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17 Cards in this Set
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What is literature?
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A linguistic production often involving self-examination or expression in which how the ideas are expressed is as important as the ideas, themselves. It implies a greater world around the text.
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What is mis en scene?
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The socio-cultural setting.
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1st Person?
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Autobiography.
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3rd Person?
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he, she, they
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Omniscient
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knows all
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limited omniscient
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only sees the thoughts of one character
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objective narrator
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see only the surface
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point-of-view
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is from the character whose thoughts are being expressed more directly and more often by the narrator than other characters
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antagonist
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A character or force whose actions oppose the protagonist.
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How does a symbol gain meaning?
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Repetitive use in the text or culturally through a group of people who agree on a meaning for the symbol.
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What parts are a symbol made of?
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The signifier and the signified.
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What is the signifier?
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The signifier is the vehicle used to represent the concept.
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What is the signified?
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The signified is the idea that is being represented by the symbol.
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What is the referent?
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The referent is the actual object, person, place, or thing.
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What types of symbols are there?
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There are conventional and natural symbols. Conventional symbols are symbols that are arbitrarily invented by a group of people. Natural symbols are symbols that visually resemble the object that is being represented.
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What is anagnorisis?
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It is the coming of knowledge to the protagonist.
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What is peripeteia?
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It is the reversal of fortune.
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