Final Review Flashcards
Psychoanalytic
Origins of the unconscious of a character, author, society, or story.
Archetypal
Recurring image, character, plot, theme, etc.
Biblical/Relgious
Religious symbolism and value are crucial to the plot, themes, characters, etc.
Bio-centric critique science critical theory
Deals with the relationship between human and the natural world
Revisionist
To refresh an old story with modern ideas
Feminist Critique
Who has the power - men or women or equal?
Biographical Critique
The author’s life is very important in understanding a piece of literature
Historical Critique
Literature is a products of a specific time and place
Mythological Critque
References to Greek and world Mythology
Family/home critique
What is the “right” version of a family?
Socio-Economic Critique (Marxist)
Who has the power? Is money the key to power and authority?
Reader’s response review
Summarizing, clarifying, rating, predicting the text
Phenomenology/ Cultural
How people living in specific societies relate to their existences
Gender/Queer Theory
Are heterosexuals treated as “the norm?”
New Criticism
Acts like a review but focuses on a works repetitions of symbols, images and rhythms
Postcolonial
Investigates relationships between colonizer and colonized
Formalist/Structuralist
Analyze the structure and rhetoric of a novel and whit it was written that way
Round Character
Characters that are fully developed and multi-dimensional
Dynamic Chracters
Characters that develop through the course of the story
Flat Characters
Characters that are based solely on one characteristics
Static Characters
Characters that do NOT develop throughout the story
Foil Characters
A character who is the opposite of another character used to shed light upon the character of the latter.
Catalyst
A character (or event) that starts a chain of events. A catalyst is the first domino to fall and hit the other dominoes
Literary Allusion
A Writer’s comparison of his or her character to characters in other well-known works of literature.
Ambivalent
Having mixed feelings or contradictory
Malevolent
having or showing a wish to do evil to others
Despondent
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
Elegiac
mournful or sad
Sardonic
Grimly mocking or cynical
Insipid
lacking vigor or interest
Undaunted
Not intimidated or discouraged
Unwieldy
No readily handled or manages in use or action
What is a Compound Sentence
1 independent clause + a conjunction + 1 other independent clause
