English Concepts

Question 1

Romance

Answer 1

episodic, featuring tales based on legends, other traditional materials. about love/war. aristocratic genre

Question 2

Novel

Answer 2

tale with single (or major) plot action. strong sense of closure, structure

Question 3

Fiction

Answer 3

invented story/narrative, anciently told in verse, today told in prose

Question 4

Narrator

Answer 4

“voice” tells tale to reader/audience. two categories: first (reliable, unreliable) [exist within space of story] or third person (omniscient, limited) [remain outside story, tho not necessarily in world of reader]

Question 5

Novel

Answer 5

longer prose narrative written with realism. formless, definable by difference from romance

Question 6

Point of View

Answer 6

position from which events of narrative observed. kind of the narrator. in older fiction, multiple pov are used.

Question 7

Genre

Answer 7

recognizable/established category of work employing common [shared] conventions, will prevent readers mistaking it from another kind

Question 8

Convention

Answer 8

established practice (technique, style, structure, subject matter). adopted in literary works by customary/implicit agreement/precedent vs natural necessity

Question 9

Soliloquy

Answer 9

dramatic convention. when actor doesn’t address another character, simply speaks. thoughts presented

Question 10

Meter and Rhyme

Answer 10

conventions of poetry. pre 20th century

Question 11

False Clues

Answer 11

convention of detective novel. detective usually led to false conclusions about who committed a crime

Question 12

Gunfights

Answer 12

convention of the western. final settling of accounts between hero and villain

Question 13

Realism

Answer 13

ype of style of writing/seeks to give impression of actual way of life. same world as reader. set of assumptions

Question 14

Marxism

Answer 14

interested in class

Question 15

Science Fiction

Answer 15

Form of fantastic, denies its fantastic. world different from now. embodies science as method: hypothesis. allegory of social life based on biology.

Question 16

Hard–boiled Detective Story

Answer 16

violence normal, corrupt city, forcing hero into underworld of crime, independent of police, street smarts, justice might not be legal, on side of working guys

Question 17

Classical Detective Crime

Answer 17

a riddle needs solving. Classist; detective is rich and educated, independent of police, crime violation of natural order

Question 18

Popular Literature

Answer 18

No form, trash, formula

Question 19

Formula

Answer 19

Don’t deviate from structure. Conformity + deviates from expected in minor ways. Not studied. Fulfill readers expectations + diverging from formula

Question 20

Archetype

Answer 20

Index tale of types. Formulas. Nuanced predictability. Do not violate readers baseline expectations. Conflicts endemic to human life. Search for love. Family. Relationship to nature

Question 21

Literary

Answer 21

Art

Question 22

Western

Answer 22

frontier, 19th century, intersection of civilization/”savagery”, isolated hero, explain character, natural world, self-sufficiency, action-based weight, nature/conflict

Question 23

Objective Dramatic Method

Answer 23

no narrator, omniscient from narrator, absence of “going behind”

Question 24

Victorian Literature

Answer 24

physical + moral = limit/boundary, 20th century, more frank

Question 25

Existentialism

Answer 25

fall into reality, metaphor, falling from a high place. to be human: not be agent who knows. choice, action. thrown into world

Question 26

Fight Fixing

Answer 26

shows you what you think of the world by why you choose as characters.

Question 27

Postmodernism Writing

Answer 27

Characters are people, free, independent

Question 28

1st person

Answer 28

reliable narrator, told from their perspective

Question 29

3rd person omniscient

Answer 29

narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story

Question 30

third-person limited

Answer 30

adheres closely to one character’s – usually the main character’s – perspective

Question 31

Narrative

Answer 31

telling of some true or fictional event, or connected sequence of events, told by narrator to audience