Definitions
Human expression meant to be considered and interpreted by audiences in relation to a deeper meaning
What is literature?
The narrator or narrative style.
What is the device or character providing point of view for the reader?
To evaluate a work in light of one's own context.
What is the responsibility of a reader?
The main events in a story
What is the plot?
The author of "The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A description of the underlying principles, one might say the tools, by which we attempt to understand literature.
What are literary theories?
The three types of narration
1st, 2nd and 3rd person
An implicit or explicit prejudice for or against something
What is bias?
The location in which the events of the story take place.
What is the setting?
The narrative style that helps an audience identify with the main character most strongly
What is first person narration?
This states that literature should be viewed as a product of the culture in which it was produced, and readers interpret literature in the context of their own cultures.
What is New Historicism?
Type of narrative style is featured here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
What is first person narration?
What is context?
The effect on the reader created by authorial choice in a work.
What is the mood?
The type of narration when the audience can only know what a single character experiences
What is limited perspective?
The end notes.
What is "Wikipedia's Redemption?"
The narrative style in which the reader is addressed as "you" or "your" and is the object of the narrator's attention.
What is 2nd person narration?
The literary theory that states a work's meaning is dependent on the interpretation of the reader.
What is reader-response theory?
The author's feelings determined by word choice, sentence structure, dialogue, mood etc.
What is the tone of a work?
The relevant information surrounding a text needed to understand it fully
What is context?
Who is the author and what major life events did that person experience?
What was the time period and culture the author lived in?
What major events of the time (world wars, disasters, intellectual movements) occurred during the time the author lived and wrote?
Is the time period of the book the same or different?
What is the time period and culture YOU live in? What is significant about that?
What are context questions?
The most reliable style of narration for authorial intent.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
The four steps in determining bias
What are:
Determine the author and date (or publisher) if possible
Evaluate the contextual information concerning the author, publisher or other relevant information to establish potential bias
Determine the genre of the writing
Look at samples from the text to confirm bias?
When a character refers intentionally and directly refers to the audience as a device
What is 'breaking the fourth wall'?
The narrative style in Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"
What is 2nd person?