Hi Class,

Here is your homework for Monday’s class:

1—Define these three terms:

-Allegory

-Flashback

-Irony and Dramatic Irony

 

2—Read two stories (in Readings menu tab; make sure to take notes and write down questions. I will ask you for questions on Monday):

• “The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges

• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

3—Write Coffeehouse Post #2. After reading these two stories, briefly describe the three Gothic Elements in the two stories (300 words), and then post to the Category: Coffeehouse #2.

Gothic Elements:

Characters: Heroes and Villains, Thieves and bandits and mysterious people, maidens and old women

Plot Points: the night journey, the trap, the escape, the miraculous survival, death/near death, the dream, the nightmare, the return to normalcy

Settings: castles, crypts, churches, graves, old houses, underground, basements, attics, forests, darkness or dark spaces, bleak or stormy settings—especially windswept, cloudy landscapes

 

*Remember: class time now at 8:50.

*I will have quiz 1 graded by Monday and we will go over the answers.

 

Have a good weekend,

Prof.  Scanlan