Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the type of extended prose fiction characterized by its complex characters, elaborate plots and subplots, intricate themes, and developed settings?
Novel
Who wrote “Where My Books Go”?
William Butler Yates
What two literary devices does William Butler Yates use in his poem?
Repetition and metaphor
What are the themes of the poem “Where My Books Go”?
The communication of words, the influence of words, determination
What are those who carry out the action of a story?
Characters
What directly states who the character is or what the character is like through a narration?
Direct exposition
What leads the Raiders to draw their own conclusions about the characters’ personalities, thoughts, dialogue, and actions?
Indirect revelation
What are characters that stay relatively the same throughout a story?
Static characters
What are characters who change in some way and are different at the story’s end?
Dynamic characters
What are characters who lack depth and often resemble stereotypes?
Flat characters
What are characters who have much more depth and more closely resemble real people?
Round characters
What is the struggle between opposing characters or forces within a story?
Conflict
What type of conflict is seen in man versus self?
Internal conflict
What type of conflict is seen in man versus man or man versus nature?
External conflict
What is the central character whose actions are primarily followed throughout the plot?
Protagonist
What stands is an opposing character who is in conflict with the protagonist?
Antagonist
What is the series of events in a story that communicates an overall message?
Plot
What is the most common and foundational plot structure used in both novels and plates?
Dramatic structure
What works as an introduction to provide background information that will aid the understanding of the plot?
Exposition
What follows the exposition and begins with the inciting force?
Rising action
What is an event which threw some force, whether it be another character or some other factor, thrusts the protagonist into the conflict?
Inciting force
What is a change or turning point in the story?
Climax
What brings the primary resolution to the conflict of the story?
Falling action
What follows the falling action and brings the story to its conclusion?
denouement
What are the themes of “On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy”?
Public Virtue, Terror, Revolution
What work are these lines from “Terror is nothing other than justice, prompts, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country’s most urgent needs”?
On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy
What work are these lines from “The government of the revolution is liberty’s despotism against tyranny”?
On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy
What is the purpose of William Yeats’ works?
to comfort people
What are the themes of “Reflections on the revolution of France”?
Freedom, virtue, political systems, revolution, and reform
What work are these lines from “But study independent minds, when they have an object so serious a concern to mankind as government under their contemplation, will disdain to assume the part of satirist and disclaimers. They will judge of human institutions as they do of human characters. Sort out the good from the evil, which is mixed in martial institutions as it is in mortal men. Quotes
Reflections on the revolution of France
What work are these lines from “Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”
Reflections on the revolution of France
What does Burke believe about the issue of sin and government when it comes to reform?
Unlike the people involved in the French Revolution, Burke believes that people should attack the issue and vices of sin instead of tearing down the government and killing off the people in it
Why does Burke believe what he does about government reform?
Because Burke knows that if the issue of sin is not addressed, if someone else were to come to government who was worse the issue of sin would still be there and nothing would have changed
Who wrote “Reflections on the Revolution of France”?
Edmund Burke
