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what should you do before you read

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preview the selection
- look at the back
-inside cover
-headings
-author
activate prior knowledge
set a purpose
-why am i reading this
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What should you do while you read

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p-predict
v-visualize
c-connect
c-clarify
q-question
e-evaluate
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what to do after you read

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stop-think-summerize

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what does folklore litterally mean

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folka-german for people

lore- all traditions about a subject, gathered through time and expirience

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What mediums can folklore be told through

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stories, song, music,drama,art, architecture, dancing, food, clothing

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5 things all folktales share

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  1. fiction
  2. no place in time or space
  3. no author-ppl add on to them
  4. part of oral tradition-passed down through geniration
  5. didactic-teaches a lesson, moral, example, warning, something to come away with
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protagonist

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main character

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antagonist

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opposing character

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allusion

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a reference to a work of literature, a person, a thing, or an event that the reader is expected to recognize
-bible, greek mythology 2 most common ancient texts

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reference

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mention

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evolve

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grow change

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how did folktales evolve

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200 BC China- part of oral traditions for adults/warriers
1700’s france- written, started using printing press-still for adults
1800’s germany- brothers grim-aloth of princess stories
-cristan anderson-glass sliper
1930’s disney-cleans up the stories

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motif

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reacurring imagge/words/idea

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symbol

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person, place, object, idea, that represents something else

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theme

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universal mesage that transends culture and time

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trickster tale

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a character uses their smarts and wits to overcome the antagonist
ex: anansi and all the stories

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Myth

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attempts to explain the unexplainable about the natrul world

ex: the raven and the light, anansi and the moon

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folktale

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a story that meets the basic requirments

ex:green willow

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parable

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a very beief story about ordinary events and humen characteristics that teaches a moral lesson about life

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legend

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believed to be true, has a time and a place,based on real ppl heros/st’s/kings

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fable

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short
explicit moral
animals talk and walk like humens

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tall tale

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  • believed to be based on a real person
  • exaggerates so no longer believeable
  • uniquely american/1800’s
  • came about because of western expansion
  • based o pioneers
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fairytale

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magic/magical beings

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what do didactic works do

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primarily amid at teaching or instructing

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How many meanings do storys have

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everyone takes away their own meaning/ they do not have a set meaning

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what lessons do didactic stories teach

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meaning of life

How to live! Life Lesson

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anacdote

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brief story that contains framiliar characters,setting, and actions that teach a lesson about living

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carul Jung

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created the theory of the collected unconsious

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What are the characteristics of Archetypes

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  • we share them with humanity
  • they are inherited/connects our past to common source
  • not directely knowable/express in forms
  • grow out of mans social, phycological, and biological being
  • They are universal
  • cannot be explained by interaction of cultures
  • they are reccurent
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Archetype definintions

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  • greek word meaning original pattern or old model

- an event or story or image that reaccurs in different works in dif culture in different time periods

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quest

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the search for someone or some talisman which when found or brought back will restore fertility to a waisted land

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task

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to save the kingdom, to win fair lady, prove ones rightful position, the hero must preform some nearby superhuman deed. also restores fertility to waisted land

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the initation

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usually take the form of an initation into adult life-RITE of passage

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Initation A-The journey

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hero goes in serch of truth or info necessary to restore fertility to kingdom; usually he/she decends into a real or psychological hell to discover the blackest truths concerning their faults

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Initation B- Journey variation

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a group finds themself together on a voyage or in an isolated situation. Each member of the group will represent a leval of society. As a microcosm of society, the group will decend into a real or phycological hell to discover te blackest truths concerning a society or culture

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the fall

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a decendent from a high to low state of being witch involves a defilement or loss of inocense; often characters are expelled from a kind or paradise as a penalty

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death and rebirth

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a common archetype which draws parallels between the cycle of nature and cycle of life. Morning and spring are birth, while winter evening is death

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nature vs mechanistic world

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that which is natural or part of the natural order is good. Tecnology which separates people from nature, or the natural world is bad

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Battle between good and evil

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A battle between two primal fources. The future or the very existence of the kingdom is often at stake. Good triumphs over evil dispite great odds, but ofter a terrible sacrifice by the hero or by the kingdom as a whole must be made to insure victory

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unhealable wound

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this wound is either real or phycological and cannot be healed fully. the wound often indicates a loss of innocence. the unhealable wound often aches, especially in the presence of what caused the wound and drives the sufferer to desprate measures

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The ritual

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actual ceremonies that marks the rite of passage into another state or leval of society. this rite is a sighnpost for a characters role in society

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The magic weapon

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weapon symbolizes the extrodinary quality of the hero or heroine because no one else can use or weild the weapon. It is givin by a mentor figure

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light vs darkness

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light suggests hope, renewal, or intellectual illumination; darkness implies the unknown, ignorance, or despair

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Water vs desert

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water is a symbol of birth, rebirth, or clensing. A desert is seen as the opposite, or a place of exile. Often the desert is represented by an absense of the expected:lack of wind or waves on the ocean, lack of rain, absence of game to hunt in the wilderness, etc

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Heaven vs Hell

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The skies and mountain tops house the gods; the bowels of the earth of pits hide evil forces

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Allegory

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narrative or description which has a second meaning beneath the surface one

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Antihero

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A protagonist lacking in one or more of the qualities of a traditional hero. They lack character

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Dynamic Character

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a character who undergoes a change or achieves growth

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Flat character

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Can be summed up in one or two traits

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Foil character

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a minor character whose situations or actions paralel those of a major character; through contrast, reader achieves a fuller understanding of main character

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round character

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character is complex and many-sided

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static character

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same at begining as at the end

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stock character

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a stereotyped character; one who is framilliar as a type in other works

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comedy

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has happy ending; emphasizes humen limitations rather than greatness

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connotation

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a word suggests beyond its literal meaning; overtones of meaning

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denotation

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the dictionary meaning of a word

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diction

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word choice

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Epiphany

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a moment of insight or understanding by which a characters attitudes or life are altered greatly

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figure of speech

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a way of saying something other than the ordinary way; an imaginative comparison

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imagery

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representation thrrough language of sence expirence

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In Medias res

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story begins in the middle of things with little exposition

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Irony

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A situuation or use of language that normally signifies the opposite, typically humerous

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verbal irony

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a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

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Dramatic ironey

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an incongruity between what a character percieves and what the author intends the reader to percieve

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Situational ironey

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A situation in which there is an incongruity between appearence and reality, between expectation and fufillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate

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Paradox

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Statement or situation which contains an apparently contradictory element; on further examination, often yeilds some truth

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complication

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introduces a conflict

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crisis

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moment of high tension

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denouement

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falling action

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Naturalism

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fiction of grim realism, in which the writer observes humen characteristics like a scientist observing ants, seeing them as the products and victims of enviroment and hereditary

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Innate wisdom vs educated stupidly

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hero cannot reach goal without learning hard lesson

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fire vs ice

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fire represents knowledge, light, rebirth; ice represents ignorance, dakness, sterility, and death

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young one from provinces

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hero is raised by stranges returns to home and solves problems

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the initatives

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hero must endure some training or cerimony prior to quest

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objective POV

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Presents the actionsand thoughts of the character but does not judge them or insert opinions

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Innocent or naive Narrorator

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narrorator does not fully understand implications of story-could be child or adult with intelect or child

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prose

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opposite of poetry

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Satire

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literature which pokes fun at humen folly with the intention of changing things or preventing future ills

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Sentimentallity

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a defect in writing where writter feels tremendous emotion but does not provide reader enogh reason to share feelings

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style

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individual characteristics in a piece of writing

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tone

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emotional coloring of work-the writers or speakers attitude toward his subject

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what 3 things did Frey notice all stories have

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setting characters and conflict

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