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1) Also called third-person limited point of view. A type of point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters. Most typically, limited omniscience sees through the eyes of one major or minor character. In __________________________, the author can compromise between the immediacy of first-person narration and the mobility of third person.3) The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative or drama. The ____________ may be another character, society itself, a force of nature, or eve- in modern literature-conflicting impulses within the protagonist.4) A narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events (persons, places, and things) consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas. This narrative strategy is often used to dramatize abstract ideas, historical events, religious systems, or political issues. An __________ has two levels of meaning: a literary level that tails a surface story and a symbolic level in which the abstract ideas unfold. The names of allegorical characters often hint at their symbolic roles. 6) When the narrator is cast as a participant in the events of the story, he or she is a dramatized character who says “I.” Such a narrator may be the protagonist, or may be an observer.7) He or she does not appear in the story as a character by tis capable of revealing the thoughts and motives of one or more character. 9) The time and place of a literary work. The ________ may also include the climate and even the social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants.11) The point in a drama when the crucial action, decision, or realization must be made, marking the turning point or reversal of the protagonist’s fortune. From the Greek word Krisis. “Decision.” 14) The opening portion of a narrative or drama. In the ______________, the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other background information necessary to allow the reader to understand and relate to the events that are to follow.15) The central character in a literary work. The _____________ usually initiates the main action of the story, often in conflict with the antagonist17) A generally recurring subject or idea conspicuously evident in a literary work. A short didactic work like a fable may have a single obvious _____________, but longer works can contain multiple themes. Not all subjects in a work can be considered ___________, only the central subject or subjects. 20) In plotting, the logical end or outcome of a unified plot, shortly following the climax. Also called resolution or denouement (“the untying of the knot”), as in resolving or untying the knots created by complication’s during the rising action. 24) The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work. The __________ often takes the form of a decisive confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist.26) A term coined by English novelist E.M Forster to describe a character with only one outstanding trait. __________________ are rarely the central character in a narrative and are often are often based on stock characters. Flat characters stay the same throughout a story.28) A scene relived in a character’s memory. ____________ can be related by the narrator in a summary or they can be experienced by the characters themselves29) Enjoyable anxiety created in the reader by the author’s handling of plot.33) All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work. An author’s_______ depends on his or her characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, and figurative language. Even sentences structure and punctuation can play a role in an author’s _____________35) A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense. ________ is related to allegory, but it works more complexly. In an allegory an object has a single additional significance. By contrast, a _______ usually |
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2) Refers to an _______________ who, although he or she presents the thoughts and actions of the characters, does not judge them or comment on them. 5) When an __________________ goes beyond reporting the thoughts of his or her characters to make a critical judgment or commentary, making explicit the narrator’s own thoughts or philosophies, 8) A type of point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in a story. A narrator with ____________ can also move freely form one character to another. Generally, a ______________________ narrative is written in the third person. 10) A character who, during the course of the narrative, grows or changes in some significant way.12) The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work. No single stylistic device crates _______; it is the result of the various elements an author brings to creating the work’s feeling and manner. ________may be playful, sarcastic, ironic, sad, solemn, or any other possible attitude. A writer’s______ play an important role in establishing the reader’s relationship to the characters or ideas presented in a literary work.13) A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. _____is present when a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite. There are many kinds of irony, but the two major varieties are verbal _____ (in which the discrepancy is contained in words) and situational _______(in which the discrepancy exists when something is about to happen to a character or character who expect the opposite outcome. 16) A _____________ is also capable of moving from place to place in order to describe action and report dialogue.18) Short stories tell of a character initiated into experience or maturity: one such story of initiation is William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” in which a boy finds it necessary to defy his father and suddenly to grow into manhood. Less obviously dramatic, perhaps, than “Godfather Death” such a story may be no less powerful. 19) A character who fails to understand all the implications of the story he or she tells.. The ________________ often a child or childlike adult- is used by an author trying to generate irony, sympathy, or pity by creating a gap between what the narrator knows And what the reader knows. 21) What a character in a story or drama wants. The reasons an author proves for a character’s actions. ___________ can be either explicit (in which reasons are specifically stated in a story) or implicit (in which the reason are only hinted at or partially revealed). 22) In a plot construction, the techniques of arranging events and information in such a way that later events are prepared for, or shadowed, beforehand. The author may introduce specific word, images or actions in order to suggest significant later events. The effective use of ________________ by an author may prevent a story’s outcome from seeming haphazard or contrived. 23) The introduction of a significant development in the central conflict in a drama or narrative between characters (or between characters and his or her situation). Traditionally, a ______________begins the rising action of a story’s plot.25) A narrator who-intentionally or unintentionally-relates events in a subject or distorted manner. The author usually provides some indication early on in such stories that the narrator is not to be completely trusted.27) The perspective of a character or narrator whose voice or position is rich in ironic contradictions.30) All-knowing31) A narrator who has the ability to move freely thought the consciousness of any character. The ____________ also has complete knowledge of all of the external events in a story32) The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside. Telling us what people say and how their faces look, he so she leaves us to interfere their thoughts and feelings.34) Not a specific technique, but a type of modern narration that uses various literary devices, especially interior monologue in and attempt to duplicate the subjective and associative nature of human consciousness. _______________ often focuses on imagistic perception in order to capture the preverbal level of consciousness. 36) The basic _____ that initiates a work or establishes a scene. It usually describes both a protagonist’s motivation and the forces that oppose its realization.37) A moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character’s life is greatly altered. “showing forth)38) A Latin phrase meaning “in the midst of things” that refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at on exciting or significant moment) before explaining the context or preceding actions.39) A common or stereotypical character that occurs frequently in literature. Examples of _______________ are the mad scientist, the batter-scarred veteran, or the strong-but silent cowboy.40) The particular arrangement of actions, events, and situations that unfold in a narrative. A ______ is not merely the general story of a narrative but the author’s artistic pattern made from the parts of the narrative, including the exposition, complications, climax, and denouement. |
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