From the PowerPoint, make sure that you have a good start of understanding of the following concepts: Literary theory definition; philosophy definition; the origin of literary theory (Plato); definition of Idealism; Allegory of the Cave; Aristotle's Poetics; Parts of a tragedy; elements of a tragedy; Formalism definition
Your first literary terms test will be NEXT TUESDAY, January 19th. It will cover the first half of the terms. The second half will be January 25th.
For class today, I want you to read the following handout: Reasons Why We Study Literature
After you are done, in your notes, you will need to identify the top three reasons that you feel is why we study literature and your rationale as to why these are the top three reasons. You will also need to identify the top three enlightening reasons- which reasons did really push you to think about literature in a different capacity and why?
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