Finals

Question 1

Individuals who populate the story (Protagonist/Antagonists)

Answer 1

Characters

Question 2

Time and place in which the story occurs. Can influence mood, context and events of the narrative.

Answer 2

Setting

Question 3

Sequence of events that make up the story. (Usually; Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

Answer 3

Plot

Question 4

Central struggle or problem that drives the narrative

Answer 4

Conflict

Question 5

Underlying message or main idea of the narrative

Answer 5

Theme

Question 6

Perspective from which the story is told (1rst/ 2nd/ 3rd person)

Answer 6

Point of View

Question 7

Narrator’s attitude towards the subject of matter

Answer 7

Tone

Question 8

Author’s unique way of expressing themselves

Answer 8

Style

Question 9

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Pays great attention to the form of the literary work. 2 groups are most known for this approach.

Answer 9

Formalist Approach,
Russian Formalism and New Criticism.

Question 10

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Focuses on what makes the meaning possible and the possibilities open to the genre.

Answer 10

Structuralist Approach

Question 11

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Seeks to investigate common elements in all forms of “telling”

Answer 11

Narratologist approach

Question 12

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Decontextualizes the text. “No elements of a system of meaning has significance on its own, only as part of the system.”

Answer 12

Post-Structuralism

Question 13

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
They believe we need to understand the context of the author’s own society and their position within it as an individual and as an author.

Answer 13

Socio-Historical approach

Question 14

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Interpretation of a literary work is just as valuable as the work itself

Answer 14

Cultural Materialism & New Historicism Approach

Question 15

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Confronts readers and critics with the hidden or unstated implications of colonial and imperialist relations between lands and people when reading or interpreting literary work.

Answer 15

Post-Colonial Theory

Question 16

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
We cannot begin to read or understand a novel until we are clear as to what the genre of the novel is.

Answer 16

Generic Approach

Question 17

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
The more works you read of an author the more you get to know them and that allows a more in depth reading of their work.

Answer 17

Biographical approach

Question 18

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Analysis of the mental state of either the author, the characters or the readers.

Answer 18

Psychological & Psychoanalytical Approach

Question 19

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
They are interested in relating literary work to the societies they were written in. “Ideologies are all related to class positions and thus to material conditions and the struggle for their control.”

Answer 19

Marxist approach

Question 20

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
Living in a patriarchy influences and conditions the way books are written and read.

Answer 20

Feminist Approach

Question 21

Critical Approaches to Fiction:
It attempts to expose different sorts of concealed themes of gender or sexuality in literary works.

Answer 21

Queer Theory