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