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CMLIT010
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2012
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Term
myth
 Definition
word and silence
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grapheme
 Definition
recorded myth
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logos
 Definition
word that is more divine
Term
chaos
 Definition
primal, violence
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cosmos
 Definition
structured, order
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eros
 Definition
desire-- leads chaos to cosmos
Term
thanatos
 Definition
death
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world
 Definition
men in time
Term
literature
 Definition
what is made in, with, and of letters
Term
theogony
 Definition
tale of the birth of the gods
Term
ka
 Definition
spirit
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mnemonic
 Definition
re-membering
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civis
 Definition
city
Term
polis
 Definition
city
Term
xenia
 Definition
the way one deals with strangers
Term
polysyndenton
 Definition
repetition of a specific word
Term
incipit
 Definition
beginning
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genesis
 Definition
here it begins
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devolution
 Definition
something to come down from, falling from
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hubris
 Definition
pride which can get you into trouble
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letters
 Definition
writing, alphabet
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lugalbanda
 Definition
a holy man
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medicine
 Definition
wisdom of the body
Term
government
 Definition
social form
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pedagogy
 Definition
the seven sages
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hierosgamos
 Definition
sacred or divine marriage
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apotropeia
 Definition
placate ancestors
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synechdoche
 Definition
part that represents the whole
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anomie
 Definition
lawless
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cyclops
 Definition
a round eye
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outis
 Definition
nobody
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nekyia
 Definition
right for calling up ghosts to disclose the future
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Ogygia
 Definition
island of Calypso
Term
Aeaea
 Definition
island of enchantment
Term
hypnagogic
 Definition
during sleep
Term
antinous
 Definition
against the mind (madman)
Term
amphinomus
 Definition
two minds
Term
tyrannus
 Definition
someone who succeeded to the kingship
Term
paideia
 Definition
children and their lessons
Term
hamartia
 Definition
error in ignorance
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peripeteia
 Definition
turning point
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anagnorisis
 Definition
recognition
Term
catastrophe
 Definition
change of fortune for the worse
Term
catharsis
 Definition
cleansing, purging
Term
ekphrasis
 Definition
bringing on medium into another
Term
nemesis
 Definition
enemy who brings about your downfall
Term
narcissism
 Definition
self-transformation of unknown self into object of desire
Term
autolepsis
 Definition
futile spectral gestures
Term
metempsychosis
 Definition
transmigration of the soul
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heterogeneities
 Definition
morphing nature's laws
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jinshi
 Definition
presented scholar
Term
synesthesia
 Definition
use if senses normally attributed to other senses
Term
chromatics
 Definition
color, eyes
Term
harmonics
 Definition
blend of notes and sound
Term
counterpoint
 Definition
call and response
Term
transition
 Definition
segway from one to the next-- marked by shadow
Term
passage
 Definition
getting from here to there
Term
zither
 Definition
string instrument played with hammers
Term
composing
 Definition
filling silence with music
Term
apostrophe
 Definition
talking to the audience
Term
palistrophe
 Definition
return to the beginning of the story
Term
concatination
 Definition
with chains-- chain-linked stories
Term
intertextuality
 Definition
texts refer to one another
Term
self-absolution
 Definition
cannot be killed for what you say
Term
histoire-on-dit
 Definition
they-say story
Term
misogynist
 Definition
one who has no respect for women
Term
prosopopeia
 Definition
person who personifies a specific trait
Term
epichureans
 Definition
do not believe in immortality of the soul
Term
in videa
 Definition
way of not seeing
Term
contrapasso
 Definition
suffer the opposite
Term
plutocracy
 Definition
ruled by money
Term
parabasis
 Definition
involving the audience-- actor would remove mask and address the audience
Term
Judecca
 Definition
land of Judas
Term
war
 Definition
killing for profit
Term
false prophecy
 Definition
worst thing
Term
auto-cannibalism
 Definition
self-consumption
Term
barbarian
 Definition
people who speak a different language
Term
terrorist
 Definition
the "other guys"
Term
reason
 Definition
lets delusion occur, and is aware of it
Term
amatory
 Definition
love-related poetry
Term
palinode
 Definition
retraction
Term
enlightenment
 Definition
reason
Term
optimism
 Definition
rationalization
Term
science
 Definition
judgement
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etiology
 Definition
cause and effect
Term
rule
 Definition
normal
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anomie
 Definition
always new normal
Term
change
 Definition
necessity
Term
inevitability
 Definition
contingency
Term
pilgrimage
 Definition
errancy
Term
destiny
 Definition
accidental destination
Term
theodicy
 Definition
best of all possible worlds
Term
universal law
 Definition
exceptional particulars
Term
poien
 Definition
to make, create (poem)
Term
poietas
 Definition
maker, creator (poet)
Term
self
 Definition
mind, body, history
Term
sense
 Definition
five senses and the sixth
Term
sentiment
 Definition
feeling, emotion
Term
sensibility
 Definition
management of sense and sentiment
Term
signification
 Definition
organizing sense, self, sentiment, and sensibility into meaningful expression
Term
iambic
 Definition
from the heart-- unstressed/stressed
Term
troche
 Definition
stressed/unstressed
Term
dactyllic
 Definition
long-short-short
Term
ghazal
 Definition
courtly poetry-- originally sung
Term
caesura
 Definition
break in a line
Term
soliloquy
 Definition
talking to oneself
Term
proemion
 Definition
prelude that tells what the text is
Term
epimenede's paradox
 Definition
Cretan saying he's a liar, sane man saying he's sane
Term
chiaroscuro
 Definition
clear darkness
Term
nocturno lunatico
 Definition
by the light of the moon
Term
paranoid
 Definition
mind beside itself
Term
schizophrenic
 Definition
knows itself to be paranoid
Term
reflection
 Definition
mirror image, contemplation
Term
focalizer
 Definition
narrator tells story through this
Term
flora volvulata
 Definition
invaginate
Term
convolvere
 Definition
intertwine, wrapped in
Term
nature morte
 Definition
naked truth
Term
ecce femina
 Definition
vivisection
Term
autopsy
 Definition
I see
Term
corpus delicti
 Definition
body of evidence
Term
ternary
 Definition
in threes
Term
persona
 Definition
to sound through
Term
per
 Definition
through
Term
sonare
 Definition
to sound
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anthem
 Definition
song to a flower
Term
unspoken
 Definition
enables (doesn't need saying)
Term
unspeakable
 Definition
don't say for a reason
Term
visceral
 Definition
guts
Term
basil
 Definition
plant of hope and self-rule
Term
nations
 Definition
colonial construct, artificial
Term
comprador
 Definition
buyer
Term
vendido
 Definition
sell-out
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