Exam 2 Flashcards
ENL 200
Who wrote “Nice and Mild”?
Gunnhild Oyehaug
Gunnhild Oyehaug wrote what story?
Nice and Mild
Who wrote “Airplane Mode”?
Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani wrote what story?
Airplane Mode
Who wrote “The Transit of Venus”?
Aurelie Sheehan
Aurelie Sheehan wrote what story?
“The Transit of Venus”
What is a Setting?
The times and places in which a story unfolds, and the norms and expectations that are associated with that time and place
What is Point of View?
The reader’s perspective on the events of the narrative.
What is Third Person P.O.V
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
What are the types of Third person Narratives?
- Third Person Omniscient
- Third Person Limited
- Third Person Objective
What is Third Person Omniscient?
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.
What is Third Person Limited?
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.
What is Third Person Objective?
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.
What is Second Person Point of View?
The Point of View where you, the reader, are the main character, having the experiences described.
What is First Person Point of View?
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
What are examples of Reasoning in a First Person Narrative?
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.
What is Reliability in a First Person Narrative?
Whether or not we can trust the narrator to tell the truth, since they could be lying to us or themselves.
What is revealed through the Reasoning and Reliability of a First Person Narrator?
Places in a story where the narrator misses, misidentifies, incorrectly characterizes or describes, misinterprets, aspects of the story
What is Lacunae?
Conspicuous gaps displayed through information that a First Person Narrator might miss.
What is Narrative Structure?
How the chronology of events in a story are manipulated.
How many “Operations” are in Narrative Structure
Five
What are the different Operations of Narrative Structure?
- Speed up
- Slow Down
- Flashback
- Flash Forward
- Digression
How can time be sped up in a story?
- Summarizing Events
- Skipping Events
How can you slow down time in a story?
Explaining a particular event in great detail, (The hands in “The Transit of Venus”, for example.)
