Synthesis of Course Material 3

I won't even bother introducing my two "excellent students" here. Just sit back and enjoy.

Now I let you off last time on the terms. I hope you will study those before the AP exam because you will fail if you don't study them.
- Thanks..........

I won't badger you anymore on the matter. Quickly tell me about DoS?
- dos?????

DEATH OF A SALESMAN!
- Oh, I thought you were talking about the disk operating system. Thought you were having trouble with your computer or something....... well, the main character Willy Loman, loves to idealize the past rather than to live realistically, he loves his boys but fails to recognize their present situation...... and oh, he wants to be liked, to be remembered just like the salesman in his story.

That's a good start. Tell me more.
- He has a falling out with Biff because Biff finds him to be "phony" cheating on his wife and it's important to note that through his experience, he is the only one who changes in the play. Biff's somewhat foil is Bernard who achieves success, well who is virtually the opposite of what Biff is, successful, not very well liked but hardworking. Willy doesn't realize the new key to success and idealizes quick and somewhat "phony" version of success. He longs for adventure which is probably why he rambles on about the jungle.

Nice, don't forget, Arthur Miller is critiquing society here so we can reasonably infer that this is what America was like in his time.
- Quite right.

Now tell me, what are the eras of literature we studied?
- Classical Antiquities and the Middle Ages, The Renaissance, Romanticism, the Victorian Era, Naturalism, and Modernism. Did I get all of them?

Almost you only forgot Realism and Postmodernism. What can you tell me about each era?
- O dear I think I'm talking too much this feels weird........

Get use to it.
- Ok, ok, fine. For classical antiquities we have the Odyssey, eh, scratch that. I'll just say Ancient Greeks and Romans. Here we have poetry that is sung which is a oral tradition, mostly uses elevated language, and a lot of tragedies features a tragic hero with a fatal flaw.

What's that fatal flaw called and who coined that term?
- Hamartia coined by Aristotle, BOOMTOWN! haha

haha ok, continue.
- For medieval stuff just think about Beowulf or Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. It's translated from Old English and mostly uses elevated language that is very annoyingly detailed. For the Renaissance..... well that dude, Shakespeare, nuff said really. Writers here wanted to return essentially to classical antiquities. For romanticism and Victorian, authors start to look at gender roles, class, money, the industrial age yea basically all the problems perceived in their society and they finally start to write the way people actually talk not in all this elevated language I really don't like...... Realists and Naturalists examine the relationship between man and nature most notably Wordsworth and lastly, Modern/Post-Modernism tests the old conventional limits of literature such as chronological order or the absurdity of literature. And the playwrights love to critique the society around them. Hey now I think about it, Albee and Miller are both Modern/Post-Modernist people.

Lol, good for you to just notice that. Well I think we'll stop here. You did a better job this time but you can always make it better.
- You sound like my wrestling coach.......