Furthermore, Owen's use of simile through "his hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin" arouses the sympathy of the reader with this depiction of the grotesque nature of death. Feedback: This is tricky to find. Go to Reading and Rhetoric, Dover Beach Activity. Inside the Dover Beach Activity, go to the first link. Once there, the reading links are located at the top of
Question 8: Aristotle believed that a good play created a catharsis for the audience. Would this play accomplish that in ancient Greece? Write a paragraph in which you summarize what Aristotle must have thought about Oedipus the King, a play he did see and about which he did write. Be sure to explain catharsis.
Answer: A catharsis is a purging of the emotions, allowing the audience to have the emotional experience of the tragedy without having to go through the experience itself. In every way that Aristotle analyzed play design, this play was at the ideal level. The play must have had that effect on the audience when Aristotle saw it for him to think so much of it.
Feedback: See "Aristotle's Poetics" and Cosmic Trial Discussion.
Semester 1 Midterm - Q 11
Question 11: In the space provided, explain how Wilfred Owen communicates his tone in "Dulce at Decorum Est." This is your chance to demonstrate that you can use effectively the literary terms you learned in the course so far. You have the opportunity in this poem to use, by far, most of the terms you studied.
If you wish, you can type your response in a word processing program and then copy/paste the answer into the space provided.
Answer: Within "Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen communicates the tone of horror towards the brutality of war. Through literary techniques, he depicts death in war. For example, alliteration expresses this horror. Owen writes, "And watch the white eyes writhing in his face," which creates a stark and confronting image within the reader's mind. Furthermore, Owen's use of simile through "his hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin" arouses the sympathy of the reader with this depiction of the grotesque nature of death. Feedback: This is tricky to find. Go to Reading and Rhetoric, Dover Beach Activity. Inside the Dover Beach Activity, go to the first link. Once there, the reading links are located at the top of