Devices & Techniques
This technique occurs when readers know from the beginning of Fun Home that Bruce Bechdel dies, but the narrative gradually reveals how and why.
What is foreshadowing?
The war poet who died one week before the Armistice ending World War I.
Who is Wilfred Owen?
This should always be discussed in a Paper 1 response.
What is authorial choice (technique)?
"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks."
What is "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
The only text on your syllabus that includes gutters.
What is Fun Home?
In Owen's poetry, describing soldiers: "like old beggars under sacks" relies on this literary device.
What is a simile?
This character in Fun Home is obsessed with restoring the family's Victorian house and controlling appearances.
Who is Bruce Bechdel? / Who is Alison´s father?
The literary term for the perspective from which a story is told.
What is narrative voice? (or narrative perspective)
"...it´s a loose collection of websites, blogs and forums focused on men's issues."
What is "Inside the Manosphere"?
The non-literary work that uses documentary conventions to investigate online communities and beliefs.
What is "Inside the Manosphere"?
Adichie frequently uses this narrative perspective to limit readers to a character's experiences while still maintaining a degree of distance.
What is third-person limited narration?
In "Cell One," this family member's arrest forces the narrator to reconsider her assumptions about justice and morality.
Who is Nnamabia?
This term describes the larger idea or issue that emerges from a text, beyond its plot.
What is a theme?
"I was Spartan to the point of self-destruction."
What is Fun Home (Alison)?
The non-literary BOW that challenges the traditional definition of greatness through multimodal techniques of presenting ordinary athletes rather than elite professionals.
What is NIKE´s campaign "Find Your Greatness"?
The frequent use of this technique in "Crash" helps create a sense of emotional intimacy in the audience.
What are close-up shots.
The object that symbolizes both connection and emotional distance in the title story "The Thing Around Your Neck."
What is the thing around Akunna's neck?
A Paper 2 essay that discusses one text completely before mentioning the second usually lacks this.
What is comparison?
"Their faces were all masks."
What is "Mental Cases"?
A technique that Owen frequently employs by referring to sacrifice, heaven, hell, and biblical figures in order to challenge traditional ideas about war.
What is religious imagery?
The device employed to create meaning by using two contrasting ideas, images, characters, or perspectives are placed side by side.
What is juxtaposition?
This recurring tension (coflict) appears in many of Adichie's stories, particularly in "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "The Arrangers of Marriage."
What is the conflict between personal identity and cultural expectations?
The four assessed components that make up a student's final grade in IB English A: Language and Literature HL.
What are Paper 1, Paper 2, the Individual Oral, and the HL Essay?
"In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass."
What is "Crash"?
No Wahala
What is "no problem" in Nigerian?