Literary Terms Quiz

Question 1

Focuses on the readers interpretation. Meaning is not just in the text, but created by the readers’ experience and imagination

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Reader response theory

Question 2

Creative writing by fans that uses characters or settings from existing works-often explores new scenarios, relationships, or genres not in the original

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Fan fiction

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Reading to extract information or facts

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Efferent lens

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Reading fer experience, emotion, and enjoyment

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Aesthetic lens

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Careful, detailed analysis of a text. Focuses on language, structure, word choice, and deeper meaning

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Close reading

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First person

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“I” or “we”

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Second person

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“You”

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Third person

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“He”, “she”, or “they”

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The world of the story (everything the characters can experience)

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Diegesis

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Can we trust the narrator? Are they biased or deceptive?

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Reliability

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How the story is told. (order, structure, language)

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Discourse

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Who sees or experiences the events, focus of perception

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Focalization

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Narration that mimics a characters thought process disjointed flowing and personal

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Stream of consciousness

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Person, diegesis, reliability, discourse, focalization, stream of consciousness

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Narration: the narrator as “instrument” or “device” (6)

Question 15

Chronological sequence of events

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Story

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How the events are arranged and presented

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Plot

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When events happen

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Time

Question 18

Distance or involvement from the narrators perspective

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Mode

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Who speaks and from what perspective

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Voice

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Real-time

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Isochrony

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Events sped up

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Summary

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Events as they happen

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Scene

Question 23

Pause in action for description

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Stasis

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Skipping time/events

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Ellipses

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How often events are narrated (once repeatedly or never)

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Frequency

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Plot vs. Story, time mode & voice, narrative duration, frequency

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Time & narration (4)

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Driven by what they say, (dialogue) and do (action)

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Motivation

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Characters remain true to themselves, or evolve logically, a character actions align with their established traits, maintains core traits regardless of events, unless of character growth or transformation

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Consistency and stability

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Complex, developed

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Round

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Simple, one-dimensional

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Flat

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Objects that reveal character traits or themes

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Objects associated with

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Imply traits through action/dialogue

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Show

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Directly state character traits

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Tell

Question 34

Motivation, consistency and stability, round vs. Flat, objects associated with, show vs. Tell

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Characters (5)

Question 35

Combination of time and space shaping the story's world

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Space vs. Time (chronotope)

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Changes in viewpoint (time, space, person)

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Deictic shifts

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Focus of attention

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Figure

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Background setting/context

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Ground

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Fixed positions (example, a map of a city where town hall is always central)

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Topological location (invariant)

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Relative positions (example, "to the left of")

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Projective location (variant)

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Larger zones (cities, countries)

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Regions

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Notable points (a tower, a tree)

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Landmarks

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Movement routes (roads, rivers)

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Paths

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Chronotope + a character’s actions and language = meaning of a scene

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Contextual frame

Question 45

Space vs. Time, deictic shifts, figure vs. Ground, topological vs. Projective location, types of spaces, contextual frame

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Storyworlds (6)

Question 46

Relation of time and space, fusion of time and place - shapes how characters move and change

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Chronotope