Memorable Movements
This movement celebrated emotion, individualism, and the beauty of nature over reason and order.
What is Romanticism?
This is the surname of the titular character who is preparing for her party.
What is Dalloway?
"Boots on the ground" exemplifies how this literary element creates meaning
What is synecdoche?
In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five, there is a phrase that marks every death in the book: “So it goes.” The phrase is unavoidable, much like death itself, and it draws the reader’s attention to the book’s larger theme of inevitability.
The phrase “so it goes” is an example of this element.
What is motif?
Alteration of time sequences, taking characters back to the beginning of the tale, for instance
What is a flashback?
Writers in this 19th century movement depicted life in a straightforward, objective way without idealization.
What is Realism?
Clarissa reflects on her choice to marry Richard instead of this former suitor and old friend.
Who is Peter Walsh?
The beautiful and the grotesque. Bigotry and tolerance. Dark, light. Despair, hope. These are examples of...
What is a juxtaposition?
A narrative technique that opens the story in the middle of the plot
What is in media res?
A single action, scene, event, setting, or any element of significance at the beginning and end of a work.
What is a framing device?
This early 20th century African American cultural movement featured jazz poetry and novels exploring Black life and racism.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Septimus is a veteran suffering from what psychological condition resulting from his war experiences?
What is PTSD or shell shock?
A type of repetition that has a mnemonic quality. It can sound playful and musical. For this reason, it creates emphasis and helps you remember things.
What is alliteration?
A narrative technique that involves hinting at events that will occur later in the story. This technique is often used to create suspense
What is foreshadowing?
Virtue ultimately rewarded, or vice punished, by an ironic twist of fate related to the character's own conduct
What is poetic justice?
Can also accept greek tragedy, though notice the question also mentioned a reward.
Blending realistic narrative with surreal, dreamlike elements, this style is seen in works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
What is Magical Realism?
This is the first name of Clarissa's daughter who arrives to help with the party preparations.
Who is Elizabeth?
The main difference between these two terms is that one uses contradictory words whereas the other uses contradictory ideas.
What is the difference between an oxymoron and a paradox?
A narrative technique used to divert attention away from an item of significance. For example, in mystery fiction, an innocent party may be purposefully cast as highly suspicious through emphasis or descriptive techniques to divert attention from the true guilty party.
What is a Red Herring?
The expression, by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions, of truths or generalizations about human conduct or experience
What is an allegory?
Questioning cultural narratives and rejecting boundaries between genres and forms were core to this late 20th century movement.
What is Postmodernism
At the end, the news of this character's suicide is revealed, representing the trauma of the post-war era.
Who is Septimus Smith?
The green light in The Great Gatsby is an example of this literary element
What is symbolism?
The narrator of the story is not sincere, or introduces a bias in their narration and possibly misleads the reader, hiding or minimizing events, characters, or motivations.
What is an unreliable narrator?
Describes both deliberately preventing the audience from identifying with characters in order to let them be coolly scrutinized and allowing them to live vicariously through the character's journey, evoking empathy and a deep emotional connection.
Narrative Distance