Week9

Midterm

Week8

•  A Midnight's Dream

 

• Lunatic
  
       A lunatic is someone who is either clinically insane or just acting really crazy. Someone driving too fast and zigging in and out of traffic is driving like a lunatic.

       The root of this word is luna, which means moon. That's because lunatic originally meant someone who went crazy with every phase of the moon, kind of like a werewolf. Most people these days don't believe in moon-caused insanity, but we still talk about lunatics, sometimes meaning clinically insane people. More often this is a slang term, used mainly in exaggerations, for anyone who seems wild and out of control.
• Spoke with resignation ( 別再講了! 的語氣 )
• Roman Fever - Fever here has two meaning( malaria and pursue crazily)
• William Faulkner's speech at Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950.

 

 

Week7

• help(n.) ≒ servant(n.)
• - Movie ：The help

•  The Great Gatsby quotation -
       Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

• Spring break
        A vacational period in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the world.    It is also known by names such as Easter vacation, Easter Holiday, March break, spring vacation, Mid-Term Break, study week, reading week, reading period, or Easter week, depending on regional conventions.
• Easter
       It is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.
  - passover is  an important, biblically derived Jewish festival.
      Jewish people don't celebrate Easter, they celebrate Passover.
• Equinox  

        The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about

   March 21 and September 22. An equinox occurs twice a year.
  
  

•  Point of view POV
        The perspective from which people, events, and other details in a work of fiction are viewed; also called focus, though the term point of view is sometimes used to include both focus and voice. The point of view is said to be limited when we see things only from one character’s perspective; it is said to be omniscient or unlimitedwhen we get the perspective of multiple characters.
• Song - Danny Boy

• Apron

Week6

• Mimesis   
       Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.
  
• Ode on a Grecian Urn  
       ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts.
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  'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'	50

   
• Bartleby.com   Bartleby.com is an electronic text archive, headquartered in New York and named after Herman Melville's story "Bartleby, the Scrivener". - ''Ah, bartleby! Ah, humanity!''
• Didacticism
        Didacticism is 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 διδακτικός (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner. Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overly burdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader.
  
• Project Gutenberg  -   Free ebooks
       Project Gutenberg  is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. 
• Easter
  
       Easter is an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar. 
   
  restrospect
  exquisitely / dynamic
  expemplary
  asperity - harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony