A Christmas Carol Structural Techniques Flashcards

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Altruistic attitude

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Behavious which is based on devotion to others

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Authorial voice

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An authoritative voice which the ghosts have

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Dichotomy

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Contrast of two beings that are opposed or distinctly different

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Foil

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Character which serves to contrast another to emphasise certain characters of the other character (fred is a foil to scrooge)

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Idealisation

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Imagining something better than it is in reality it can be argued that the character of bob cratchit is idealised.

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Intrusive narrator

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Narrator who sometimes interrupts the story to give commentary

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Metamorphosis

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Transformation or change

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Narrative arc

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Storyline of a novel

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Novella

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Short novel roughly 20000 - 40000

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Omniscient narrator

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Narrator who is all knowing

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