Forms & Structure
A resolution is offered in this 14-line poem, typically announced by the transition in line 9
What is a sonnet?
A recurring object or item -- even sometimes a person or place -- that sheds larger meaning onto a character's conflict.
What is a symbol?
The symbol of Nora's willingness and ability to deceive her husband and others.
What are macaroons?
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end
What is a simile?
Pensively sad
Melodramatic OR Melancholic
What is melancholic?
A young naive character undergoes a change from immaturity to self-discovery
What is coming of age?
Weather, Season, Time of Day are pivotal characteristics of this element
What is setting?
Nora's chief foil who reveals Nora's need to mature and embrace herself
Who is Mrs. Linde?
An extreme exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
Having mixed or contradictory feelings
Ambivalent or Apprehensive
What is ambivalent?
These common representations take on symbolic meaning that are easily recognizable beyond one's own culture or background.
What are archetypes?
the perspective through which a story is told
What is narrative point of view?
Nora dances this specific dance form in order to distract Torvald from opening the letterbox - a symbol of the truth.
What is the tarantella?
Light vs. Dark
Movement vs. Stagnation
Fragrant vs. Musty
What are contrasts?
Cunning tricks
Aversions or Artifices
What are artifices?
Hook
Bridge
Defensible Claim
What is an introductory or thesis paragraph?
A character that stands in direct contrast to another character, usually the protagonist, to highlight the other character's flaws or strenghts
What is a character foil?
This term describes how the audience knows that Nora is hiding a secret but that Torvald does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
The contrasting of words or ideas, usually presented in a paralell structure
What is juxtaposition?
Nora and Torvald, at the end of the play, are both disillusioned by each other's true character.
Proper use of disillusioned?
What is proper?
Unlike symbols, these recurring concepts or ideas, such as money, love, or fate add depth of meaning to a conflict
What are motifs/themes?
This element of the setting of the Helmer house reflects the slow deterioration of the relationship between Nora and Torvald as the play unfolds.
What is the Christmas tree?
Unlike tone, which is a writer's attitude toward his subject, this is a reader's feeling that he or she gets from reading a particular text.
What is mood?
In The Stranger, Meursault laments his mother's death.
True OR False
What is false?