Literature Ch. 1-8

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What is an essay?

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Brief discussion, usually in prose, of a limited topic or idea.

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What is a thesis?

Back 2

Proposition put forward for consideration and usually placed at or her the end of the first paragraph.

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What is a story?

Back 3

Any account of a related series of events in sequential order, usually chronologically.

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What is fiction?

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Narrated stories that are drawn from the imagination or are an imaginative reworking of actual experiences.

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What are short stories?

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Relatively brief fictional narratives in prose that often focus on the essential aspects of a character or a singly event or episode--often one that is life changing.

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What is plot?

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The selection and arrangement of events in order to present them most effectively to the reader.

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What is structure?

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The arrangement of material in a plot, the ordering of its parts, the design used to draw out and convey its significance.

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What is in media res?

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Way to organize a plot. Translates to in the middle of things.

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What is a flashback?

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When earlier events are presented as an inserted narrative.

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What is an exposition?

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Non-dramatizedexplanation, often a speech by a character or narrator explaining what occurred.

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What is conflict?

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Some struggle or confrontation between opposing characters.

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What is physical conflict?

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Man vs. Man or Man vs. Nature

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What is social conflict?

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Differences regarding personal or societal relationships or values.

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What is internal or physiological conflict?

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Struggles within a character.

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What is suspense?

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Some uncertainty and concern about how things will turn out.

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What is foreshadowing?

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Anticipations of things that will happen later.

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What is repetition?

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To repeat a word or image to draw attention to an important aspect of a story.

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What is climax?

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Development of a plot becomes more complex and intense (referred to as rising action or complication) until it reaches a crisis of some sort.

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What is an epiphany?

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Moment when a character experiences a sudden moment of illumination or revelation.

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What are gaps?

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Can be done to avoid cluttering a story with irrelevancies. Can be unintentional.

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What is denouement?

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Discussing the ending of a story. Literally mean "unknotting".

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What are characters?

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The created person who appear or are referred to in narratives and dramas.

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What is characterization?

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Refers to the methods and techniques an author uses to represent people and to enable us to know and relate to them.

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What is dialogue?

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Conversation between characters.

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What is an internal dialogue?

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Entering a characters mind through daydreams, thoughts, observations, etc.

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What are round characters?

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Complex and sometime challenging. Often dynamic and shown as changing and growing. They can also be static.

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What are flat characters?

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Generally less developed, static.

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What are stock characters?

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Stereotypes easily recognized by the reader because of their frequent use.

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What is a protagonist?

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The central character in a story (hero)

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What is an antagonist?

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Character, force, or collected forces opposed to the central character in a work. Can sometimes be seen as the villain.

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What is motivation?

Back 31

Conveying the reasons, explanations, or justifications behind a character's behavior.

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What is a narrator?

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Someone who tells the story.

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What is point of view?

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The way the narrator looks at how things occur in a story.

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What is first person point of view?

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When a story is told by a narrator using the first-person pronoun I.

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What is a naive narrator?

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Narrator that is too young or inexperiences to know what he is talking about.

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What is an unreliable narrator?

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Narrator that may not have mental capacity to provide a coherent account of events or has prejudices.

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What is a reliable narrator?

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Narrator that often tells his story accurately and honestly.

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What is persona?

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Character projected by the author.

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What is third person narration?

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Stories told by an anonymous or identified outside observers who do not refer to themselves using the pronouns I or we.

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What is third person omniscient point of view?

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When story is told by an external narrator who relates actions and conversation but also describes thoughts or feeling of more than one character (having unlimited knowledge).

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What is third person objective point of view?

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Takes outside view and relates action and dialogue but narrator is objective. Doesn't comment on what happens and doesn't include inner, personal thoughts or feelings of characters. Leaves it to the reader to draw conclusions.

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What is third person limited point of view (limited omniscient)?

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Can look into the mind or feelings of only one character.

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What is center of consciousness?

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Narrator relates the story in third person but tells the story entirely through the thoughts feeling and memories of one character.

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What is interior monologue?

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Extended, uninterrupted speech by a single speaker within his own mind.

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What is stream of consciousness?

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Whatever passes through the mind of a character. Includes sense perceptions as well as thoughts, memories and feelings. Total sense of awareness the mental and emotional response to it.

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What is theme?

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What the story all adds up to. The central idea or concept.

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What is setting?

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Overall context-where, when, and in what circumstances the action occurs.

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What is atmosphere?

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The mood or emotional quality that surrounds and permeates a literary work.

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What is a symbol?

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An object, an event, or a person that suggests more than its literal meaning.

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What is an allegory?

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A form or manner, usually narrative, in which objects, persons, and action literally present in a story are equated to things outside of the story.

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What is tone (tone of voice)?

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Can add up to, modify, or even invert the meaning of the words expressed. It gets in, around, and behind words to indicate the attitude the work takes toward characters, setting, subject etc. Word choice, phrasing and comparisons can convey this.

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What is style?

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The way the author handles words and sentences. The way the work presents itself.

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What is diction?

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Word choice

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What are images?

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Words that attend to particulars.

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What is abstract language?

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Words that convey concepts rather than things.

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What is rhythm?

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The pattern and cadences in the flow and movement of sentences created by the arrangement of words and phrases.

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What is sentax?

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The sentence style.

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What is irony?

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Expression in which the writer or speaker creates a discrepancy or incongruity between what seems to be and what is.

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What is verbal irony?

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Saying the opposite of what they actually mean.

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What is situational irony?

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When what we think is going to happen doesn't. The exact opposite does.

Front 61

How is the author of "A&P"?

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John Updike

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What are the main character's names in "A&P"?

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Sonny the clerk/first person narrator.

Queenie, the leader of the group of 3 girls.

Lengel, the manager of the store.

Front 63

Who is the author of "Love in L.A."?

Back 63

Dagoberto Gilb

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Who are the main characters in "Love in L.A."?

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Jake and Mariana

Front 65

Who is the author of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"?

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Katherine Ann Porter

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Who are the main characters in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"?

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Granny (Ellen), Cornelia, Dr. Harry, George (lover), John (husband), Hapsy (first child that was lost), Father Connelly (priest).

Front 67

Who is the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

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Flannery O'Connor

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Who are the central characters in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

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Grandmother, Bailey (son), The Misfit (criminal), John Wesley (grandson), June Star (grandaughter), Pitty Sing (the family cat), Hiram (The Misfit's henchman), Bobby Lee (the other henchman).

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Who is the author of "Everyday Use"?

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Alice Walker

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Who are the main characters in "Everyday Use"?

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Mother, Maggie (disfigured daughter), Dee (educated daughter, aka Wangero), Hakim-a-barber (Dee's companion/lover?).

Front 71

Who is the author of "Hills Like White Elephants"?

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Ernest Hemingway

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Who are the main characters in "Hills Like White Elephants"?

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Man (the american), Jig, Waitress

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Who is the author of "Young Goodman Brown"?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who are the central characters in "Young Goodman Brown"?

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Goodman Brown, Faith, Goody Cloyse, Martha Carrier

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Who is the author of "The Lesson"?

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Toni Cade Bambara

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Who are the central characters in "The Lesson"?

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Sylvia (narrator), Sugar, Miss Moore, Flyboy, Fattbutt (Ronald), Junebug, QT, Rose Giraffe, Mercedes.

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Who is the author of "The Story of an Hour"?

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Kate Chopin

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Who are the central character in "The Story of an Hour"?

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Mrs. Mallard, Brently Mallard, Richards (family friend), Josephine (Mrs. Mallard's sister)