Terms
Coming of Age
Character reaching a transition or turning point in life.
Flashback
refer to events pror to the play to make sense of things.
Stage vs. Screen
when we watch something like a movie version of the play that has sir anthony hopkins, when you see a movie version there wil be differences.
Epistolary
Epistolary comes from a Greek word, epistolē, which means “letter.” Epistolary is a literary genre pertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals, and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters.
Dialect
dialect is (linguistics) a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
Symbolism
Objects seasons time of year that will have deeper meaning.
Socio Economic Commentary
Money, what does a piece of lit suggest or imply about money power weath givien the setting.
Biographical Criticism
analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their works of literature.
Linear
the order in which events are portrayed corresponds to the order in which they occur.
Point of View
Who perspective from the stoy that is being told from. In A&P the main character is telling the story or speaker can tell the stroy (someone who is not in the story but kind of like watching).
Exposition
Break the flow of linear structure to stop and explain something.
Stage Directions
When reading a play there will be brief notes that will talk about one performer how they eist or enter the stage or stomps away furiously. This is a plan for a perfmoance.
Coming of Age
focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood
Non-Linear
where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured
Structure
Structure means 'composed of parts' or 'the organization of something,' when referring to literature.
Internal Dioaglouge
Internal diouge on stage is when you are talking about aside, other people on stage ethier freeze or ignore one character and they speak to the audience to explain hoe they feel internally. Or put them in darkness.
Script
What yu are reading is the plan for the prefmrance who says what and who does what. Tape on stage to not go out of bounds.
Symbolism
Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, maprks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning. EX: DOVE WOULD REPRESENT PEACE.
Historical Context
(what is going around during this time in history):THE WHERE AND WHEN
EX: Yellow Wallpaper: Thought if it was set in todays time we might think it is different because womens roles were different from now an before but understanding how society was back then helios understand the story better.
Style
is the way in which an author writes and/or tells a story. It’s what sets one author apart from another and creates the “voice” that audiences hear when they read.
Foreshadowing
hints of what will come later.
Director’s decision
Creative lience. When we watch various prediction we will notice there is uttle and no so subtle desions of who they cast, mabey lines or scnes they omitted or changning the lines.
Socio-Economics
Socioeconomic status is the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation. WE CAN THINK OF IT IN THE LESSON.
Diction
clarity of word choice, and presentation of said words.
Motif
any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. Through its repetition, a motif can help produce other narrative (or literary) aspects such as (convaying) a theme or mood.