Chapter 3 Vocab

Question 1

A literary approach which argues that the meaning of literary texts is unstable and relative and that meaning is ultimately imposed on texts by readers, rather than discerned from them

Answer 1

Deconstruction

Question 2

Subcategories of reader-response criticism

Name the four things that it views

Answer 2

Feminist and liberationist criticism

1) women
2) ethnic minorities
3) the poor
4) the politically oppressed

Question 3

A variety of literary methods which find meaning in the readers response

Answer 3

Reader- response criticism (or audience criticism)

Question 4

Structuralism is fundamentally______ and _____-_______

Answer 4

Formalist and text-centered

Question 5

A type of literary criticism which seeks to analyze literature according to patterns

Answer 5

Structuralism

Question 6

Refers to a variety of methods which focus on the relationship of the books of the Bible to one another and the role they play in the church

Answer 6

Canon criticism

Question 7

Refers to the collection of books considered by the church to be authoritative scripture

Answer 7

Canon

Question 8

A type of literary criticism that uses ancient categories of rhetoric to see how authors instruct or persuade their audiences

Answer 8

Rhetorical criticism

Question 9

3 purposes of rhetoric

Answer 9

1) instruct
2) delight
3) persuade

Question 10

Used to praise or blame anothers actions

Answer 10

Epideictic Rhetoric

Question 11

Used to persuade or dissuade

Answer 11

Deliberative Rhetoric

Question 12

Meant to accuse or defend

Answer 12

Judicial Rhetoric

Question 13

When a character intentionally uses irony

Answer 13

Verbal irony

Question 14

When events themselves are ironic

Answer 14

Situational irony

Question 15

The apparent meaning is contrary to the real meanings

Answer 15

Irony

Question 16

A general term for one thing standing for something else

Answer 16

Symbolism

Question 17

A “sandwiching” technique where one episode is inserted into the middle of another

Answer 17

Intercalation

Question 18

A “bookend” structure in which a similar statement or episode begins and ends

Answer 18

Inclusio

Question 19

A pattern in which a series or things repeats itself in reverse order

Answer 19

Chiasm

Question 20

Indicates an authors concerns and emphases and is one of the simplest ways of stressing a theme

Answer 20

Repetition

Question 21

Refers to the way that a story is told to get the desired response from the reader

Answer 21

Rhetoric

Question 22

The setting or a narrative can include the ____, ____ and ______ _______.

Answer 22

Place, Time and social circumstances

Question 23

Refers to the world of human relationships

Answer 23

Social cultural settings

Question 24

May be related to sequence, may be descriptivec or may be related to type of kind of time

Answer 24

Temporal settings

Question 25

Refers to any object or place

Answer 25

Local settings

Question 26

All aspects of the narrative world

Name the 3 kinds

Answer 26

Settings

1) local
2) temporal
3) social

Question 27

Characters who remain the same throughout the narrative

Answer 27

Static characters

Question 28

Characters who develop and change in a narrative

Answer 28

Dynamic characters

Question 29

Simple, one-dimensional and predictable characters

Answer 29

Flat characters

Question 30

Complex and unpredictable characters with many traits

Answer 30

Round characters

Question 31

The way that the characters are portrayed for the reader

Answer 31

Characterization

Question 32

Individuals or groups in a narrative

Answer 32

Characters

Question 33

The manner in which the story is narrated such as _____, _____ and ______.

Answer 33

Narrative time

1) order
2) speed
3) duration

Question 34

The passing of time in the narrative world of text

Answer 34

Story time

Question 35

_____ world is the Jewish roots of the gospel

Answer 35

Gentile

Question 36

Some kind of opposition that the characters must work through

Answer 36

Conflict

Question 37

Concerns the relationship of one scene to the other

Answer 37

Causation

Question 38

A group of related scenes

Answer 38

Plot act

Question 39

A group of related events

Answer 39

Plot scene

Question 40

Refer to any actions or sayings by a character

Answer 40

Plot events

Question 41

Shows settings and characters in ____,_____, and ____

Answer 41

Plot

1) events
2) scenes
3) acts

Question 42

Hearer of the story used by the narrator to accomplish their purpose

Answer 42

Narratees

Question 43

An imaginary person who responds appropriately to the strategy of a narrative text

Answer 43

Implied readers

Question 44

Anyone who reads texts whether they where ancient or modern

Answer 44

Real readers

Question 45

______ is the _____, ______ and _______ that the reader should know in order to judge the events and characters of a narrative

Answer 45

Evaluative point of view

1) values
2) beliefs
3) worldview

Question 46

The universe created by the author to show how or where the narrative takes place

Answer 46

Narrative world

Question 47

The “voice” that is heard telling a story

Answer 47

Narrator

Question 48

The literary version of the author in a narrative text

Answer 48

Implied author

Question 49

The historical person who wrote the gospel

Answer 49

Real author

Question 50

A method of literary analysis that treats the gospels as a story

Answer 50

Narrative criticism

Question 51

Varied methods that studies the gospels as unified literary works

Answer 51

Literary criticism