Analysing fiction: Themes

Question 1

What are common examples of themes?

Answer 1

Power.
Love.
Money.
Death.
Appearance + reality.
Heroism.
Technology in society.
Friendship.

Question 2

What are examples of language features?

Answer 2

Metaphor.
Simile.
Assonance.
Alliteration.
Personification.
Emotive language.
Sibilance.
Verb.
Adverb.
Noun.
Adjective.
Connotations.

Question 3

What is characterisation?

Answer 3

What characters like.
What characters say.
What characters do.
How characters described.
How seen by other characters.

Question 4

What is narrative voice?

Answer 4

First person: character within story telling story.
Second person: Not commonly used by writers, personal pronouns you + your used throughout.
Third person: story told by voice of someone not character in story. Main personal pronouns used= he, she, they.
Third person omniscient: story told by voice that shows know more than characters in story- narrator all knowing- main personal pronouns used= she, he, they.

Question 5

What could people think of about narrative voice?

Answer 5

1) How does reader feel about narrator?
2) Does reader trust narrator?
3) Is voice of narrator author or someone else?
4) How does narrator choose to show fictional world?