ENG1300 Chapter 4/5

Question 1

Historical Fiction

Answer 1

Story setting in another time & place, seeking to recreate a picture of daily life in a given period. May use real, well-known, or author may create imagined characters.

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

The attitude towards a subject, the net result of various elements that creates an overall feeling.

Question 3

Irony

Answer 3

A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. When a writer says one thing, but means another.

Question 4

Regionalism

Answer 4

Literary representation of specific locale-uses particulars of geography, custom, history, culture, or speech.

Question 5

A Typical Victorian Stylistic Convention

Answer 5

Editorial narration, narrative voice interrupts story from time to time, remarking on the action or offering an opinion.

Question 6

Style

Answer 6

The distinctive ways an author uses language, depends on their unique use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, and figurative language.

Question 7

Place

Answer 7

The overall physical environment of a story - could be a house, a street, a city, a landscape, a region-aka locale.

Question 8

Sarcasm

Answer 8

A conspicuously bitter form of irony in which the ironic statement is designed to hurt or mock its target.

Question 9

Dramatic Irony

Answer 9

Reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation may foresee the oncoming disaster or triumph that a character cannot.

Question 10

Setting

Answer 10

The overall time and place of a story. May include climate, social, psychological or spiritual state of characters.

Question 11

Time

Answer 11

Refers not just to the actual hour of the day, but also includes the year, or century, or particular period.

Question 12

Minimalism

Answer 12

Story that is written in a flat, unemotional tone, bare, unadorned style. Often lacks explicit feelings and showy language.

Question 13

Diction

Answer 13

Word choice or vocabulary. Refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate for a particular work.

Question 14

Cosmic Irony or Irony of Fate

Answer 14

Situational irony that emphasizes discrepancy between what the character deserves and what they get, between a character’s aspirations and the treatment he or she receives at the hands of some greater moving force.

Question 15

Annotate the Text

Answer 15

One of the best methods for reading actively-underlining words, phrases, or sentences that are interesting or raise questions.

Question 16

Atmosphere

Answer 16

The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all parts of a literary work. Total effect of language, imagery, and setting.

Question 17

Naturalism

Answer 17

Characters are presented as products or victims of environment or heredity. Extreme form of Realism.

Question 18

Analysis

Answer 18

Greek word for ‘breaking up”. A type of essay that breaks a story into specific elements and studies one part very closely.

Question 19

Verbal Irony

Answer 19

Speaker or writer says the opposite of what is really meant-example may be “how graceful!” after you’ve tripped

Question 20

Weather

Answer 20

The climate that occurs during the story-can take on its own character and mirror events in the story.