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BASES |Prose analysis - definitions Flashcards

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Novel

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a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

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Prose

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Language without metrical structure

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Character

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a person or an animal in a book, play or film

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Character of humours

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a character that has one prevailing feature such as greed, cowardice, boastfulness

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Round character

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Complex character

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Flat character

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A character of humour or stock character; can be expressed in one sentence, is easily recogniable

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Consistent character

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Their actions are in keeping with their usual temperament

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Inconsistent character

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Random, haphazard actions and temparement

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Static character

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Remains the same throughout the piece of work

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Dynamic character

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Changes and/or develops throughout the book

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Reliable character

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One that the reader can “trust”

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Unreliable character

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One whose vision of things is distorted; relay information (to the reader or another character) that contradicts information given by the implied author

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Stock character

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Recurring conventional character in a given genre (buffon in comedy, nurse in tragedy)

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Point of view

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the vantage point from which a story is presented

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Third-person POV

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narrator knows everything about the character’s thoughts and feelings

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First-person POV

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we enter a character’s mind, restricted view of the scene and other characters

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Internal focalization

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events are seen from inside the story, gives a restricted view of the story

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Focalizer

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the character whose angle of vision dictate the focalization of the story

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Interior monologue

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An example of internal focalization

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Multiple focalization

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the point of view shifts from one character to others in the the course of the narrtive

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External focalization

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events are seen from outside of the story, giving restricted OR unrestricted knowledge

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Zero focalization

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events are seen from ouside AND the narrator is omniscient, has access to unrestricted information

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Narrator

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the one who speaks the story

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Real author

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the person who wrote the story

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Implied author

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author who addresses the reader directly in the work and/or whose ideas provide norms that are felt in the book

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Implied reader

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the reader directly addressed in fiction

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Real reader

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the person who reads the work

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Narrattee

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when the narrator addressed someone directly; this is them

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Direct exposition

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description by an authoritative voice of the characters and the scene

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Associations

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the name of the character, their external appeaance, their diret enviroement reflects upon their character

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Speech mannerisms

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manners of speaking typical of a character, reflecting their social class of circle

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Malapropism

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a type of speech mannerism when two words are confusedd

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Skaz

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a first-person narrative which reflects oral speech (colloquialisms, repetitions, mistakes)

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Embedding or nesting or mise en abyme

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a story within a story

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Mise en abyme

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a mirror effect in the

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Extradiegetic level of narration

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highest level of narration (by an external narrator)

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Hypodiegetic level of narration

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lower leve of narration (by a character inside the story)

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Extradiegetic narrator

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remains superior to the story; the story they tell is the main one

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Intradiegetic narrator

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telling a story which is embedded in the main story

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Autodiegetic narrator

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first-person narrator who tells their own story

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Heterodiegetic narrator

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omniscient narrators who are not participants

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Homodiegetic narrator

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narrators who are also participants

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Narrative summary

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narrator reporting conversation by giving a summary

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Indirect speech or reported speech

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introduced by reporting verbs (tag); changes in tenses, pronouns and advers; reports the contents of what was said

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Semi-indirect speech

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same as indirect speech but including quotation marks

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Free indirect speech or thought

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allows us to follow the characters’ words or thoughts without the narrator’s intervention

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Direct speech

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quotation marks, reporting verb; as if we were witnessing the scene

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Free direct speech

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reported without cues or reporting verbs

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