Setting
Roaring 1920's
What is Time?
This is when an author specifically tells the audience what a character is like, such as describing them as "generous" or "selfish."
What is direct characterization?
One of the most common types of narrator, this is a character in the story who uses "I" to tell their own story or the story of others from their perspective. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Handmaid's Tale, and Breath, Eyes, Memory use this type of narrator.
What is first-person?
Structure focuses primarily on a story's ________, the sequence of events in a narrative and how they are connected, with each event building on the others, often with a cause-and-effect relationship.
What is plot?
Language that is not figurative is _______.
What is Literal?
NYC Central Park
What is Place?
Serena Joy from The Handmaid's Tale and The Prophet from Station Eleven exemplify this type of character: one-dimensional, showing a single trait, and don't develop over the course of the text.
What is a static character?
This type of narrator is an outside entity telling the story about other characters using "he/she/they." This is employed in Mandel's post-pandemic novel Station Eleven.
What is third-person?
This most common type of structure is characterized by a beginning, middle, and end told in chronological order. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the only summer reading book structured like this.
What is traditional, classic, OR linear?
The Green Light or Dr. T J. Eckleburg's rimmed glasses are _____________in The Great Gatsby.
What are symbols?
In The Crucible many of the characters are Puritans with very traditional religious beliefs. This is used to convey the ______________ of the setting.
What is Values?
Junior and Rowdy in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and Atie and Martine in Breath, Eyes, Memory are examples of this literary device—when one character contrasts with another, typically the protagonist, to highlight key traits.
What are character foils?
A key narrative element in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the interweaving of Junior's written story with his ____________, which helps to further the plot and offers more than just words.
What are cartoons?
Station Eleven, The Handmaid's Tale, and Breath, Eyes, Memory employ this type of narrative technique, where events are told out of chronological order, utilizing flashbacks or flash-forwards.
What is non-linear or fractured?
The following is a device of Figurative Language
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
What is imagery?
This popular Netflix series was a spinoff from the novel that discussed the contrasting ___________between Offred and the setting.
What is relationship?
This type of characterization is where readers learn about the character without being directly told (more by what they say, how they act, what they do, etc)
What is indirect characterization?
An_________ narrator functions to create doubt, tension, and mystery by distorting the truth, leading the audience to question the narrator's account and re-evaluate events. It also serves to reveal the narrator's complex psychological state or biases. Such is the case with Atonement's Briony.
What is unreliable?
Sometimes structure involves a big ________ in the narrator or point of view. This occurs in Atonement's epilogue when the narrative switches from third-person to Briony as a first-person narrator.
What is a shift?
In Edwidge Danticat's novel Breath, Eyes, Memory, "breath," "eyes," and "memory" serve as powerful ____________symbolizing vitality (breath), the act of witnessing and enduring trauma (eyes).
What are motifs?
In Station 11 the Flu Pandemic ______________ as a backdrop to why society has collapsed and how they try to regain civilization.
What is Functions?
Kirsten from Station Eleven, Sophie from Breath, Eyes, Memory, Junior from Absolutely True Diary..., and Robbie from Atonement are all this type of character: one who undergoes significant internal change and growth, often learning a lesson or evolving their personality, worldview, or behavior.
What is dynamic character?
Breath, Eyes, Memory uses first-person narrative in a chronological past tense. The narrative structure incorporates Sophie's memory which fits perfectly with the genre of the story which is _____________.
What is memoir?
A "book within a book" is a structural technique where one story exists inside a larger one. This serves as a motif that reflects characters' trauma, connection, and search for meaning in which summer reading novel? (HINT: the book within a book is a graphic novel)
What is Station Eleven?
In the novel Atonement the author refers to the Triton fountain—an ___________ to Bernini's Fontana del Tritone in Rome.
What is Allusion?