basics
Story
Name two genres we might use to describe Frankenstein.
Gothic, emergent Science Fiction, Horror
Term for the all knowing narrator who can tell us about a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings.
Omniscient (third-person omniscient)
Animal that Mrs Dalloway is repeatedly compared to
Bird
Name three of the countries featured as settings in Frankenstein.
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, England, Ireland, Russia, France
The way events of a narrative are represented.
Discourse
Term for the information surrounding a text (like the title, testimonials, author introduction).
Paratext
Style of narration that directly addresses an audience or a "you."
Second person narration
Characters killed by the creature's hands in Frankenstein (three)
William Frankenstein, Henry Clerval, Elizabeth Lavenza
What art form does Alison Bechdel's mother participate in?
acting
If you have two stories that are recognizably "little red riding hood" stories what has remained constant....the fabula or sjuzhet?
Fabula
Particular genre of Fun Home.
Graphic memoir. (or tragicomic)
What kind of narrator do we get in Frankenstein?
first person
Author who Bruce Bechdel is reading in his army barracks
Fitzgerald
What London landmark is a central figure in Mrs Dalloway?
Big Ben
Formalist term for a fundamental component of a tale.
Function
Is genre descriptive, prescriptive, or both?
Both!
What kind of narrator do we get in the Sherlock Holmes stories?
first person, character narrator
Mrs Dalloway is going to buy WHAT when the novel opens?
flowers
Title of essay by Virginia Woolf that is essentially her manifesto on literary modernism.
"Modern Fiction"
Term for things that exist in the story world.
existents
Frow's defines genre according to our "horizon of ___." Horizon of what?
Expectations
Term for the narrator's degree of involvement in the story she tells.
Distance
What does Sixo yell before he dies?
Seven-O!
What kind of food is Beloved absolutely obsessed with?
SWEETS--anything with lots of sugar