Character Types
Who is the protagonist in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
The wife (Jane)
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Define symbol in literature.
A person, place, or thing that represents something else
The point of highest conflict in a story
The climax
Name the story AND author: "Perhaps its removal may cause cureless deformity; or it may be the stain goes as deep as life itself."
"The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The shape of Georgiana's birthmark in "The Birthmark"
a hand
In "20/20" who is a dynamic character?
Bill
A character that represents an idea or aspect of society
Symbolic Character
What are the two types of setting? Define each.
Spatial: where the story takes place
Temporal: time period the story takes place in
Name the story AND author: "The nuns they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society."
"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell
Define theme.
Central idea of the work (an opinion not a subject)
Give an example of a static character from a short story we have read.
John, Jennie, Ruthie, Mirabella, The Monster, The son, Maggie, etc.
What does the monster symbolize?
The struggle of finding out who you are and where you belong (answers may vary)
The climax in "The Shroud"
The mom stops crying
Name the story AND author: "I didn't kick her; I didn't join in with the gar girls and kick that lady, but I sure did want to."
"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison
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What is an example of a story we read that is told in 1st person narrative?
"The Yellow Wallpaper," "Recitatif," or "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
A character with very few characteristics and is relatively simple.
Flat character
What does the wallpaper symbolize in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
The oppression/control of women and/or Jane's sanity
What are the two types of conflict? Define each.
Internal: conflict within oneself mentally
External: conflict outside of oneself (nature, man, society, etc.)
Name the story AND author: "The faint figure behind seems to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out."
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In "Recitatif" who is salt and who is pepper? Explain
We don't know. Morrison uses class codes, not race codes.
A character with a complex or conflicting personality.
Round character
What does the thing in the forest symbolize?
The war, adulthood
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The first problem that occurs in a story is called....
Inciting incident
Name the story AND author: "Then they stood up, still silent, and stared together, hand in hand, at the trail of obliteration and destruction, which wound out of the forest and into it again."
"The Thing in the Forest" by A.S. Byatt
The word the narrator frequently uses to describe the movement of the woman in the wallpaper.
Creep/Creeping