Week18

Final 

Week17

• 寫作技巧
  One paragraph, one central idea !

• Hypothesis 
       A  proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
• A Midnight's Dream
        A comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

• Catch me if you can
        A 2002 American biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check fraud; he became so experienced that the FBI eventually turned to him to help in catching other check forgers. 

• Death o f a Salesman
       Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life. The play concludes with Willy's suicide and subsequent funeral.

                                                          Theme -- American Dream

• American Dream
        A national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

Week16

• 看title就知道故事地點在哪裡                           Place
  The Merchant of Venice                                   (Italy)
  A Midnight's Dream of Dream                       (Greece)
• Four Great Tragedy :
  
  • Hamlet   - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
       A tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude.
  
  
  • Othello
       A tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in the year approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. This tightly constructed work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish b0ss in the Venetian army; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted but unfaithful ensign, Iago.
  
  
  • King Lear
        A tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.
  
  
  
  • Macbeth
        A tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
    
   

•  Caesar, Caesarian

Caesar
  A Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose.

Caesarian

• Sound and Sense  by Alexander Pope
• Auld Lang Syne
  A Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song.
• A Red, Red Rose
  

  O my Luve's like a red, red rose
  That’s newly sprung in June;
  O my Luve's like the melodie
  That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
  
  As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
  So deep in luve am I:
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  Till a’ the seas gang dry:
  
  Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
  And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
  I will luve thee still, my dear,
  While the sands o’ life shall run.
  
  And fare thee weel, my only Luve
  And fare thee weel, a while!
  And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

  fare thee weel - Bye Bye !
• Cupid and psyche butterfly

• You're a character! 你是號人物!! ( 稱讚意味
• L'amant - The lover
• Don't get into mischief! 不要搗蛋喔!

• Amendment
  Clever/cunning/smart

Week15

• Response Paper
  *前後呼應
  3 supporting paragraph
• Classical Unities
  1. unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
  2. unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
  3. unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
• Thrust Stage
  In theatre, a thrust stage (also known as a platform stage or open stage) is one that extends into the audience on three sides and is connected to the backstage area by its upstage end.

• proscenium stage
  A proscenium  is the area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening. A proscenium arch is the arch over this area.

• Amphitheatre
  An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. 

• Dionysus (Also known as Bacchus)

Week14

• 18th week - hand in the final paper
• VoiceTube - Think in English !
• Literature(English) emphasis on the text
  Literature(Chinese) emphasis in the source
• Index finger 

• (Respond paper) fist paragraph - Refresh your memory
   narrative - tell a story
• Elegy
  (1) since the Renaissance, usually a formal *lament on the death of a particular person, but focusing mainly on the speaker’s efforts to come to terms with his or her grief; (2) more broadly, any lyric in sorrowful mood that takes death as its primary subject. An example is W. H. Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."
  *lament*..... on the death of a particular person
  feel sorry
• Gothic
  Gothic is a subgenre of fiction conventionally featuring plots that involve secrets, mystery, and the supernatural (or the seemingly supernatural) and large, gloomy, and usually antiquated (especially medieval) houses as settings. E.g.  A Rose for Emily.

•  Danaë (a.k.a.Danaë and the Shower of Gold)
   According to Greek mythology known by Titian through Ovid's telling, when Acrisius consulted the oracle on how he would get male children, he was told that his daughter would bear a son who would kill him. Acrisius then locked up and guarded his daughter Danaë in a subterranean dungeon. Danaë, aware of the consequences, allowed herself to be seduced and impregnated by Zeus, who persuaded her to lower her defences by appearing in the form of a shower of gold.

• Meta - 
  a prefix means change, alteration, or alternation: metabolism, metamorphosis.

  Metamorphoses

  
  
•  Io and Prometheus

• literature history

          (reason) 1.Classical period  3.the Renaissance 5.Romantic 7.Modernism 
          (faith)    2.the Medical 4.neoclassical 6.Victorian 8.Postmodernism

• Drop > Drip
• Lapping ( sound )
• Choir , orchestra (CH - about sound
• Doubting Tomas
  Doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross.

• Be gay→Be happy

Week13

• Mock-
• Bibliography
• Nature versus nurture
• Speaker - persona
  In the word's everyday usage,a persona is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask.

• Theme subject, matter     Subject-matter refers to the literal topic of the piece in question. The theme is the underlying or overriding idea of the piece, which can be concretely one thing and also interpreted by the reader or viewer to mean/be whatever they so choose.
• Motif(s) thematic     In narrative, a motif  is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as theme or mood. A narrative motif can be created through the use of imagery, structural components, language, and other narrative elements.
• Memento mori     emento mori (Latin: "remember (that you have) to die") is the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.
  
• morality/mortality
• The immortals
  I'm only flesh and blood. I'm mortal.
• It's my pleasure to learn that
  learn - get informed
• Radish Radishes (Raphanus sativus) are annual or biennial brassicaceous crops grown for their swollen tap-roots which can be globular, tapering or cylindrical.

菜頭

• Four weddings and a Funeral -''Funeral Blues"

 

• O tell me the truth about love

• Leda and the Swan
  A story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda.
  

Week12

• Furnish
  Is it furnished ? 租房子可以問 有附家具嗎?
• 五段論證法
  Introduction ( thesis statement ) + 3 supporting paragraphs ( topic sentences ) + conclusion
• Human being
• Poetry
  1. Narrative poetry
  Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. Narrative poems do not have to follow rhythmic patterns. 
  2. Lyric poetry
  Lyric poetry is a form of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, the lyric, which was defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a stringed instrument known as a lyre.
• Stanza
  In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
• Liquid paper      it is used to correct typewriting in the past, correction products now mostly cover handwriting mistakes.
  

• Hyperbole
  A hyperbole is a dramatic over-exaggeration, used often in humorous poetry. Done well, a hyperbole can also be a source of deft criticism, mockery, or intrigue.e.g.   To His Cory Mistress
  "To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell.
  
  
• Aristotle - Poetry is more philosophical than history
• Carpe diem
  Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Ovid to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". It's usually translated to "seize the day"
• Dover Beach
  "Dover Beach" is a short lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold.
  

Week11

• Didacticism
  A philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and   other types of art.The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word related to education and teaching, and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.

• Oscar Wilde
        An Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
• Love at first sight    

“Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.”
                                                      ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  

• Come out of the closet(coming out)
  A figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, and asexual (LGBT+) people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation (or lack thereof) and/or gender identity.

• Romance
• I owe you an apology(noun)
  apologize(verb)
• End rhyme
• Rhyme scheme
  A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.
• iamb pentameter
       A commonly used type of metrical line in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line, which is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". The word "iambic" refers to the type of foot that is used, known as the iamb, which in English is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet". 
                               e.g.

• Greek prefixes used in naming polygons and polyhedral ：

　　Penta - (5) Pentameter
　　Hexa- (6)  hexameter

Pentagon

• The Age of Adaline

 

• Somewhere I have never travelled

• Glee - Happy
• She blossomed for him
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
  
  The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme: ABABCC. Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter.

Week10

• Midterm review
• Prefix:
  op- op is a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, most often attached to verbs and verbal derivatives, with the meanings “at or to one side of, beside, side by side” ( parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis)
  para-para is a prefix means blocking, against, concealing. e.g.oppose
• parallel parking (完全平行的那種路邊停車) , pull over 靠邊停車

Parallel parking

• Pun
  A form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
• Go to the reverse side
• Rationale
  The fundamental reasons for something.