My Hollywood Square

For my box to "go to town" with, I chose High mimetic comic.

Vico's Ages/Time Line

1. Age of the gods
which used hieroglyphic language
2. age of heroes
used epics and epic stories
3. Age of men (humans)
commerce, trade, and economics
4. age of chaos
jipper terms such as "dude," "awesome," "cool"

I think we ought to include the term "sweet" into the age of chaos' jipper terms!

Northrup Frye's diagram

1. myth

2. romance

3. high mimetic mode

4. low mimetic mode

5. ironic

This diagram declines steadily.

Running Commentary of Don Quixote #1

I am currently on page 110. In the novel, Don Quixote is laying on the bed having his wounds mended. Sancho explains Don Quixote's role of adventuring knight to the servant of the innkeeper.

Vocabulary

flyting: insulting another person in a comical way

centripetally: out
centrifugally: inwards

intentional fallacy: focuses on what the author meant to say/mean... we don't care!
What it means is what it is

alazon: pompous imposter which can be of two types:
1. pedant- teaching type, professor, instructor

2. soldier

cosmogony- birth of the world

mimisis- imitation

poesis- creation

Apotheosis: to be immortal

gnos: to know (agnostic=to be without knowledge)

Demonic: from Greek (Daemon)-animalistic, alter-ego

didactic vocabulary- teaching words

cliches

After talking in class about cliches, I thought about this exaggeration a little more. Have we become too lazy as human beings to come up with our own thoughts, ideas, or concepts? Must we really dumb ourselves down so much as to use another person's words that came about who knows when? After thinking about this for a few minutes, I realized that the answer is yes. We have become a lazy race of living beings, but the cliches most commonly used often fit what we are saying to a T.