English Terminology Flashcards
Who is the author?
the real person who creates and manipulates the text
What is diction?
the selection of language from avoidable registers and language sets
What is discourse time?
the time taken by the narrative in telling
What is genre?
- recurrent literary form
- the way texts are grouped or characterised together to similar others
- What it does:
- can be used as a cue to read texts
- can trigger an interpretative reference
- constructs expectations by the reader
Who is the implied author?
the idea of the author constructed by the reader as they read the text
Who is the implied reader?
- the reader who is expected by us to be the actual intended audience
- Wolfgang Iser
What is a narrative?
- The representation of a story
- Two main components:
- the story
- narrative discourse
What is narrative discourse?
- the way which a story is told
- The expression rather than context
- How the narrative is recounted: Eg.
- syntax/ diction
- narrative position
- style/ tone
- genre
Who is the narrator?
- One who tells
- a tool, devised by the implied author, to narrate the story
What is plot?
the arrangement and order of events into a story
What is a story?
- what is recounted in a narrative
- What happens, to whom, where
What is story time?
the time period covered by the events recounted
What is syntax?
the ordering of the presentation of constituent story units of the narrative (characters, events, settings)
What is a focaliser?
- who sees and perceives/ experiences
- Bal: the relation between the vision and that which is ‘seen’
- Internal focalisation:
- direct correlation from the narrator and the character
- shown the perspective of any character within the story
- External focalisation:
- narrator looking down or at what is happening
- separate to the events”
What is characterisation?
- techniques used in a narrative to create a character
- Direct:
- when you are directly told about a character
- indirect:
- action, speech, environment”
What is metafiction?
- comments on the fictionality and/ or constructedness of the narrative
- the narrative moment when a text refers to, emphasises, takes view on it’s own production or status as fiction”
What is metanarrative?
- the grand narrative
- recurring and culturally used plot structure (e.g. the love triangle)
- Also can refer to an overarching pattern that accounts for and finds a place for smaller-scale narratives (life as a journey)
What is quotation?
- the dialogue within characters or direct quoting from an outside text that influences the text
- direct and shape the way the text is interpreted or story unfolds
What is intertextuality?
- reusing of specific themes, characters or aspects of a hypertext (pretext) into a new textual form or context (hypotext)
- Julia Kristeva
- spectrum of textual borrowing or alliance which challenges preconceived expectations and fills in gaps
- Genette 5 types of ‘transtextuality’
- architextuality (text and genre)”
What is an addresse?
close relationship with the reader due to direct
What is an analepsis?
- flashback or retrospective
What is a prolepsis?
flashforward
Who is the narratee?
the entity addressed by the narrator
What is a text?
- an embodied narrative
- something that can be interpreted
