Narrative elements
relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension, leading to the story's climax
What is rising action?
Making a comparison using like or as
What is simile?
Predetermined destiny
What is fate?
The plot is interrupted so the narrator can reveal elements of the past.
What is flashback?
The process by which the author reveals the personality of characters
What is characterization?
Time and place of the story, including surroundings, weather and social status of characters
What is setting?
an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning
What is symbolism?
“These violent delights have violent ends,”
What is love and violence?
"That I must love a loathed enemy"
What is antithesis?
The author shows things that reveal the personality of the character
What is indirect characterization?
all-knowing narrator that reveals thoughts/feelings of all characters.
What is omniscient narrator?
So Athena vowed and under her feet she fastened the supple sandals, ever-glowing gold, that wing her over the waves and boundless earth with the rush of gusting winds.
What is imagery?
As Romeo and Juliet fall deeper and deeper in love, they come up against their friends, their families, and the political and religious authorities which govern the city of Verona.
What is individual vs. society?
two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts
What is juxtaposition?
The patient boy and the quiet girl were both at the game
What is direct characterization?
has more dimensions to their personalities---they are complex, just a real people are.
What is a round character?
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
What is metaphor?
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet"
What is family and duty?
"For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss"
What is pun?
STEAL
What is speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, looks?
an impersonal and objective narrator tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.
What is objective point of view?
So our ancestors said they would plant the signs, to show our marriage in now rotting... First, he has drawn a black spot on Tyan-yu’s back, and this spot will grow and eat away Tyan-yu’s flesh just as it ate away our ancestor’s face before he died"
What is symbolism?
"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies"
What is fate?
"Apart from anything else, the book thief wanted desperately to go back to the basement, to write, or to read through her story one last time. In hindsight, I see it so obviously on her face. She was dying for it - the safety of it - but she could not move. Also, the basement didn’t even exist anymore. It was part of the mangled landscape"
What is foreshadowing?
""I was clutching my mouth with one hand and my eyes with another. My body was writhing as if I were seized by a terrible pain. I was quite convincing, because Huang Taitai drew back and grew small like a scared animal"
What is indirect characterization?