Once upon a time...
(narrations def)
(narrations def)
I'm the one that tells the story...
Narrator
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
If this story is to be something resembling my book of deeds, we must begin at the beginning. At the heart of who I truly am. To do this, you must remember that before I was anything else, I was one of the Edema Ruh.
First Person
In poetry... a single row of words
Line
Irony...what is it? Can you give an example?
Occurs when there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
Identify the stanza length that appears in We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Couplet, stanzas with 2 lines
Another name for a story
Narration
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
You're still trying to decide who to be. The self you’ve been lately doesn’t make sense anymore; that woman died with Uche. She’s not useful, unobtrusive as she is, quiet as she is, ordinary as she is. Not when such extraordinary things have happened.
Second Person
In poetry... a bunch of lines together
Stanza
Tone...what is it?
Refers to the writer’s attitude or feelings conveyed in the poem
Identify the rhyme in the fragment below of One Art by Ellizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
master-disaster, intent-spent, fluster-master
How the story is told...
Narrative Style
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.
And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will be could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual, although even he never knew the whole of it.
The tale started, as many tales have started, in Wall.
Third Person, Omnsicient
Iambic, trochaic, and anapestic are...
Types of meter
What literary device is used in Preludes by T.S. Eliot?
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
Imagery
What is the subject of the next exceprt from a poem by Marianne Moore? And what literary device is it using?
I too, dislike it: there are things that are
important beyond all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect
contempt for it, one discovers that
there is in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important
The subject is Poetry, the divece can be either Irony or Imagery
The way of storytelling...
Narrative
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
What was the good of magicking himself out of his room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it? Yet life at Privet Drive had reached an all-time low. Now that the Dursleys knew they weren't going to wake up as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon. Dobby might have saved Harry from horrible happenings at Hogwarts, but the way things were going, he'd probably starve to death anyway.
Third Person, Subjective
End-stopped and enjambment... what are we?
Line breaks
Birches by Robert Frost
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
Alliteration or repetition? Why?
Alliteration, because the "b" sound is repreated throughout the four lines
What type of line breaks can you identify in this fragment from Endymion by John Keats?
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Endstopped and enjambment
On the third-person narrative...
I'm the all-knowing; the one conveys thoughts and feelings; and the neutral one...
Omniscient
Subjective
Objective
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 25th. But in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.
Third Person, Objective
In poetry... difference between rhyme and rhytmn
Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, is the measured flow of words, determined by the syllables
Rhyme is the correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, creates a musical effect, helps to unify a poem
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."
Symbolism or metaphor?
Why?
Symbolism, because it uses the stage as an object that represents life
What's the meter in the next fragment from John Milton's Paradise Lost? And how many syllables are there in one line?
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Iamb, one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
5 metric feet with 10 syllables each