Problem: In a modern sense, comedy (from the , "komoidia") refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse in ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.

Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of their humour. Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them.
1. In modern terms what does comedy refer to?
2. How can Greek comedy bed described?
3. how did Northrop Frye characterize these two opposing sides?
4. How does satire and political satire use comedy?
5. Where is comedy especially used?
6. How is youth understood in the portrayal of greek comedy?
7. Where are the origins of the term comedy found?
8. How was the public opinioin of voters influnced in Athenian democracy?
9. How does parody function?
10. How does a revised view characterized the essential agon of comedy?
Answer: 1. any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing
2. a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict.
3. a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old"
4. to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of their humour.
5. in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy
6. the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority
7. in Ancient Greece.
8. by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.
9. Parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them.
10. as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes

Problem: Walter owns three Italian restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers all over the world. He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics of his father _ . It made him a person who studied and explored the secrets in the food business. Walter's learning never stops. He says " The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind." So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work. Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says "Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I'm a happy man."
1. How does Walter want to be remembered?
Answer: 1. as a person who is creative

Problem: CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE MOAT

Fortunio and the Marquise reached the window side by side, and they were in time to hear a dull splash in the waters fifty feet below them. There was a cloud over the little sickle of moon, and to their eyes, fresh from the blaze of candle-light, the darkness was impenetrable.

"He is in the moat," cried the Marquise excitedly, and Valerie, who sat on the floor whither she had slipped when Fortunio shook her off, rocked herself in an agony of fear.

To the horrors about her--the huddled bodies lying so still upon the floor, the bloody footprints everywhere, the shattered furniture, and the groans of the man with the wounded thigh--to all this she was insensible. Garnache was dead, she told herself; he was surely dead; and it seemed as if the very thought of it were killing, too, a part of her own self.

Unconsciously she sobbed her fears aloud. "He is dead," she moaned; "he is dead."

The Marquise overheard that piteous cry, and turned to survey the girl, her brows lifting, her lips parting in an astonishment that for a second effaced the horrors of that night. Suspicion spread like an oil stain in her evil mind. She stepped forward and caught the girl by one of her limp arms. Marius, paler than his stunning had left him, leaned more heavily against the door-post, and looked on with bloodshot eyes. If ever maiden avowed the secret of her heart, it seemed to him that Valerie avowed it then.
1. who went to the window
2. Were they in a line
3. what did they hear when they walked up
4. how far down
5. who was sitting on the floow
6. what emotion was she feeling
7. what was everywhere on the floor
8. what was broken
9. did a woman have the injured thigh
10. Who was dead
11. who heard the cry
12. who did he look over
13. how was the girl caught
14. what chapter is this story in
15. what covered the moon
16. what word was compared to an oil stain
17. who leaned against the door post
18. how was Garnache killed
19. what word was used to describe the darkness
Answer:
1. Fortunio and the Marquise
2. no
3. a dull splash
4. 50 feet down
5. Valerie
6. fear
7. bloody footprints
8. furniture
9. no
10. Garnache was dead,
11. The Marquise
12. the girl,
13. by one of her limp arms.
14. CHAPTER XVIII
15. There was a cloud
16. Suspicion
17. Marius
18. unknown
19. impenetrable.