Analysing fiction: Themes Flashcards
What are common examples of themes?
Power. Love. Money. Death. Appearance + reality. Heroism. Technology in society. Friendship.
What are examples of language features?
Metaphor. Simile. Assonance. Alliteration. Personification. Emotive language. Sibilance. Verb. Adverb. Noun. Adjective. Connotations.
What is characterisation?
What characters like. What characters say. What characters do. How characters described. How seen by other characters.
What is narrative voice?
First person: character within story telling story.
Second person: Not commonly used by writers, personal pronouns you + your used throughout.
Third person: story told by voice of someone not character in story. Main personal pronouns used= he, she, they.
Third person omniscient: story told by voice that shows know more than characters in story- narrator all knowing- main personal pronouns used= she, he, they.
What could people think of about narrative voice?
1) How does reader feel about narrator?
2) Does reader trust narrator?
3) Is voice of narrator author or someone else?
4) How does narrator choose to show fictional world?