Unit 1
the meaningful structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction, how the events relate to one another and how they are rendered and organized in the text so as to achieve their particular effects
What is Plot?
The imagined universe (along with its set of norms and rules) represented in a work of fiction.
What is Story-World?
Whenever a synopsis of a tale is given. Identification of the major actions and placement of these actions in a chronological order of events. Style and POV are neutral. Main focus is what is presented v.s. how something is presented.
What is Story?
Person telling the story
What is Narrator?
short prose narrative, often an entertaining account of some aspect of a culture written by someone within that culture for readers outside of it.(Unit 1)
What is Literary Sketch?
Type of text where the main focus of the text is to reveal the character of an individual
What is Story of Character?
The represented time and place within which the action of a narrative or theater-piece is staged. The _____ of a narrative of dramatic text is the general locale and the historical time in which its action occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place
What is Setting?
complex characters who develop throughout a story, come closest to human beings
What is Round Character?
Narrator that takes part in the story
What is Intradiegetic Narrator?
the appearance of being true or real; property of realist fiction(Unit 2)
What is Verisimilitude?
A familiar, recycled character presenting an oversimplified and damaging representation of an identity-group of people defined by gender, social class, nationality, religious groups, occupation, or such other factor.
What is Stereotype?
a subgenre that emerged in the 18th century. It focuses on the decay of old institutions; they may be set in the past and frequently picture the aristocracy, the Church, and even family as sources of entrapment, corruption, and threatening power.
characters who mirror one another; symbolic counterpart to a character
What is Double?
Limitation of some sort on the knowledge of narrator. Can be placed on themselves or a result of facets in the story. (If the narrator is within the story)
What is Filter?
grossly distorted representations, used generally for comic, satiric, or inflammatory purposes (to get people upset)(Unit 3)
What is Caricature?
A short story from 12,000 to 15,000 words, also known as the long short story
What is Novella?
imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a work for the purposes of ridiculing it
What is Parody?
sort of ghostly double, haunting a character by representing aspects of his interior self that he has repressed, or refused to acknowledge and integrate
What is Doppelgänger or shadow self?
The story in 3rd person, with a limited viewpoint to what can be seen and heard from a single standpoint in the story.
What is External Focalization or External Filter?
To write a story so as to influence the reader's thinking. An inserted opinion from the narrator or bias. Point of view that a narrator lends to the story.(Unit 4)
What is Slant?
A short composition showing considerable skill, especially such a composition designed with little or no plot or larger narrative structure; often descriptive or evocative in nature
What is Vignette?
strangely unusual things or artistic representations, particularly those involving bizarre or unnatural combinations of characteristics or images
What is Grotesque?
Convention of a specific literary or cinematic from; kinds of characters that recur within a given genre.
What is Stock Character?
musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note.
What is Recitatif?
The deepest person in the class...(all units)
Who is James?