Fiction test two

Question 1

Batard author

Answer 1

Jack London

Question 2

Batard POV

Answer 2

3rd person editoral

Question 3

Batard Consciousness

Answer 3

Free indirect discourse

Question 4

Batard characters

Answer 4

Leclere=static
Batard
Timothy Brown

Question 5

Batard plot

Answer 5

Batard & Leclere are vicious counterparts. Although Batard inherited his depravity from his parents, Leclere molded Batard to his own selfish design & fed his wickedness.

Both hate each other but refuse to separate. One day, Batard tries to kill Leclere, but Leclere chokes him & calls other dogs on him. Batard’s hind legs are broken and Leclere whips him. Then Leclere shields Batard from the dogs with his own body. Surgeon heals them.

Leclere plays harmonica & it upsets Batard; Batard’s hatred for him grows.

“Black Leclere” is believed to have killed Timothy Brown; Leclere claims it was the Indians. Jury sentences him to death & Leclere’s last wish is to have his money given to the church & to have Batard hanged first.

Leclere is on the noose when the storekeeper announces that the Indians have shot people. Everyone rushes and leaves Leclere tied to noose until they get back. While they’re gone Batard pushes the box so Leclere hangs & dies. Webster Shaw finds Batard and shoots him

Question 6

Batard themes

Answer 6

Naturalism

Abusive Relationships
Batard lashed out when someone tried to pet him because he has never been shown kindness; people affected by abuse have trouble comprehending what a good, healthy relationship looks like.

Question 7

Batard literary elements

Answer 7

Sharp, harsh diction
Hostile, antagonistic mood
Objective tone?

Question 8

The yellow wallpaper author

Answer 8

Charlotte Perkins Stetson

Question 9

The yellow wallpaper POV

Answer 9

1st person

Question 10

The yellow wallpaper cousiness

Answer 10

Interior monologue

Question 11

The yellow wallpaper characters

Answer 11

Narrator (wife)
John (husband)
Practical physician that undermines wife’s feelings

Question 12

The yellow wallpaper plot

Answer 12

TYWP tells the story of a young woman’s gradual descent into psychosis.

John is a doctor who does not believe that his wife is sick. The men dismiss her mental health struggles and just tell her to rest/take tonics.

To distract herself she talks about her house and the garden, then complains about how John seeks to control her thoughts and how she is angry with him. “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction”.

She begins to obsess about the yellow wallpaper in their room.

Question 13

Themes the yellow paper

Answer 13

Mental health

right to autonomy and self identity

Question 14

Garlic in fiction author

Answer 14

Shirley Jackson

Question 15

Garlic in fiction POV

Answer 15

1st Person

Question 16

Garlic in fiction cousiness

Answer 16

Interior monologue

Question 17

Garlic in ficition characters

Answer 17

Narrator

Question 18

Garlic in fiction plot

Answer 18

A writer dumps their entire being onto the page, leaving it at the mercy of an unknown reader who will either validate or scorn them. This relationship is very one-sided as little effort is required on the reader’s part.

The job of a writer is arduous and exhaustive, they must work hard to keep readers interested

Garlic in fiction accents writing in the same fashion a meal is seasoned, to accent & emphasize

Talks about the importance of symbols; however, using too many symbols is ineffective & “overwhelms the flavor of a passage”

Question 19

Garlic in fiction theme

Answer 19

The attributes of characters live on beyond the page

Question 20

Garlic in fiction literary elements

Answer 20

Condescending tone
She refers to the hypothetical reader as a “creature” and “clod” who is the picture of comfort and indolence. Everything is perfectly within their reach, their worst hardship being the predicament of too many options.

Question 21

Discourse level

Answer 21

The set of narrative strategies by which a story achieves its effect on a reader; the authorial choices (in language, structure, content, etc.) that communicate the imagined events of a story to the reader.

Question 22

Story level

Answer 22

The perceived content or events of story, considered as though they were

Question 23

Proairetic code

Answer 23

Elements of a story designed to generate tension through anticipation, the reader’s desire to find out what will happen in this world (e.g. in a romance
story: will they get married in the end?)

Question 24

Hermeneutic code

Answer 24

Elements of a story designed to generate tension through suspense, the reader’s desire to understand the story world (e.g. in a mystery story: who
committed the murder? How do we solve the crime?)

Question 25

Gothic fiction

Answer 25

A common genre of proto-horror fiction, originating in 18th-century Enlightenment culture, that may include elements of the supernatural, of
sexuality, power, madness/desire/irrationality, and the supernatural. Gothic fiction typically aims to explore frightening or uncontrolled aspects
of human psychology (either individual or group/social) by projecting interior experience outward into concrete scary phenomena, like monsters, ghosts,
serial killers, etc. It is typically very concerned with both place/space (inside vs. outside) and time (past vs. present)

Question 26

Mood/atmosphere

Answer 26

The emotional aura permeating a fictional scene, usually established by a combination of setting, imagery and verbal style (not necessarily the events of the plot!)

Question 27

Style

Answer 27

The sum total of discourse-level effects of the author’s structural language choices, including diction (word choice), syntax, use of dialect, register, etc.

Question 28

Tone

Answer 28

The implied attitude of the SPEAKER OR NARRATOR toward the events being narrated

Question 29

Dicition

Answer 29

Word or vocab

Question 30

The yellow wallpaper has both?

Answer 30

Proietic and hermutric tension

Question 31

Symbol

Answer 31

A concrete physical part of a story (person, place, color, object) that suggests or evokes associations with concepts beyond its literal meaning

Question 32

Simile

Answer 32

A rhetorical figure that describes something by means of a direct comparison using “like” or “as” (“Her collarbone was like a piece of dented metal…”)

Question 33

Metaphor

Answer 33

A rhetorical figure that describes something by means of a direct comparison without “like” or “as” (“My mind was a whirlpool, a tempest”)

Question 34

Big Momma written by

Answer 34

Joyce carol oates

Question 35

POV

Answer 35

3rd person editoral, unreliable narrotor

Question 36

Plot big momma

Answer 36

Violet is a 13 year old girl who is trying to fit in, since her and her single mom had to move to a hotel because of Wells Fargo job moving her location of work, she is an only child and has no dad, the mom freaked out when violent started to lie because there was reports of missing kids and pets in the area

Violet was originally getting bullied and felt alone and isolated until she met Rita Mae, and Mr. closie who would offer her ride homes everyday

Mr.closie was also a single parent with alot of kids and all were excitied and thought he was the best dad in the world

Mr. closie winked at violet and kept telling her he wish he could adopt her and he would stroke the nape of her neck like a cat

Mr cloise one day asked if violet asked wanted to finally meet their pet, big momma which was a big snake violet got scared and went home and had closure with her mom and expressed her hatred for her

Violet went back to the closies and forgot that today was BIG MOMMAS feeding day, she put two and two together and realized that all the missing kids and pets were because of big moma since she requires her feedings wrong

Mr closie drugs her with a smoothie and she is aten by BIG momma