What should the literary experience provide students?
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A love for literature and an appreciation for its beauty.
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What should the literary experience provide students?
A love for literature and an appreciation for its beauty.
What is the desired outcome for students after the literary experience?
To read on their own and become lifelong readers of literature.
How does Fitzgerald reveal the central theme of materialism in The Great Gatsby?
By illustrating the weak moral code, distorted reality, and the obsession with money in human beings.
What is one of the most widely cited literary examples of loneliness?
The characters in the 20th century novel 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck.
What theme is often expressed in books/novels and literature to intrigue readers and allow them to relate to characters and emotions?
Identity (self-views).
What is growing up often described as?
A search for one's identity.
What do adult themes of aging involve?
Life crises, life review, retirement concerns, illness, mourning, death, and occasional instances of epic courage.
What is the central theme of The Great Gatsby?
Materialism as the main source of moral downfall, distorted reality, and society's excessive desire for wealth.
What is the literary purpose of literature according to the text?
To provide an escape from the 'real' world and to develop an understanding of the importance of literature as a vital source of cultural knowledge in everyday life.
How does literature allow us to explore alternative realities?
By viewing things from the perspective of someone completely different and reflecting upon our own intellectual and emotional responses to the challenges of everyday life.
What does conformity mean?
Behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.
How do metaphors help us understand complex ideas and emotions?
Metaphors help us recognize and make sense of a wide range of complex ideas and emotions.
According to the text, what is a metaphor?
A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another.
How does literature contribute to the development of critical thinking?
It challenges students to interrogate their own beliefs and practices, interpret, analyze, and criticize things in their own life and those around them.
What are some themes related to the human experience?
Parent/child relationships, death, loneliness, conformity, and growing up.
According to the text, what does good literature reveal?
Things we never saw or experienced before.
What are some examples of human rights?
Right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, right to work and education, and more.
How does a writer express a worldview using the literary purpose?
The writer might comment on human nature or behavior through the literary purpose.
What themes are almost always portrayed in conjunction with death?
Betrayal, vengeance, greed, honor, justice, courage, and failure.
What is literary competence?
The ability to internalize the grammar of literature and convert linguistic sequences into literary structures and meaning.
What does literature reflect according to the text?
Life and human experiences.
What does literature allow readers to do?
Look back in time and discover about life on Earth from those who walked before us.
What is a metaphor in literature?
A metaphor describes one less clearly defined idea in relation to a concept whose characteristics are easier to imagine.
What metaphor does Robert Burns use in his poem 'A Red, Red Rose'?
He compares romantic love to a red, red rose.
What does Kate Chopin's 'The Story of An Hour' illustrate about death?
It implies that death may actually be a blessing under certain circumstances.
What will students learn in the literary experience?
What is beautiful in a poem, what to like in a drama, what is good in a novel or short story, or what is worthwhile in an essay.
What is literature considered as per the text?
A reflection of existence, a result of art, and a window to an ideology.
What are the types of human rights?
Individual (civil) rights, rule of law, rights of political expression, economic and social rights, rights of communities.
What are some examples of materialism in The Great Gatsby?
Explaining love in terms of material things and valuing a new car over friendships.
How does a healthy relationship with parents affect a child's development?
It helps promote a child's cognitive, emotional, and social development.
How does literature enhance imagination and creativity?
Literature allows readers to enter different worlds and hopefully inspires them to write their own poems, essays, fiction, or drama.
What can students discover through literature about the world and human nature?
Universal truths, insights, knowledge, wisdom, and values that they can apply in real life.
What does literature provide a foundation for, as mentioned in the text?
Human relationships, the complications, the barriers, the ties that bind.
What is materialism in philosophy?
The belief that matter is the fundamental substance in nature and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
What is the literary purpose?
The literary purpose is used to entertain and to give aesthetic pleasure, focusing on the words themselves and their deliberate arrangement to produce a pleasing effect.
What are the two major motives in conformity?
Normative influence and informational influence.
