Allusions
Guess the allusion:What love story does Taylor Swift allude to in her famous song, Love Story.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Biblical allusions are _________ and archetypal. They never grow old.
Timeless.
Interpretation, Valid.
What type of character is Jennifer in the movie Jennifer's body? A demon possesses Jennifer, the popular girl, and she feasts on the flesh of high school boys who never stood a chance.
Nice to eat with you, Vampires.
What are the five elements of a quest?
1.
A quester
A place to go
A stated reason to go there
Challenges & trials en route
A real reason to go there
The novel The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe contains heavy allusions to what?
The Bible
He describes this as a body of story that matters.
Myth.
Foster says that Irony_______________.
Irony trumps everything.
Rapunzel in the movie tangled is still able to heal Eugene even after having her magic hair get cut off.
She's a christ figure too.
What is the point of the dinner scene?
It's communion. We learn about the plot and the characters.
Guess the allusion: In the show, Alice in Borderland, a gamer finds himself in an "emptied-out" version of Tokyo in which him and his friends need to compete in dangerous games in order to survive.
Children stories, Alice in Wonderland.
He describes characters as...
Not real.
The interaction between poems or stories is ___________.
Intertextuality.
Dumbo, a young elephant born with comically large ears.
What are the two types of violence?
Narrative and authorial.
Guess the type of allusion: Wonder Woman is a story about a super-heroine who fights to end all wars.
Greek Mythology.
When it comes to geography, writers will often send their characters....
South.
Intersect, and echo
In the movie Birdbox, the characters have to wear blindfolds in order to not be murdered by the killer alien things.
He's blind for a reason.
What does it mean when a character drowns or is submerged in water.
Baptism/rebirth.
Guess the type of allusion: Beloved is a story that follows a former slave, Sethe, and her life as a freed, but haunted woman.
Historical
According to Foster, the author wants to achieve what by making the character blind?
To emphasize other levels or insight or blindness.
Foster says that seasonal metaphors are _____________ into our brains.
Hard wired.
In Spiderman, Uncle Ben is killed by a burglar.
According the Foster, why does Irony work?
“Irony works because the audience understands something that eludes one or more of the characters”