English exam #1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Narrative Voice:
Who is speaking in this passage?
What narrative perspective is being used in this passage?
What does the narrative voice tell you?
What characters does it give you access to?
Comparative essay
Structure:
Alternating Argument 1 (tone)& 2(diction) Intro 1st argument & so on Text a Text b Comparison conclusion
First person:
The narrator uses I
- Readers may only see through these characters eyes, limited perspective
- Pov is reliable or unreliable
Second person:
the narrator uses you
- in happy endings
- In order to engage reader
Third person:
The narrator uses he/ she/ we/ they
- Sometimes the narrator sees through the perspective of one character only
- Limited: multiple characters perspectives
- Multiple: the narrative point of view is omniscient
- All seeing: the narrator can see all the characters thoughts and actions
Diction:
What words are being used here?
Are any words repeated in this passage?
What adjectives are used? What nouns do they describe? How do they alter your understanding of these nouns?
Are any words being used in unusual ways? Are any words referring to something more than what is simply stated? Are any two (or more) words in the passage connected in some way?
Tone:
Is the speaker being straightforward, factual, open?
Is he or she taking a less direct route toward his or her meaning?
Does the voice carry any emotion? Or is it detached from its subject?
Do you hear irony (what is said is different from what is meant)? If so, where?
Rhetorical and Literary devices:
Do you notice any figurative language, such as metaphors and similes?
Do you observe any imagery?
Is the sound of the language and sentences important (e.g. repetition, choppy or long sentences)?
What is the effect of these devices an
Passage analysis outline
- INTRODUCTION
i. Introductory sentence:
ii. Thesis:
iii. Transition: - BODY PARAGRAPH #1- whatevr number
i. Topic sentence:
ii. Introduce quote:
iii. Quote:
iv. Analyze quote:
v. Relate back to thesis:
vi. Transition: Moreover - CONCLUSION:
i. Restate thesis:
ii. Concluding sentence:
Speech sounds:
Language doesn’t just give people a way to express their thoughts-it influences or even dominates those thoughts
speech sounds
Language doesn’t just give people a way to express their thoughts-it influences or even dominates those thoughts has an influence on peoples behavior an their way of thinking
A primer for the punctuation of heart disease
Speech isn’t enough sometimes and
Feelings are there but no body knows how to express them
A primer for the punctuation of heart disease
Conversation about his brothers heart attack: familiar with heart attacks, they know the consequences; don’t need specific language and know they are both sorry
A primer for the punctuation of heart disease
Things that they are actually saying to eachother are the least important things
true short stories
A lie-evicts truth vs fiction- helps us get to truth
true short stories seven sections
Seven sections of the story:
Overheard conversation about stories (iction, the recounting of linklaters comments also intertextual)
Phone call to kasia. Background on kasia. Convo with her about stories (biography, truth)
New section: kasia’s campaign for herceptin (a cancer drug) to be made available in nhs hospitals (biography)
New section: story of echo (intertex)
New sectionL flashback to first meeting with kasia ( biography)
New section: thirteen quotations from other real writers about short stories. (metafiction and intertextuality)
new section: recollection of the 2 men the narrator overheard in the cafe
big water theme
Only way to end colonization and damage to the environment is to flood the world and start again
big water: why they use their phones still
We all know there’s things we shouldn’t be doing but were willing to compromise- brings mythical creatures to a human level
Omelas utilitarism
Utilitarianism: “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain and the provation of pleasure.”
omelas: what does it emphasize
Empazises the too good to be true aspect in the beginning, because of the repeated exaggeration like using the words joyus is somewhat a foreshadow
omelas and ignorance
Reflects the actual truth of omelas, ignorance is bliss; the less the pay attention the more its less of a bother; Bystander effect
the yellow wallpaper: narrator
First person narrator:
the yellow wallpaper: why yellow?
The color being undefined depicts the narrators deception
- Abrasive
the yellow wallpaper: unreliability with first person narration
All first-person narrators can be unreliable because we are only getting 1 perspective on the story
