HUMA 2640 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hermia, Alliteration, Animism
29 Apr 2016
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Christ- gure: alice: entire story is about her growing up but it is never stated outright; symbols are the cakes and drinks she consumes to make her change size. Metaphor: they don"t say outright whether life is good or bad, they will say life plus another thing to explain something else: ovid, alice: life is but a dream, candide: garden metaphor. Symbol: can mean multiple things; excludes some things (ex. Metonymy: figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with something else that the thing is closely associated with. (ex. The pen is mightier than the sword; pen=written words, sword=military force) Thursday, december 3, 2015: ovid, midsummer night"s dream: shakespeare uses palindromes etc. , hearts that spanieled" =women who dogged him, casablanca: we"ll always have paris; we lost it but we got it back. Paradox: statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true (or wrong at the same time) (ex.
