Narration/Narrative
The story is told to the reader in the order in which the events happen.
What is chronological order?
This author was born after the Civil War in America.
What is (Who is) William Faulkner?
This mother and son spend little time together.
What is (Who are) Eliot's mother and Eliot?
Narrative plot:
within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.
What is rising action?
The fear of loss and alienation experienced by individuals living far from their original cultural environment
What is Cultural Displacement?
The sequence of events mimics memory.
What is non-chronological structure?
This author's parents raised him/her in London but they themselves were not from the UK.
What is (Who is) Jhumpa Lahiri?
The entirety of this character's life takes place within the story. (character and story title)
What is (Who is) "you" from "Story of Your Life"?
The fish represent more than an ingredient to Mrs. Sen. (literary device)
What is symbolism?
Nature knows best.
What is the third informal law of ecology?
This story is told by a narrator who respect(s), pity and resent the main character.
What is "A Rose for Emily"?
Provides the cultural, social and/or political framework for a narrative.
What is historical context?
The character(s) who introduces Fermat's Principle vs. the character(s) whose reasoning is similarly "variational".
What is (Who is) Gary Donnelly vs. the heptapods?
The fish is not only, existentially, a fish, but also an element of this network, which defines its functions.
What is "Everything is connected to everything else"?
The idea that language influences how people perceive and conceptualize the world, particularly memory and recall, vs. the idea that language strictly limits how you think.
What is linguistic relativity vs. linguistic determinism?
A literary device used by an author to enhance a narrative or idea using "like or "as" vs. a similar device that doesn't use "like" or "as".
What is simile vs. metaphor?
This author is referenced within a short story, a book within a story.
What is Book of Ages. What is a Borgesian Fabulation? Who is Jorge Luis Borges
Kept in a cage, mirroring the isolation and confined state of a main character. (answer and story title)
What is lobsters, "Mrs. Sen's"?
The type of phone book that Mrs. Sen calls to order fish.
What is the "yellow pages"?
This type of writing communicates concepts without directly representing spoken words or sounds
What is semasiographic writing?