Chapter 3 Vocab Flashcards
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
Deconstruction
Subcategories of reader-response criticism
Name the four things that it views
Feminist and liberationist criticism
1) women
2) ethnic minorities
3) the poor
4) the politically oppressed
A variety of literary methods which find meaning in the readers response
Reader- response criticism (or audience criticism)
Structuralism is fundamentally______ and _____-_______
Formalist and text-centered
A type of literary criticism which seeks to analyze literature according to patterns
Structuralism
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
Canon criticism
Refers to the collection of books considered by the church to be authoritative scripture
Canon
A type of literary criticism that uses ancient categories of rhetoric to see how authors instruct or persuade their audiences
Rhetorical criticism
3 purposes of rhetoric
1) instruct
2) delight
3) persuade
Used to praise or blame anothers actions
Epideictic Rhetoric
Used to persuade or dissuade
Deliberative Rhetoric
Meant to accuse or defend
Judicial Rhetoric
When a character intentionally uses irony
Verbal irony
When events themselves are ironic
Situational irony
The apparent meaning is contrary to the real meanings
Irony
A general term for one thing standing for something else
Symbolism
A “sandwiching” technique where one episode is inserted into the middle of another
Intercalation
A “bookend” structure in which a similar statement or episode begins and ends
Inclusio
A pattern in which a series or things repeats itself in reverse order
Chiasm
Indicates an authors concerns and emphases and is one of the simplest ways of stressing a theme
Repetition
Refers to the way that a story is told to get the desired response from the reader
Rhetoric
The setting or a narrative can include the ____, ____ and ______ _______.
Place, Time and social circumstances
Refers to the world of human relationships
Social cultural settings
May be related to sequence, may be descriptivec or may be related to type of kind of time
Temporal settings
Refers to any object or place
Local settings
All aspects of the narrative world
Name the 3 kinds
Settings
1) local
2) temporal
3) social
Characters who remain the same throughout the narrative
Static characters
Characters who develop and change in a narrative
Dynamic characters
Simple, one-dimensional and predictable characters
Flat characters
Complex and unpredictable characters with many traits
Round characters
The way that the characters are portrayed for the reader
Characterization
Individuals or groups in a narrative
Characters
The manner in which the story is narrated such as _____, _____ and ______.
Narrative time
1) order
2) speed
3) duration
The passing of time in the narrative world of text
Story time
_____ world is the Jewish roots of the gospel
Gentile
Some kind of opposition that the characters must work through
Conflict
Concerns the relationship of one scene to the other
Causation
A group of related scenes
Plot act
A group of related events
Plot scene
Refer to any actions or sayings by a character
Plot events
Shows settings and characters in ____,_____, and ____
Plot
1) events
2) scenes
3) acts
Hearer of the story used by the narrator to accomplish their purpose
Narratees
An imaginary person who responds appropriately to the strategy of a narrative text
Implied readers
Anyone who reads texts whether they where ancient or modern
Real readers
______ is the _____, ______ and _______ that the reader should know in order to judge the events and characters of a narrative
Evaluative point of view
1) values
2) beliefs
3) worldview
The universe created by the author to show how or where the narrative takes place
Narrative world
The “voice” that is heard telling a story
Narrator
The literary version of the author in a narrative text
Implied author
The historical person who wrote the gospel
Real author
A method of literary analysis that treats the gospels as a story
Narrative criticism
Varied methods that studies the gospels as unified literary works
Literary criticism
