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34 Cards in this Set
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Short Story |
A work of Fiction complete in itself, shorter than a novel, or novella; Edgar Allen Poe called it a story you can read in one sitting |
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Linked Short Stories (story cycles) |
Collection of stories in which each story has a significant element in common with all the others be it characters, setting, incident, theme. |
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Oral storytelling |
Telling stories through conversation |
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Character |
A person who has a part in a story; the quality or the sum of the qualities of such a person Characters exist in fiction by actions, voice, thoughts, feelings, and images |
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Central character |
The person on whom most of the author's attention is focused |
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Round characters |
A term invented by E.M. Foster to describe those characters who have complex or contradictory qualities, those most like human beings "capable of suprising in a convincing way" |
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Flat characters |
Also Foster. One dimensional characters who express attitude but do little more |
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Conflict |
The active opposition of a main character to anything else |
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Fixed actions |
Actions by which a character can be identified |
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Moving actions |
The way a character acts against their normal habits |
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Arc of character |
The way in which a character grows |
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Setting |
A place in time and space where writers set their characters and in which something happens |
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Atmosphere |
The spirit or mood of a story; achieved through setting or language |
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Dialogue |
Representation of conversation between two or more characters |
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Dialect |
Distinctive speech patterns or verbal idiosyncrasies particular to region, class, education or ethnic groups |
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Monologue |
Dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character speaks aloud to himself or the audience, revealing thought |
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Internal monologue |
A monologue in which a character is not speaking aloud but is instead thinking |
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Stream of consciousness |
A narrative technique that seeks to capture consciousness- actual and thought-- via words and language |
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Style |
A writer's vision reflected in language; diction , figurative language, imagery, tone |
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Voice |
A writer's vision |
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Diction |
Word choice and syntax |
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Figurative language |
Non-literal language meant to narrow meaning |
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Imagery |
Use of vivid or specific language to represent actions, ideas, or objects |
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Tone |
Apparent attitude of an author toward the work. Connected with atmosphere and mood; sorrowful, bright, joyus, etc |
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Assonance |
Vowel sound repeating |
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Consonance |
Consonant sound repeating |
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Alliteration |
Same letter at the beginning |
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Rhythm |
Measured flow of words and phrases |
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Rhyme |
Correspondence of sound between words |
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Felt life |
Literature should reveal life experience in ways that are frank, unidealized, honest, and aware of qualities such as difference, tenderness, frailty, nastiness all in their actual proportion |
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Experienced meaning |
Literature's primary value comes from the experience of reading the story |
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Comedy |
The representation of situations that delight and amuse and which end happily |
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Tragedy |
The representation of serious and Important actions that culminate in catastrophe |
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Tragicomic |
Tragic stories that contain comic scenes and characters or vice versa |
