the basics
The term for "the representation of an event or sequence of events."
What is narrative?
Term for a kind of double voice in which the narrator uses the character's language or inflection.
What is free indirect discourse/style?
Term for the interactions between characters.
What is a character network?
Name of plantation in Beloved and its state.
Sweet Home, Kentucky
Term for the multiplicity of voices in a narrative.
What is heteroglossia?
Name TWO basic elements of narrative.
What is characters, space, time, narrator?
Term for a passage of uninterrupted thought, which is represented as if it were direct speech.
What is interior monologue?
Full name of the WWI veteran in Mrs Dalloway.
Who is Septimus Warren Smith?
Name of Mrs. Dalloway's neighborhood in London.
Westminster
Term for the use of another literary text within a text...often an allusion to another text.
What is intertextuality?
Terms from Russian formalism that distinguish plot (order of events) from story (the actual chronology of events).
What is sjuzet and fabula?
Term for the narrator’s discourse ABOUT the character’s consciousness.
What is psycho-narration?
Term for a static character that can be described in a single idea or phrase.
What is a flat character?
Name of the town where the "Fun Home" is located.
Beech Creek
Term for when a narrator paraphrases a character's dialogue or when those words aren't represented in quotes.
What is indirect speech?
Narrative Discourse refers to the WAY a story is told. Name ONE of the "Big Three" ways discourse can alter a story.
What is order, duration, or perspective?
What is first person retrospective narration?
Narrator of Frankenstein's outermost frame narrative.
Who is Captain Robert Walton?
Name the city where Justine's trial takes place in Frankenstein.
Geneva
Term for the direct representation of additional texts within a narrative (like newspaper clippings, journal entries, etc.)
What is an embedded text?
History, science, politics, nationalism, humanism can all reach us through narratives. Name the term that describes these kinds of narratives.
What are "Grand Narratives"?
The following is an example of what kind of narrative voice?
What a lark! What a plunge!
What is free indirect discourse/style?
Name the 5 Sweet Home men.
Who is Paul A, Paul F, Paul D, Sixo, and Halle?
Very first city mentioned in Frankenstein.
St. Petersburg
The term for the tone or style of voice in a narrative...or the way a text creates the effect of a voice.
What is glossality?