English AS Frankenstein Literary Features Flashcards

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Allusion

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Reference to something widely kwon from literature, art, history, media, politics, etc. Connection for better understanding.

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Antagonist

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Opponent in a competition , battle etc. Creates interest through conflict.

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Anti-Hero

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A protagonist who lacks the positive attributes of an archetypical hero and posses the attributes of the archetypical Villan instead. Thus blurring the lines of hero and villain

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which some absent or non existed person or thing is addressed as if preset and able of understanding

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Dialogue

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Conversation in a book play or film

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Doppelgänger (Double Going)

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A ghostly double of a living person especially one that haunts fleshly counter parts of a paranormal double of a living person typically representing evil or misfortune

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Dramatic Tension

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Suspense of a feeling of uncertain and anxiety. Bad up to big even; tension=primary emotion keeps readers attention

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Epistolary Narration

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A novel written as a series of characters (letters diaries newspaper)

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Flashback

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A seen in a film play book that shows something that happened in a story

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Foil

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A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character

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Framing Device

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Any element at the beginning of a wrok that is repeated toward the end of the work to frame the story

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In Media Res

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In the middle of things. Engage the internet of an audience, provide space for flash backs.

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Motif

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an idea or image repeated a lot

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Myth/Mythology

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A tradition of legendary story using concerning some being or without a determinable basis of a fact or a natural explanation

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Parody

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A piece of writing music etc. or an action that copies someone or something in an amusing way

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Tragic Flaw

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A flaw in the personality in a character that leads to their downfall

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Gender Theory

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Examining how female/Male characters are portrayed: Exposing how gender roles are portrayed in order to demonstrate attitudes and traditions reinforcing systematic gender roles inscribed in literature

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Setting

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the place where something is or where something happens and the general environment