True or False
Answer True or False:
The situation of a work reflects on what is happening at the time we experience it.
A monologue is an extended speech by one character while other characters are on stage, but this is an extended speech from a character to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
This type of narrator is "all-knowing", and can see what all of the characters are doing and thinking
What is third-person omniscient?
We might use the term plot to refer to both the story and this.
What is the way the story develops through a specific series of events?
This is a work's foundation. In other words, this is what it is about.
What is its Subject?
Answer True or False:
A literary analysis does not need to provide information about the author or title of the work you are analyzing.
What is False?
Adding this information is necessary to ensure that readers understand what you are discussing.
In Drama, non-human characters often serve to illustrate this.
What is a human quality?
Alex, in A Clockwork Orange, Katniss in The Hunger Games, and Offred in The Handmaid's Tale may not tell the reader everything as it happened, making each character serve as this sort of narrator.
What is Unreliable?
We can use these to outline a plot.
What are plot diagrams?
Most modern poems do not do this often.
What is rhyme?
Answer True or False:
There are three types of setting.
What is False?
There are TWO types of setting, Spatial and Temporal.
Laertes and Fortinbras both serve this role in relation to Prince Hamlet.
What is Foil?
This can affect a story's narration.
What is its Setting?
The conclusion of the story's plot is called either its denouement, or this.
What is its Resolution?
The narrator of a poem is called its Speaker, but the intended listener is called this.
What is the Auditor?
Answer True or False:
Ezra Pound was a leader of the Imagist movement.
What is True?
The role of the Chorus comes from this type of theatre.
What is Greek?
Third Person narrators are usually considered more reliable than these narrators.
What are First Person narrators?
This takes the reader forward in time.
What is a Flashforward?
These poems make use of materials that already exist.
What are Found Poems?
Answer True or False:
We can definitely prove that Shakespeare died on his birthday.
What is False?
We do not have records of Shakespeare's birth, but his baptism. It is possible to guess his birthday, due to typical church customs of the day, but we cannot prove his date of birth because he was not from a well known family. By the time he died, he was famous enough that a historical record of his death was created.
In the Italian Comedia dell'arte, we see many examples of this type of character.
What is Stock?
Stream of Consciousness and this type of monologue let us see the thought processes of a character.
What is Interior Monologue?
This is the moment of a plot when tension is at its highest peak.
What is the Climax?
This type of poem has two popular forms, English and Italian or Petrarchan.
What is a Sonnet?