Point of View
This point of view is known as being more intimate and immediate. It uses the I or We pronoun.
What is first person point of view?
Who is Sasha?
Setting can simply establish mood, but it can also be _________ , like in Orlando, where the flood represents the idea of great turbulence and change.
What is symbolic?
The playwright, Tom Stoppard recently died. He wrote this play named after two bumbling characters from Hamlet.
What is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
This type of character is using the center of agency and action in a story.
This type of point of view is rarely used as it feels accusatory.
What is 2nd person point of view?
This character is reputed to be a gambler, drinker, and prostitute-frequenter so his dad sends a servant to spy on him.
Who is Laertes?
What is England?
Name this movie, in theaters now about the playwright, Shakespeare. It imagines his relationship with his wife and the loss of his son, who inspired the play, Hamlet.
What is Hamnet?
This type of character is a minor character, whose role is to enhance or reveal strengths or flaws in a main character.
What is a foil character?
This variation of third person point of view only shows the thoughts of a few characters.
What is third person limited?
This character may be the most tragic character ever written; her fate was sealed by the controlling men in her life. They drove her crazy.
One could argue that _____________ is a setting, and a character, and a symbol in the novel, Orlando. It certainly serves all three roles as a representation of Orlando's writing and life endeavors.
What is the Oak Tree?
This important element of a play, especially for the chorus in Greek tragedies, requires several players to speak at move at the same time.
What is unison?
This type of character is absent from a literary text, but their absence has a major influence or impact on the other characters.
What is an invisible character?
This variation on third person feels like an interruption to the narration, where the narrator elaborates on a philosophical or moral topic.
What is intrusive narration?
This character claims to be a great writer, but is really just an unfair critic looking for a handout from Orlando.
Who is Nick Greene?
This sentence type is used to speed up plot.
This essential element of any argument or thesis requires showing two opposing forces.
What is tension or contrast?
This important part of preparing for the performance of a scene involves writing little notes about movement, staging, and expression.
What is a cue script?
This variation of narration also feels like an opportunity for the narrator to comment on the writing process.
What is metafictional narration?
This character is an actual author, a rather famous satirist, who wrote the Rape of the Lock. He shows up in Orlando, but sadly acts rather snobbish and thinks he's better than everyone else.
Who is Alexander Pope?
An often missed detail in John Edgar Wideman's short story, "Weight" is at the end when he has to put his hand in the brass handle. This detail brings another layer to the weight he carries, which is_________.
What is proxemics?
There are 7 types of imagery. Name them