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Lit Fiction Test One Terms

The rendering and ordering of the events and actions of a story

problem in any piece of literature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist

occurs after the climax, where the conflict is resolved. It may contain a moment of final suspense, during which the final outcome of the conflict is in doubt.

Is a technique used by authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story. In other words, it is a technique in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.

Catastrophe

It is the moment of greatest danger for the protagonist(s) and usually consists of a seemingly inevitable prospect of failure- it surprises you to the point that gets you excited to see what is to come in the end.

the location and time of a story, is often listed as one of the fundamental elements of fiction

An introduction which tells us who the characters are, when and where the story takes place, and what their conflict is.

A narrator is telling the story either from an all-knowing or limited view

One of the characters, using the personal pronoun 'I', is telling the story

The main character, often a good or heroic type

The main character, often a good or heroic type

A general and universal point about human nature or life expressed in the narrative.

A Important events which occur as the characters take steps

Major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it

Minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story

symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning

A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature

A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example is "My love is a red, red rose,"

A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: "My love is like a red, red rose

An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie, the rocking horse in "The Rocking-Horse Winner," the road in Frost's "The Road Not Taken"--all are symbols in this sense.

The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader. There are four traditional points of view: third person omniscient, third person, first person, and second person

Same as round character

Same as flat character

Knows everything

Confined knowledge

In which the narrator knows or appears to know no more than the reader

Looks at outside sources to interpret text: e.g., author biography, other works by author, what author has said about this story or other literature

Assumes that text is self-contained and self-referential; would not use author biography; instead, focuses on structure, patterns, repetition, and other elements of fiction

What do we learn about a historical period from the work? What do we learn about a certain culture or society's attitudes, values, beliefs? How does a knowledge of the culture affect/enrich our interpretation of the story?

Study the characters as if they are real people. What are their motivations? Why do they act as ttey do? We can use modern psychological analysis on stories of any age

What does the story tell us about male and female roles in that setting? We can study gender issues that are presented intentionally or unintentionally by the author

Focuses on the subjective responses of the reader. How does the reader relate to the events or issues in the literature? The reader might respond by writing his/her own story with a similar conflict or theme

ways that we readers might choose to analyze the literary works we read

Earliest English speaking settlers came for religious freedom. Much of the literature was religious: spiritual autobiographies and stories of conversion

Named for the Classical age of Ancient Greece, Concerned with man’s responsibilities to himself and to his country, Self-teaching, Democratic writings

Upper classes, sometimes titles, Unusual settings, Unusual occurrences--supernatural events--not the same as "romance novels" but some similarities exist

Middle classes, Tries to recreate the actualities of real life

Intensification of Realism, Lower classes, Man as natural animal, Nature as powerful, Survival of the fittest

Challenged the conventions of literature, Less tidy endings, less closure