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When a character goes on a journey and comes back changed, Foster would call it this...
What is a Quest or Hero's Journey?
This is the most Widely read and alluded to text in Western Literature
What is The Bible?
This season is most often used to symbolize new beginnings, growth, or emotional rebirth.
What is Spring?
If your essay/paper only summarizes without taking a position it is missing this crucial component:
What is an argument or claim?
This recurring image in Sticks becomes meaningful to the narrator only after his father's death. It symbolizes all the things left unsaid.
A character nearly drowns, but nothing changes. Foster would say this moment is a failed...
The name we use for patterns and references in literature
What is allusions?
Every claim (thesis) needs these three things:
What are the Author's name, the title of the work, and a defensible argument/claim?
In Girl the mother's voice delivers instructions which reinforce...
What is gender roles, generational control, societal expectations, or patriarchy?
This term describes how texts "talk" to each other, like when The Lion King echoes Hamlet, or when a modern poem borrows imagery from The Bible.
What is Intertextuality?
If a symbol represents only one thing, it is not a symbol but a...
What is a metaphor?
You, me, my, and I have this in common..
What are personal pronouns, which should not be used in academic writing?
This literary technique is used by Kafka when he replaces the hunger artist with the panther in order to emphasize the qualities of each.
Foster says meals symbolize this unless something goes wrong
What is communion?
When a character resembles a mythological or fairy tale character, like Cinderella, but the story twists the ending, the author is employing this literary technique.
The real, symbolic reason for a quest is always...
What is Self-Discovery?
Never drop a quote in your writing without first offering this, otherwise it feels as if it is dropped from space.
What is context, introducing the speaker or situation?
Bradbury's concerns about humanity in "The Pedestrian" are echoed by the late November setting-- symbolically representing...
What is the death of humanity, approaching death, civilization is dying; November -> the verge of winter; winter -> death
When a character won't eat with others, it's rarely about food, it usually signals this.
What is disconnection / alienation/ isolation from society/ refusal of communion?
This type of figure represents universal meaning, while its "cheap knockoff" reduces people to cliches. Name each.
What is Archetype vs Stereotype?
A journey south or through a forest, cave, or tunnel is often symbolic of this type of experience
What is a journey into one's self, subconscious, transformation?
These are three qualities of academic writing (only 3 needed)
What is formal, objective, concise, clear, specific/precise, defensible/arguable, without personal pronouns?
Each narrator in "Sticks" "Invisible Fish," and "Girl" reveals their story in a different and unique way; through restraint, memory, or command. This narrative choice shapes how we understand the character's internal lives, a technique known as..
What is Narrative Perspective/Point of View/Complex Point of View