Genre
Meant to scare, startle, shock, and even repulse audiences
The narrative does not go in chronological order
Non-linear
Comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Analogy
Creator of horizons of expectation
Hans Robert Jauss
Who is responsible for‘The intentional fallacy’?
Wimsatt & Beardsley
Places strong emphasis on intense emotion, pairing terror with pleasure, death with romance.
Gothic
An untrustworthy storyteller, most often used in narratives
Unreliable narrator
Takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens
Situational irony
The hypothetical reader that is predisposed to appreciate the effects of the text
Implied reader (Wolfgang Iser)
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
Soliloquy
Immediately places viewers in the middle of a plotline and offers a teaser of the narrative to come
Cold opening
Using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.
Parallelism
According to Rosenblatt, the reader + the text = ?
The poem
A coming-of-age text
Bildungsroman
A narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.
Stream-of-consciousness
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
Paradox
We shape and find our self-identities in the reading process. Each person who reads a story, poem, or even a single word construes it differently.
Identity theory / Norman Holland
Who believes the name of an author is a variable that accompanies only certain texts to the exclusion of others?
Michel Foucault
1900s-1940s. Rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse.
Modernist
The story ends where it began.
Circular Narrative
The writer's choice of words because of their connotative meanings.
Connotative diction
Who insists that there is nothing beyond intersubjective agreement, and the text is reduced to merely an area of overlap of subjective responses?
Stanely Fish