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59 Cards in this Set
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Narrative
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The representation of a story-organizing time
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Narrative Discourse
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The STORY as narrated, not necessarily chronological, can have flashbacks and flashforwards
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Story
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A chronological sequence of events involving entities
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Entities
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One of the two components: human, human-like characters/insentient objects -
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Insentient
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An event happening not related to humans ex. wind rippling on a pond
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Events
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One of two components of a story, acts, actions, or happenings
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Agency
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The capacity of an entity to cause events, the ability to affect change within one's environment
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Plot
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Order in which story-events are arranged in the narrative
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Storyworld
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The diegesis or world in which the story occurs, often synonymous with setting, ex Atlanta
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Antagonist
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Commonly the enemy or opponent o of the story's hero
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Protagonist
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The hero or central figure in the story
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Masterplot
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Recurrent skeletal stories, made their way into culture
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Type
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A kind of character that recurs across a range of narrative texts, stereotypes, racists
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Normailization
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The power of narrative form to convey a sense of reality or truth
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Chrono-logic
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The interrelationship between internal and external time sequences, weeks are shown in minutes
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Framing Narrative
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An embedded narrative is typically nested within this concept
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Embedded narrative
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a story within a story
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Reflexivity
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The condition in which a work calls attention to itself as constructed art, acknowledging that it's art
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Allusion
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A passing reference to another literary or historical work, figure, or passage
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Allegory
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An extended metaphor the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence also an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression
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Interior Monologue
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1st person, train of thought or stream of consciousness
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Dramatic Monologue
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1st person narrator speaking to some one else, the reader overhears
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Letter Narration
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1st person, narrator writing a letter
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Diary Narration
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1st person, narrator writing diary entries
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Subjective Narration
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1st person, narrator seems unreliable, guides reader. Narrator is main character, tries to get us to share their side, or assume values or views we don't share
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Detached Autobiography
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1st person narrator is reliable guides reader. Narrator is main character often reflecting on a past "self"
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Memoir or Observer Narration
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1st person, narrator is observer rather than main participant, narrator can be confident, eye-witness or chorus, provides back stage , can be reliable or unreliable
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Anonymous or omniscient narration, single character point of view
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3rd person narrator is generally reliable narrator is omniscient and ubiquitous in terms of knowing all about ONE character in the story presented from one character's vantage point
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Anonymous or omniscient narration, double character point of view
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3rd person, generally reliable narrator presents inner life of two characters, knows all there is to know about these two characters
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Anonymous, Omniscient, or Hyperomniscient Narration, Multiple character point of view
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3rd person narrator presents inner life, thoughts, actions of several characters
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Anonymous or Omniscient, Narration No character point of view
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3rd person narrator generally reliable stays out of minds of characters presents story in eyewitness or chorus account narrator is not a confident does not present characters thoughts
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Order
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Narrative is a series of events in a specific temporal order - with a beginning middle and end
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Causality
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The ordering of events is not the whole story, logical or casual connections between one event and another complicate our sense of basic progression
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Teleology
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The beginning, middle, and end sequence. Readers desires are to get to the end. There must be an attempt made to connect the beginning to the end.
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Suspense
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The tying up of a story that is delayed. Balancing act between not revealing too much and just revealing enough
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Chronos
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Successive time emptied of any significance
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Kairos
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Time charged with past and future the moment of crisis or the critical occasion the season a point in time filled with significance. Informs narrative discourse, urgency
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Crisis
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A way of thinking about the present as being totally end directed.
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Consonance
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Humans perpetually in the middest, cant remember birth, don't know when death is going to come. Humans make considerable investments in coherent patterns
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Peripeteia
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A sudden change of fortune, from either prosperity to ruin or the other way around, Irony
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Decadence
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The age old hope for utopia for eternal times of peace and love, humans embracing the middest, rejecting end-directed thinking,
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Empire
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New kingdom to be ruled
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Wholeness
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Narratives are not always whole, sometimes we impose wholeness on them even when they aren't there
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Epistomphila
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Our need to know, we can't take suspense forever
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Prolepsis
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Flashforward
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Analepsis
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Flashback
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Verisimitlitude
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Reality or truth and the ability for the author to convey these things
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Imminence
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Means something is about to transpire
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Immanence
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The limits of possible experience
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Patriarchy
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The father or oldest male is the head of the family
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Disconfirmation
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When our predictions of the end are wrong and how to bounce back
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Hyperbole
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Ironic form of exaggeration
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Litotes
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Understatement
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Hell's fine print
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It was best to forget your past
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Theodicy
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Ellerbee's prayer calling God out, humanity putting God on trial making God justify his ways
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Verbal Irony
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Figure of speech
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Normalization
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The power of narrative form to convey a sense of reality or truth
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Monologue
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Character speaking to an audience
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Soliloquy
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Character speaking to themselves
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