Define the literary term
A fictional person in a short story, a novel or a feature film
What is a character
Young people between 13 and 19
Who are / what is teenagers
A symbol of love, affection and life
What is heart?
Clara takes off her clothes at school.
Stan only wears underpants and a towel around his neck
What is nakedness, being naked
What is narrator?
A person who tells a story in a short story, a novel or a film
Young people who are developing from childhood to adulthood
Who are / What is adolescents?
A symbol of obstacles, challenges and hardship
What is mountain?
" So Pangma-La dried her tears and vowed never to be ordinary and disappoint him (her father) again."
What is respect / submissiveness / affection?
names, appearance, language, development, social background, flat/round, simple/complex, main/minor
What is character?
Time place and socal background
What is setting?
A situation e.g. between young people and their parents in which they are involved in a serious disagreement
What is conflict?
The colour of innocence, purity and godliness
What is white?
Precious learns to read and write, moves into a halfway house and refuses to go back to her mother
What is independence / self reliance?
objective, limited omniscient, omniscient
What is point of view?
The main idea of a text created by an author
What is message?
Characteristics, feelings and/or beliefs that distinguish one person from another
What is identity?
The common symbol of entering something new or for exclusion
" ... and then Clara began to cry, the tears dripping from her chin on to her folded arms and her face screwed up like a small child's. "
What is giving up / resignation?
subject, topic
What is theme?
The way the narrator sees the story from a certain point of view
What is point of view?
A time of confusion when problems must be solved and important decisions must be made
What is crisis?
Fate, adventure and change are symbols of this
What is journey?
" Then ... to make myself sound grown up..."
What is pretending / lying?
mirror, antagonist, a way of revealing character, a means to reeinforce (forstærke) the theme
What is setting?