Formal Elements 1
The telling of a story
What is narration?
The narrator is a character in the story, referring to themselves as "I"
What is first-person narration?
The enjoyment of reading, of fiction.
What is pleasure?
Who is Bob?
The narration style used in Joyce's "Araby"
What is first-person?
The story is addressed to a "you"
What is second-person narration?
An aspect of fiction that drives the plot forward, creates tension within and between characters.
What is conflict?
How fiction can make us feel connected to other people, other places, other times. (Two words) HINT: they start with the same letter.
What is recognition and reflection?
The order of events in a fictional narrative which creates structure, pattern, and sometimes suspense.
What is chronology?
What a writer must do to make a character come alive at bare minimum, to find a common humanity.
What is respect?
An "instrument of pressure" in fiction
What is narrative time?
A way to establish the angle and distance from which a story is told.
What is narration?
How fiction can make us question, leaving things open-ended or make us crave more. The literary effect, not the genre.
What is mystery?
The big idea questions that haunt you after a story.
What are chronic questions?
The literary movement that James Joyce was a part of.
What is modernism?
The umbrella term for genres outside of realism (i.e fantasy, sci-fi, magical realism, fabulism)
What is speculative fiction?
Making the normal weird.
What is defamiliarization?
Fiction as possibility space.
What is freedom?
Life measured by values
What is emotional time?
A reason why fiction matters discussed in Terrell's lecture.
What is empathy?
The two types of narration used in Dead in Long Beach, California.
What are collective first-person and third-person?
Another term for self-conscious fiction
What is metafiction?
The reason fiction matters that connects to Lia Purpura's essay
What is cultivating attention?
What is a first-person plural point of view?
The term that could be used to describe Saunder's speech patterns/authorial voice