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The document discusses key concepts in world literature including: 1) It introduces world literature which began with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827 and includes epics, poems, prose, and works from ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval times. 2) It provides an overview of some major works in Greek mythology including the Iliad, Odyssey, and Olympian gods and goddesses. 3) It summarizes some of the major plot points and characters in the Iliad including the roles of Paris, Hector, Achilles, and the fall of Troy.
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The document discusses key concepts in world literature including: 1) It introduces world literature which began with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1827 and includes epics, poems, prose, and works from ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval times. 2) It provides an overview of some major works in Greek mythology including the Iliad, Odyssey, and Olympian gods and goddesses. 3) It summarizes some of the major plot points and characters in the Iliad including the roles of Paris, Hector, Achilles, and the fall of Troy.
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English 1st Quarter


Aristotle and plato believes that good art has
social and religious functions.

World literature Olympian gods & goddesses


World literature
• Introduced by jogann wolfgang van goethe Aphrodite
• From the word 'weltliteratur' in 1827. • Goddess of fertility and love

Epic Apollo
• Stories about heroes • God of archery, art and music

The iliad & odyssey Ares


• Oldest and most popular epics in the greek • God of war
mythology.
Artemis
Poem • Goddess of wildlife and hunters
• Stanza form
Athena
Prose • Goddess of war
• Paragraph form
Demeter
Homer • Goddess of harvest and fertility
• Blind poet
Dionysus
• God of the vine

History of World literature Hades


• God of wealth
Bronze
Hephaestus
• Easiest written literature.
• God of fire / ugly god
Classical
Hera
• Great masterpieces of greek, roman, and other
ancient. • Queen of the olympian gods

Early medieval Hermes


• Begins with beowulf. • Messenger of the gods

Medieval Hestia
• Defined broadly as any work in latin. • Sibling of hades, demeter, poseidon, etc.

Modern Poseidon
• Reflected the notion of individualism and • God of the sea
rejected more.
Tyche
• Goddess of chance, fate, and fortune

Zeus
• The god of mount Olympus
Greek mythology
Deux ex machina
• God intervenes
Mount olympus
• Heaven of the gods
Polygamy
• Lots of wives
Greek mythology
Epoi
greek literature • Stories passed orally
Hera
• To be the ruler of asia and europe

The iliad Aphrodite


• To give helen of sparta
• The umbrella story of the greek mythology
Athena
Paris
• Wisdom to be the worlds greatest warrior
• Downfall of troy
• Brother of hector
• Son of king priam
Farewell between hector and
• Husband of helen
Andromache
Hector
• Noble prince of troy Trojans vs. acheans

Andromache Hector vs. patroclus


• Wife of hector Achilles vs. hector
• Most devoted and loyal wives in history Paris vs. achilles

Helen
• Most beautiful woman
• Ex wife of menelaus • Achilles was shot in the ankle (most vulnerable
part
Menelaus
• King of sparta

Patroclus
• Bestfriend of achilles

Achilles
• The greatest warrior

The plot
• The 10th year of trojan war
• The death of patroclus
• The challenge of achilles
• The fear of andromache
• The weeping of andromache
• The death of hector

Wedding of thetis and peleus

Thetis
• Sea nymph

Peleus
• Mortal
• All were invited to their wedding except eris

Eris
• God of discord / chaos

The golden apple

Paris
• The judge
The odyssey Scylla
• A six headed sea monster
Odysseus
• Cunning greek Charybdis
• Son of laertes and anticlea • A whirlpool
• Husband of penelope
• Father of telemachus, telegonus, and acusilaus Thrinacia
Penelope • The crew killed the cattles and ate them
• Wife of odysseus • Helios complained to zeus about the slaughter
of his cattles
Telemachus • Zeus striked odysseus' ship with a great
• Son of odysseus and penelope thunderbolt
• Odysseus only survived.
IsmaRa
• Home of the ciconians Calypso
• First island he went to after the trojan war • The daughter of titan atlas, fell inlove with
odysseus and offered to make him immortal
Lotus eaters • Held captive for 7 years
• Where the lotus fruit contained a powerful • Athena begged zeus to finally make odysseus
drug (who eats will forget their past) go home.

Cyclops Scheria
• Giant cyclops polyphemus, son of poseidon • Home of the phaeasians
• Poseidon cursed all of odysseus' crew to be • Ruled by king alcinous and queen arete
missing and wander the sea for 10 years • Demidocus sang/poet

Aeolia Ithaca
• Floating island • Athena transformed into an old beggar
• King aeolus offered a leather bag to odysseus • Penelope waeved a garment and remarry when
containing the power of the winds finished
• The wind pushed them back to aeolia • Odysseus first stopped at his loyal servants
home "eumaeus"
Laestrygonia • Odysseus last line "where do I begin?'
• Laestrygonian giants ruined every ship
odysseus had

Aeaea
• Beautiful witch "circe", daughter of sun god
helios
• Hermes stopped odysseus from saving his crew
and gave him a "moly" a magic herb.
• Circe + odysseus = telegonus
• Circe advised him to go to the underworld and
find prophet tiresias.

The underworld
• Odysseus would summon the spirits of the
dead where the prophet would appear
• They should refrain from eating helios' cattles if
they wanted to make it home alive.

The sirens
• Bewitching songs
• The sirens would kill themselves if a mortal
resisted to unhear them
textual aids I - inform, provide factual information
E - entertain, amuse and delight

Textuals aids Exposition


• Tools or guides that allows readers to • Beginning of the story
understand complex concepts.
Setting
Types of textual aids: • The time and place of the action

Venn diagram Characters


• Uses overlapping ovals to show relationship • The people, creatures or animals who are in the
between topics discussed in a text. story.

Flowchart Protagonist
• Organizes the sequence, process, connection, • Main character
and relationship between people, places,
things, etc. Antagonist
• Villain, enemy, or the evildoer in the story.
Graphic organizer
• The general term Dynamic character
• Concept that makes them concrete • Character who develops, changes, and evolves
around time.
Concept map
• Illustration of an important idea accompanied Static character
by its specific characteristics. • Does not experience change in the course of
the story.
Bar graph
• Represents the numerical value Round character
• Vertical or horizontal images that explain a data • Complex and risk - taker.
set in specific categories. • Resolves issue
Line graph Flat character
• Points that connect and intersect with each • Posseses a singular trait or personality
other
• X - axis ( horizontal ) Stock character
• Y - axis ( vertical ) • Stereotyped into playing a part expected of
him/her
Map
Foil
• Shows the physical feature, characteristics, and
dimensions of a location. • Usually character playing a supportingf role

Table Rising action


• Columns or rows • Where the conflict begins to build
• Set of figures or facts that show a large
collection of data that are linked together.

Pie charts
• Circular image that is divided into particular
parts or segments.

Plot, setting & characterization

Author's purpose
• Identifies and reveals
3 general purposes
P - persuade, convince and influence
Plot, setting & characterization

external conflict
• Character opposed by another person or other
forces outside himself.

Physical conflict
• Man vs. man
Classical conflict
• Man vs. circumstances
Social conflict
• Man vs. society
Internal conflict
• Character struggles with his personlaity
Psychological conflict
• Man vs. himself
Climax
• Turning point of the story, where the conflict
reaches the highest point, and characters face a
bigger challenge.

Falling action
• Where the conflict begins to resolve and
characters start to find solutions.

Analytical listening

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