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9 Cards in this Set
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Personification
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giving human traits to non-human objects
- ex: Metamorphisis the bug (Gregor) still has feelings for his family, he decides to commit suicide, in the Genisis chapter 3 the snake is given human traitsand is able to talk to Eve. |
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Omniscient
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all knowing
- Ex:In the Ones who walk away from Omelas, the narrator knows everything about the story, and has insight into all the characters especially in the child who wants |
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Allegory
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a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor, characters, and setting have both literal and figurative meanings
- Ex: in the Metamorphosis, Kafka uses the relationship between Gregor and his family to the actual relationship between Kafka and his Father |
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Allusion
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a reference to a literary work
-Ex: Borges references Don Quixote in his story, "Pierre Menard, The Author of the Quixote" |
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suspension of disbelief
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Theory of Samuel Coolidge, that the author can count on the reader to enter the fictional world but their willingness should not be tested too far
- Ex: The first few sentences of The Metamorphisis because Kafka challenges the reader to suspend their disbelief and believe that Gregor actually turned into a bug |
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verisimilitude
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the imitation of the truth
-Ex: The list of imitation of the truth of what should have happened to Sugar after using his powers for himself like Imhrat Kahn. Instead he learns a moral which causes him to not die |
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dichotomy
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a set of polar opposites, you can not understand one without the other, they are dependent on the other for their existence
- Ex: in the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County the educated and the uneducated genuine character are two different things but they work together to make the story |
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anxiety of influence
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the thought of an author to make their work different from historical literary works but to also have similar components that these great works maintain
- Ex: Borges character, Pierre Menard has anxitety of influence in writing the Quixote, because he wants it to have similar components as Cervantes but also wants it to stand on its own. |
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postlapsarion
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the condition of mankind in which Adam and Eve sinned and knew shame in the Garden of Eden, perfect, communication went from being perfect to having faults
- Ex: In the offloading of Mrs. Schwartz, the children that go through her simulation are experiencing perfect communication because they are actually living her memories. This is what communication would be like before postlapsarion |
