Exam 2

Question 1

Who wrote “Nice and Mild”?

Answer 1

Gunnhild Oyehaug

Question 2

Gunnhild Oyehaug wrote what story?

Answer 2

Nice and Mild

Question 3

Who wrote “Airplane Mode”?

Answer 3

Raven Leilani

Question 4

Raven Leilani wrote what story?

Answer 4

Airplane Mode

Question 5

Who wrote “The Transit of Venus”?

Answer 5

Aurelie Sheehan

Question 6

Aurelie Sheehan wrote what story?

Answer 6

“The Transit of Venus”

Question 7

What is a Setting?

Answer 7

The times and places in which a story unfolds, and the norms and expectations that are associated with that time and place

Question 8

What is Point of View?

Answer 8

The reader’s perspective on the events of the narrative.

Question 9

What is Third Person P.O.V

Answer 9

The he/she/they perspective. The reader “watches” the events of the narrative unfold from without – and his held outside of them by the aforementioned pronouns

Question 10

What are the types of Third person Narratives?

Answer 10

• Third Person Omniscient
• Third Person Limited
• Third Person Objective

Question 11

What is Third Person Omniscient?

Answer 11

Stories told by an all-knowing “Eye of God” narrator, who can tell us everything that’s happening inside and outside of every character at any given time.

Question 12

What is Third Person Limited?

Answer 12

A third-person limited narrator can only tell us one particular character’s thoughts, can only describe a room as it’s seen through one particular character’s eyes, and so on.

Question 13

What is Third Person Objective?

Answer 13

In third-person objective narrative, the narrator only reports what can be observed empirically. Readers have to infer or intuit emotions, intentions, and so on, from the pure, unadorned facts.

Question 14

What is Second Person Point of View?

Answer 14

The Point of View where you, the reader, are the main character, having the experiences described.

Question 15

What is First Person Point of View?

Answer 15

Narrated by a character who speaks and identifies as “I” and who is usually directly involved in the action or events of the narrative – usually as the main character and protagonist

Question 16

What are examples of Reasoning in a First Person Narrative?

Answer 16

Why is the narrator telling this story? What motivates them? Is there something they want to get off their chest, something they want “people” to know or understand, something they want themselves to understand or believe.

Question 17

What is Reliability in a First Person Narrative?

Answer 17

Whether or not we can trust the narrator to tell the truth, since they could be lying to us or themselves.

Question 18

What is revealed through the Reasoning and Reliability of a First Person Narrator?

Answer 18

Places in a story where the narrator misses, misidentifies, incorrectly characterizes or describes, misinterprets, aspects of the story

Question 19

What is Lacunae?

Answer 19

Conspicuous gaps displayed through information that a First Person Narrator might miss.

Question 20

What is Narrative Structure?

Answer 20

How the chronology of events in a story are manipulated.

Question 21

How many “Operations” are in Narrative Structure

Answer 21

Five

Question 22

What are the different Operations of Narrative Structure?

Answer 22

• Speed up
• Slow Down
• Flashback
• Flash Forward
• Digression

Question 23

How can time be sped up in a story?

Answer 23

• Summarizing Events
• Skipping Events

Question 24

How can you slow down time in a story?

Answer 24

Explaining a particular event in great detail, (The hands in “The Transit of Venus”, for example.)

Question 25

What is a Flashback?

Answer 25

When the narrator takes time to recall an event that happened in the past

Question 26

What is a Flash Forward?

Answer 26

Where information is given in a story about events that will happen in the future.

Question 27

What is Digression?

Answer 27

When the story stops so the narrator – whether first or third person – can ramble on about something else.