identify
elements of short fiction & drama + description
- character
- setting
- plot
- conflict
- theme
character: person who takes part in the action of a literary work.
setting: time and place where literary work takes place.
plot: series of events and character action related to the central conflict.
conflict: struggle between people or things in a literary work.
theme: central idea/belief for reader to take away from a literary work.
elements of drama outside of sf + description of them
- audience
- space
- time
- mood + atmosphere
- relationships
- dialogue
- movement
audience: ppl exp performance, inc other performers
space: fictive setting & physical space of performers and audience
time: fictional time & timing from one moment to the next
mood & atmosphere: feelings evoked by physical space & dramatic action dev from the performance
relationships: connections between ppl that affect the dramatic action
dialogue: words spoken by a character during the performance. voice (intonation) + language used
movement: use of facial expressions, posture, and action in space and time to create setting, character, plot, mood, and atmosphere
terms for formal poetry:
rhyme, rhyme scheme
meter, foot
rhyme: simi of sounds in words
rhyme scheme: pattern of rhymes at end of a particular line of poetry
meter: rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. creates flow of poetry, dramas that use poetry, music
foot: 1 stressed + 1 unstressed syllable (diff versions have diff names)
1. Affordances
2. If dishwashes were iphones
3. Sole and despotic dominion
4. tomorrow is waiting
5. why you should never trust a data scientist
1. building 34: 92, Recog facial recognition product, 33
Cuidad Juarez, Little Haiti, Miami: yolanda, officer dion, caleb,
2. Speckless disher, Absterge Inc, Jim Antol (CEO)
3. May, Self, Disher Dubai, Disher USA, Disher Speckless,
4. Anjali (anji), AI Kermit, brian, malika (teacher)
5. -
terms for characters:
mc 1,2,3
villain
mc 1: protagonist
mc 2: deuteragonist
mc 3: tritagonist
villain: antagonist
terms for drama:
dramatic action
dramatic structure
dramatic action: movement of plot and storyline.
dramatic structure: acts (sections showing major changes in the storyline or large time jumps) and scenes (parts showing minor changes in the storyline or short time jumps in a certain section)
terms for poetry:
formal verse, free verse, blank verse
stanza
formal verse: a line of poetry with rhyme and meter
free verse: poetry that follows natural speech more closely, no meter no formal rhyme
blank verse: has meter but no formal rhyme scheme
stanza: paragraph of a poem. group of lines set tgt in a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme
6. silently and very fast
7. patterns of a murmuration, in billions of data points
8. the lifecycle of software objects
6. Neva (sister), Elefsis (AI), Ravan (brother), Cassian Uoya-Agostino (creator)
7. the Right (wayne ree), the Left (joseph hartman), Tempo (living mother), Avalanche (dead mother), Skon (studio director), starling (mc, self),
8. ana alvarado (mc), age of iridium, robyn (friend), data earth, blue gamma (software company?), derek brooks (animator), digients (virtual pets)
terms for plot:
flow of plot
exposition (prologue?): intro to characters and setting
rising action: catalyst that sets the story in motion + forces protagonist out of their comfort zone (stasis)
climax: protagonist is faced with a decision caused by the rising action which affects the rest of the story.
falling action: consequence(s) of the decision made in the climax.
resolution (denouement): resolving issues from the rising action (in the mc favour or not) + shows protagonist's character arc.
terms for drama:
the 3 unities (action, time, place)
Unity of Action: the idea that tragedy should have a single story line. (only 1 genre per play)
Unity of time: the tragedy occurs over a single day.
Unity of place: the tragedy only occurs in a single location.
terms for poems:
2 syllable ft: iambic, trochaic, spondaic
3 syllable ft: anapestic, dactylic
iambic: (U /)
trochaic: (/ U)
spondaic: (/ /)
anapestic: (U U /)
dactylic: (/ U U)
9. king lear #1
10. king leir #2
11. king leir #3
9. King lear
goneril + albany + steward oswald
regan + cornwall
cordellia (+ burgundy) + king of france
earl of kent
earl of gloucester + edgar (legit) + edmund (illiegit)
10. king leir
gonoril + cornwall
ragan + cambria
cordella (+ hibernia) + king of gallia
11. king leir
gonorilla + cornwall
regan + albania
cordeilla + gallia (aganippus)
terms for conflict:
types of conflict
external conflict: btw protagonist and outside force antagonist
- man vs man
- man vs society
- man vs nature
internal conflict: btw protagonist and self where self is the antagonist
- man vs self
kishotenketsu:
- ki --> intro
- sho --> dev of reader's relation to character
- ten --> twist (some kind of complication not necessary conflict but can be a bad situation)
- ketsu --> character reaction to complication introed
12. canterbury tales: general prologue
13. canterbury tales: wife of bath prologue
12. knight, squire, yeoman, prioress, nun, 3 priests, monk, friar, merchant, clerk, lawyer, franklin, guildmen (haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer, arras-maker), cook, sailor, physician, wife of bath, parson, plowman, miller, manciple, reeve, summoner, pardoner
13. 5 husbands (lamech, abraham, jacob, paul, janekin(clerk of oxford)), alisoun/alys (bestie)
terms for theme:
symbolism & allusion
literary devices, literary techniques, literary element
close reading
symbolism: alluding to things that the author wants the reader to think but not stating it directly.
allusion: expression designed to call smt to mind without expressing it directly.
literary devices: specific aspect of a work of lit that we can interpret or analyze. sub-cats: lit techniques, lit elements.
literary techniques: (micro) specific construction of language that an author uses to convey meaning through the use of a single word, phrase or group of words and phrases at a particular point in the text. (not always present in all text) specific points in passage.
literary element: (macro) an aspect or characteristic of the entire text. overarching characteristics.
close reading: careful consideration of literary elements that stick out to the reader / instructional strategy where a text is read multiple times for the purpose of uncovering deeper meaning.
parts of the essay
intro: give readers general sense of the essay + thesis statement
body: logical order of paras delving into the topic of the essay and answering the thesis statement + topic sentences at the start of every para and transitional sentences at the end of each para
conclusion: summary of main points where you answer the thesis statement without adding more information of the essay
13. a mumming at eltham
14. a mumming for the goldsmiths of london
15. a mumming at windsor
13. bachus (god of wine//dionysus), juno (goddess of marriage & fertility//hera), ceres (goddess of harvest//demeter), mars (god of war//ares)