Week5

• Yalta
       Yalta is a resort city on the north coast of the Black Sea in the Crimean peninsula.
  
• Spatial setting
       The time and place of the action in a work of fiction, poetry, or drama. The spatialsetting is the place or places in which action unfolds, the temporal setting is the time. (Temporal setting is thus the same as plot time.) It is sometimes also helpful to distinguish between general setting—the general time and place in which all the action unfolds—and particular settings—the times and places in which individual episodes or scenes take place. The film version of Gone with the Wind, for example, is generally set in Civil War– era Georgia, while its opening scene takes place on the porch of Tara, Scarlett O’Hara’s family home, before the war begins.
  
• prefix -Tem - time
   Temporal, contemporary
  
• Charles Dickens
      Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
  
  ''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.''Quotation from Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

• Western canon
  
  

Week4

• Grendel
        Grendel is a novel by John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist,Grendel. 

       Young adult fiction
       小憤青的故事

• Lord of the Files     A1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cather in the Rye
  
  
• Beowulf 貝奧武夫
        An Old English epic poem.It is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English Literature. It was written in England some time between the 8th and the early 11th century. It is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem also begins in medias res.
•  Prefix : Dia- means '' through '' , '' passing through ''...
•  The blind side - Baltimore Ravens
  

• Scooter

• Motorcycle

famous sites / spots

• Trevi fountain

• Pantheon

• plot (v)羅織罪名
• prefix - Mor -meaning DEATH
  morgue, mortify....

Week3

• Epic
    Homer   /    Virgil
     (oral)
• Prefix '' ver- / vir- '' carries the meaning of truth
       Verification ( ex: Ramon Fever)
       Verisimilitude
       Virtual reality
  - I'm virtually impaired! 我真的累壞了!

Seal of Harvard - Veritas

•  I saw you crying in the chapel

• Altitude - height
      suffix'' - tude '' carries the meaning of state, quality, condition of
   - You got altitude problem / attitude problem
• SAT   The SAT is globally recognized college admission test that let you show colleges what you know and how well you can apply that knowledge. It tests your knowledge of reading, writing and math — subjects that are taught every day in high school classrooms.
      S A(aptitude) T
• Chapel / Church / Cathedral
      Chapels are commonly smaller spaces, usually a room within the church or a larger, non-faith-based institution like an airport, hospital, or university, and they are not necessarily consecrated ground.
       church services now often take place in secular locations, and former church buildings are frequently converted into private homes, bookstores, and bars.
       cathedral is the principal church of a bishop's diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
• Irony - Verbal irony/ Situational irony / Dramatic irony/ Cosmic irony
  
        Verbal irony is a statement in which the meaning that a speaker employs is sharply different from the meaning that is ostensibly expressed. The ironic statement usually involves the explicit expression of one attitude or evaluation, but with indications in the overall speech-situation that the speaker intends a very different, and often opposite, attitude or evaluation.
       Dramatic irony is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters.
       Situational irony describes a sharp discrepancy between the expected result and actual results in a certain situation.

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• The Gift of  the Magi

 A short story, written by O. Henry, about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. 

Week2

• Emphasis on Text 文本
• Plot
  Plot is a narrative (traditionally, literary) term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence; as they relate to each other through cause and effect; how the reader views the story; or simply by coincidence.
  
• ProtagonistThe protagonist (from Ancient Greek ,meaning "player of the first part, chief actor") or main character is a narrative's central or primary personal figure, who comes into conflict with an opposing major character or force (called the antagonist).
• Allegory
  As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.
• AntiheroAn antihero or antiheroine is a main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality.
• NovellaA novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. A novella generally features fewer conflicts than a novel, yet more complicated ones than a short story. 
• Paper or plastic?
  Cash or change?