glossary terms

Question 1

intertextuality

Answer 1

the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other

Question 2

epistolary novel

Answer 2

a novel that is written in the form of letters

Question 3

bildungsroman

Answer 3

a novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education

Question 4

roman a clef

Answer 4

a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names (with a key)

Question 5

protagonist

Answer 5

the main character of a narrative

Question 6

first person narrative

Answer 6

a mode whereby a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves

Question 7

authorial intervention

Answer 7

the voices used by authors when they seemingly speak for themselves in a book

Question 8

stream of consciousness

Answer 8

a technique which takes the reader inside a character’s mind to reveal both consciousness and unconscious thoughts to tell a story. often this is represented with a lack of punctuation or structure

Question 9

interior monologue

Answer 9

a type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character’s head, often with very little other commentary or description

Question 10

verisimilitude

Answer 10

seeming true and real. verisimilitude ensures that even a fantasy must be rooted in reality, which means that events should be plausible so readers consider them credible enough to be able to relate them somehow to their experiences of real life

Question 11

epilogue

Answer 11

a final section of a text which is used to conclude the whole