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Unit 2 Terms Flashcards

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Pastoral

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A text portraying an idealized version of country life

-typically for urban audiences

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Evocation

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The act of recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind

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Poignacy

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The experience of a keen sense of sadness or regret

Anything that can bring an empathetic tear to the eye

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What scenes are meant to evoke Poignancy?

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Pastoral Scenes

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What 2 attributes are in Poignant scenes?

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1) emotional music

2) close ups (eg. on people’s intense relationships)

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Bucolic

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Something relating to the pleasant aspects of country life

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Anarchich

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Lawless and chaotic with no controlling rules

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Juxtaposition

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things being placed together for a contrasting effect

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Iconic

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an image, person, or concept we’re familiar with, that represents something worthy of respect

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Icon

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Something that represents something else

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iconography

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Group of visual images / symbols

The study and interpretation of images and symbols

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Religious iconography

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Artistic forms and gestures used to convey religious concepts
Representations of religious ideas and events

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Iconographic lense

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Observe imagery with an eye to what it represents in a separate source text outside of the artwork itself

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Literary Canon

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Body of books, narratives, and texts that were seen to be the most influential of a particular time period or place

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Memento Mori

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Reminder of Death

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Chekhov’s Gun

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A set up that has a pay off

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Text

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Refers to writing, objects, actions , behaviours that have a cultural meaning

any cultural artifact can be read as a text

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Easter Eggs

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An unexpected, metafictional feature in a text, intended as a bonus

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Poetic Justice

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A literary device in which virtue (good behaviour) is rewarded and vice (bad behaviour) is punished, usually in an ironic appropriate way
- KARMA

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Metaficton

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Fiction that refers to itself

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Frame Narrative

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A second, more emphasized is told within initial narrative

- A story within a story

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The Unrealiable Narrator

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When the narrator’s perspective is filtered through their past experiences
-when their viewpoint is compremised ; can’t trust them

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Child

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narrator’s inexperience impacting narration

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Outsider

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narrator’s prejudice impacting narration

eg. race, class, gender, etc

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Unrealiable Narrator: | The Mental Health Sufferer
narrator's mental health issues impacting narration | eg. eating disorder, drug use, alcoholism
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Unrealiable Narrator: | The Innocent
narrator has low intelledence / learning disability / not having key information impacting narration
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Unrealiable Narrator: | The Criminal
a venchful blaming narrator / a guilt narrator trying to convince you of innocence impacting narration
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Unrealiable Narrator: | The Supernatural
ghostly / overworldly narrator impacting narration
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Unrealiable Narrator: | The WItful Liar
The narrator tries to mess with the reader , impacting narration
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief
An unspoken agreement between a text's creator and the audience member -the member accepts what is being presented
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Intertextually
The relationship between literary texts | -reference / allusion to a text within another text
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Carpe Diem
Seize the Day
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Anachronism
An error of chronology / timeline in a text | -anything outof place / time
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Pastiche
A purposeful mimicking of an artistic / literary form "a playful anachronism" -parody
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Medium / Genre
eg. poem, painting, film, archetecture
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Materials
eg. paper quality, oil paint, 35mm film, steel
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Composition
eg. word combinations, colour use, rough surfacing
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Structures
eg. sonnet, paragraphing, model posing
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Diction
eg. figurative language
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Intended Message
The meaning the author wants the reader to get
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Emotion
Internal state of the reader approaching a text
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Reaction
personal thoughts, feelingsm & emotions in response to the text
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Action
What the reader is doing while assessing the text
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Intellect
Individual ability to reason & understand
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Education
individual, intuition-based knowledge & structures
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Experience
memory of the reader's personal past
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Perceived Message
what meaning the reader actually makes
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Literary Theory
asserts the filter through which you look at a text affects the meaning of that text
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Reader Response Theory
meaning is determined by the reader's own personal life experience
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Feminist Theory
An evolving critical philosophy that takes into account gender politics, power relations & sexuality - focuses on the differences between male & female roles, perceptions, power, and oftern female experience - aka Gender Theory
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Marxist Theory
Focuses on economic, political & relational power | -materialism vs spirituality as an issue
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Psychoanalytic Theory
Examines the internal, psychological motivations of authors / characters in a text
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Archetypal Theory
Examines Archetypes / stereotypes seen throughout history
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Agency
refers to the capacity of an "agent" / individual to act individually in the world
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Gender
A set of social characteristics that are used by a culture to distinguish the ideas of male and female (opposed to physical characteristics)
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Hegemony
The political economic / cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups
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Ideaology
A set of ideas / expectations that shape the thinking / understanding of a culture / society -determines how an individual looks at, sees, and participates in the world
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Femvertising
The use of feminist principles and ideas to sell products
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The Other + what is Othering
Identity created by defining ourselves against something : we distance ourselves from those we see as not like us- the other Othering: giving the other aspects that we don't like / are afraid of

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