Part II Flashcards
(20 cards)
complication or conflict
- element of plot
- exposition-complication-climax-resolution
- produces suspense
denouement
french term for resolution, last element of a plot where the complication is solved after the climax.
discontinuous narrative
- a narrative style in which the narrative moves back and forth through time. Not follow a linear plot line.
- This particular style is usually associated with Modernist literature.
drama
- one of the three classical literary genres.
- involves text, transformation and performance
Dramatic irony
- Dramatic irony is an important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, Theatres and sometimes in poetry.
- Storytellers use this irony as a useful plot device for creating situations where audience knows more about the situations than leading characters.
- it creates intense suspense and humor.
- also emphasizes and conveys emotions more effectively.
epic
- from Greek, means a poetic story.
- In literature, an epic is a long narrative poem, which is usually related to heroic deeds of a person of an unusual courage and unparalleled bravery.
epistolary novel
- Epistolary means letter.
- Epistolary is a literary genrepertaining to letters, in which writers use letters, journals and diary entries in their works, or they tell their stories or deliver messages through a series of letters.
fiction
- defines it as, “literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.”
- includes short story and novel.
figural narrative situation
- There is no apparent narrator. A reflector character thinks, feels and perceives. An illusion of im-mediacy is created.
- relatively recent, developed with the modern novel.
- the reader has to judge the situation herself.
first person narration
- First-person narrative: The world of the characters is identical to the world of the narrator.
- refers to herself as I or myself.
flashback
- “an interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence.”
flat character
- A flat character is a type of character in fiction that does not change too much from the start of the narrative to its end.
- Flat characters are often said not to have any emotional depths.
focalization
- The presentation of a scene through the subjective perception of a character.
1. internal focalization= assumes a character’s point of view.
2. externally focalized= the narrator is less knowledgeable than the characters.
3. zero focalization= the narrator knows more than the characters (omniscient).
foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
- creates suspense, and make readers want to read more.
framing
- segment of a scene, person or object represented on film.
- close-up, long short etc. which setting to be displayed.
genre
- Genre means the type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content and style.
- poetry, drama, fiction (epic)
Heterodiegetic narrator
-he narrator does not appear as a character in the story told by him/her. A heterodiegetic narrator tells a different story from his/her own; s/he may function as intradiegetic narrator.
Homodiegetic narrator
The narrator appears as a character in the story told by him/her. A homodiegetic narrator may tell his/her own story (as “autodiegetic narrator”).
interior monologue
- arrative technique that exhibits the thoughts passing through the minds of the protagonists.
- no other comments
irony
- is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
- may also be a situation that
may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality.
