Unit 1
What are the three important narrative elements?
“All but mariners / Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel”
What is a vivid use of imagery?
The sound of my professor’s deep, sonorous voice eventually made me doze off in class.
What is the correct way to use the word sonorous in a sentence?
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
What is a written piece that has a good example of anaphora?
In reality, I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. I would sigh a moment, stretch myself and turn, and opening my eyes, be bewildered at that glittering sun, that hard, clean sky, so different from the soft moonlight of my dream. The day would lie before us both, long no doubt, and uneventful, but fraught with a certain stillness, a dear tranquillity we had not known before. We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer. Manderley was no more.
What is a good example of using framing in a story?
What techniques can authors use to vary pacing in their stories?
What are narrative elements?
“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.”
What is an example of ambiguity in “Ozymandias”?
A literary device in which an author uses a harsher form of irony to express disapproval of someone or something, often by mockingly stating the opposite of what is actually meant.
What is sarcasm?
What can the use of pacing in a story do?
“Art thou that Beowulf, Breca’s rival,
who emulous swam on the open sea,
when for pride the pair of you proved the floods,
and wantonly dared in waters deep
to risk your lives?”
Which lines in Beowolf support the first central idea?
What are the subjects in the story Utopia?
Direct and indirect.
What are the two types of characterization?
Something that is implicit is understood despite not being clearly stated, while something that is explicit is clearly stated.
What is the difference between implicit and explicit?
What questions do authors ask themselves about how they will structure their narratives?
The speaker is deeply in love and feels as though his lover’s potential absence will cause him pain and suffering.
What is the the implicit meaning of the following stanza: Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart?
What reasons do authors have to use figurative language in their stories?
The use of literary techniques, such as humor or irony, to expose the foolishness of others.
What is satire?
What can the words and phrases that an author chooses and can become part of the characters’ language in the story do?
“Good heavens!” said Ogilvy. “There’s a man in it—men in it! Half roasted to death! Trying to escape!”
What is a good example of speeding up the pacing of a story?
What are the four important literary devices that are used in writing and speaking.
The battle between good and evil
The journey
The initiation
The baptism
Water, fire, tree of life, and the cross
What are common situational archetypes?
A funny character or event, a humorously ironic tone, or a comic setting, for example, can all be used to convey an author’s true perspective.
What is using humor to reveal the author's perspective?
What are the options for presenting perspective?
Flashback
What is an element of narrative text structure that provides information about events that have occurred earlier?