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28 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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Unified: ~24hour period (eg. Miss Brill, An Upheaval)
Episodic: events potentially stretch over years (eg The Boat, Happy Endings) |
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Protagonist
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Main character (Mansenka, Miss Brill)
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Antagonist
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Person drawn in to conflict with protagonist (Fedosya)
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Static Character
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remains unchanged (essentially)
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Dynamic Character
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Undergo change/perspective change (Nikolai)
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Round vs. Flat character
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Round: fully developed, reader gets good insight
Flat: otherwise known as stock, no real insight, just a filler |
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Theme
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-concept, abstract made concrete through exploration by a character/action/image
-full theme requires both a subject (concept) and a claim about what the author is saying about the subject (eg love hurts) |
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Free Indirect Discourse
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-style of 3rd person narration which combines 3rd person report with 1st person speech
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Imagery
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-representation of a sensory experience/person/object
-all metaphors present images -eg: animal imagery used in Miss Brill |
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1st person narration
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-know source of knowledge
-limited knowledge, own history -personality influences how it is told, but how it is told influences how view narrator |
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Freytag's pyramid
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Exposition- conflict introduced
Rising action- conflict further developed Climax- moment of highest tension, OR protagonist undergoes a fundamental shift Falling action- resolution Denoument- conclution |
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Tone
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-overall attitude the work presents to its topic
-attitude towards subject and audience implied within work |
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Realism
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work that tries to create world as we experience it, drawing reader into narrative world and holding them there--lost in a good book
-narrative must be coherent -characters have some consistency -lots of description -avoid drawing attention to status as story |
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Metafiction
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-opposite of realism
-draws attention to the fictional nature of what you're reading -shifts from emotional to analytic relationship |
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Genre
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-loosely governed by conventions
-one central plot-line, typically |
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traditional genre
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character, put under pressure, deal with it, come out different than they were
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Types of narration in short stories
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Upheaval: 3rd person limited omniscience
Miss Brill: " with free indirect discourse The Boat: 1st person Happy Endings: 3rd person fully omniscient |
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Ways to develop character
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-narrator description (omniscience)
-dialogue -action (things characters do) |
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standard verse
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follows pre-existant conventions
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free verse
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not governed by conventions
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Sonnets
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-standard verse
-2 type: Italian, Shakespearean |
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Shakespearean sonnet
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-stanza structure: 3 quatrain 1 couplet
-quatrain ABAB -couplet GG -iambic pentameter -thematic convention: love, devotion -volta (occurs in couplet) |
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Iambic pentameter
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"iamb": metrical foot-2 beats, one unstressed, other stressed
"pent" the line has five feet |
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Enjambment
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syntactic sense or meaning flows over one line into the next
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allegory
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extended metaphor, claims within a narrative represent things outside of narrative
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Symbol
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Images that do two things:
-representation of an object which evokes a concrete objective reality -offer meanings beyond this concrete reality Static or dynamic: -symbolize the same thing or can shift with time, |
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Characterization in theatre
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built through:
-description -dialogue -action no narration |
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Gothic Style
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-creepy architectural dwelling
-presence of haunting/ghost -violence, often bloody -presence of secrets eg Frankenstein, Dracula, Wuthering Heights |
