Analysis

Question 1

Narration

Answer 1

The telling of a story, can be first,third or second person

Question 2

Homodiegetic

Answer 2

Narrator is inside the story, he is also a character himself

Question 3

Heterodiegetic

Answer 3

Just a voice, not a character

Question 4

Intradiegetic

Answer 4

Story within a story (mise en abyme)

Question 5

Extradiegetic

Answer 5

Not a story within another

Question 6

Overt/Covert narrator

Answer 6

Is the narrator easy to detect ?

Question 7

Focalisation

Answer 7

Who sees ?

Question 8

Internal Focalisation

Answer 8

Through the eyes of one character, the reader shares his knowledge but also his ignorance regarding element of the story(first,third person)

Question 9

External Focalisation

Answer 9

Story viewed from outside, the pov don’t belong to anyone. The narrator is an observer and don’t have all the info(third person)

Question 10

Zero Focalisation

Answer 10

Omniscient narrator, story without pov access to all info

Question 11

Archetype Characters

Answer 11

A type of character who represent a universal pattern and therefore appeals to human collective unconscious ex: which, magician, knights…

Question 12

Characterisation

Answer 12

The act of creating and describing a character. It includes both physical descriptions and personality

Question 13

Methods of characterisation

Answer 13

Physical description, action, inner thoughts…

Question 14

Types of characterisation

Answer 14

Direct/Explicit: describie everything,physical and mental
Indirect: decribe only through action,speech and dialogue

Question 15

Intertextuality

Answer 15

Relationship between texts, when a text is referred I another

Question 16

Proleptic

Answer 16

Assumption of future act of development as if presently accomplished

Question 17

Mood

Answer 17

The target emotion, how you want the reader to feel ? (Dark,creepy,comedic mood)

Question 18

Setting

Answer 18

Encompasses both the mood and the atmosphere of a story. Provide a wider framework of geography,culture,historical context,period,background…

Question 19

Anachronism

Answer 19

When something appears in a story but it shouldn’t be there yet ex : you watch a movie about the 1800s and then you see a TV

Question 20

Atmosphere

Answer 20

Environment,emotions, refers to the texture of the story, created by the careful selection of details that provide the sensory palette that the reader will experience (language, imagery…)