Archetypes
The wise guide who helps the hero understand the journey.
What is the Mentor archetype?
Magical realism combines supernatural or mystical occurences with these kinds of elements.
What are ordinary and/or mundane, everyday elements?
This early stage of writing involves brainstorming ideas before drafting begins.
What is prewriting?
Paulo Coelho is from this country.
Brazil
A deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or emotional effect.
What is hyperbole?
The archetype representing chaos, humor, or disruption.
What is the Trickster?
In magical realism, supernatural events are generally treated in this way by characters.
What is as normal?
This type of source comes directly from the original time period or event studied, like Elie Wiesel's Night.
What is a primary source?
The Alchemist was originally written in this language.
What is Portugeuse?
Giving human traits or actions to nonhuman objects or ideas, like the desert, wind, sun, or one's heart.
What is personification?
Carl Jung believed humans share this universal reservoir of symbolic patterns.
What is the collective unconscious?
This story is about the ancient "Moteca" people, human sacrifices, and a motorcycle accident.
What is "The Night Face Up" or "The Night Upside Down?"
This sentence presents the argument or controlling idea of a particular paraphraph.
What is a topic sentence?
The Alchemist was originally published in this year.
What is 1988?
A phrase like “deafening silence” that combines contradictory terms is this device.
What is an oxymoron?
The character archetype that announces the call to adventure.
What is the Herald?
In "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" the people prefer the spider woman to the old man because her story is this.
What is relatable and understandable, with a clear moral lesson (as opposed to the mysterious man with wings)?
Research sources must be evaluated for this c-word, like determining if the author has credentials or if the article has been peer reviewed.
What is credibility?
The literary genres included in The Alchemist include allegory, fable, and this, which is an extremely short story designed to teach a moral or spiritual truth (hint: they are also common in the Bible).
What is a parable?
When two contrasting ideas, characters, or images are placed side-by-side for effect, the author is using this technique.
What is juxtaposition?
Joseph Campbell used this term (that starts with an "m") for the repeating universal story pattern found across cultures.
What is the monomyth?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” He is from this country.
What is Colombia?
This type of writing is explanatory in nature.
What is expository?
We read The Alchemist, in part, because of its worldwide popularity. It has been translated into this many languages, and has sold over 150 million copies by 2026.
What is 80?
A literary work that uses humor, irony, or exaggeration to criticize society, politics, or human behavior belongs to this genre or device category
What is satire?