introduction fiction

Question 1

one of the earliest manuscripts?

Answer 1

tale of the magician 4000-3000 BC

Question 2

criticisms of the “tale of the magician”

Answer 2

no plot
no believable characters or situations
no chronological order

Question 3

620 BC

Answer 3

Aesop: wrote moralistic stories about animals

Question 4

Aesop’s stories

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the boy who cried wolf

the hair in the tortoise

the ant and the grasshopper

the ghost with the golden eggs

Question 5

homers iliad:

Answer 5

Odysseus goes on an epic journey and joins a supernatural war

Question 6

virgil lived between

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70 BC - 19 BC

Question 7

Virgil story

Answer 7

12 volume poem

exploits of Aeneas, virtuous hero, man of turmoil

the sacking of troy, the machination of Gods

Question 8

1001 Arabian Nights

Answer 8

10th & 14th Centuries

Shaharia Zada volunteered to marry a murdering sultan, but she made such stories that he kept her life after her “1001 Arabian Nights”

Question 9

why did the 1001 Arabian night not push narrative further?

Answer 9

the Decameron was still episodic in nature

Question 10

Canterbury Tales

Answer 10

narrative framed work in the vernacular

Question 11

the English novel form took root in…

Answer 11

Richardson, Dickens, and Mary Shelly

Question 12

Dickens:

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orphans, prostitutes, hypocrites that all resided in English society

Question 13

Anna Kerenina

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Russia’s writer that mirrored the writing style of England at the time

Question 14

what did the novel form in Literature

Answer 14

a codified narrative that would result to the “short story”

Question 15

short story:

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a narrative which carries its main character a conflict to climax and a denouement.

Unlike the novel, however, it is brief, with only one crisis, a few characters, and a single impression/purpose

Question 16

early American authors such as (blank) were masters of the short story

Answer 16

Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe

Question 17

Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

Answer 17

fantasy and humor, fine character portrayal and social critisism

Question 18

what negatively showed for Hawthorne

Answer 18

his ancestor oversaw he Salem Witch Trails

also his concern regarding the sins of the puritans

Question 19

transcedentalism

Answer 19

personal relationship with God but man is divine in his own right

Question 20

Edgar Allen Poe

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Pit and the pendulum, Cask of a montiotto, tell tale heart

Question 21

prodigal son is supposed to be translated to the

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wasteful son

Question 22

jesus told the story in response…

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to criticism of Jesus eating with sinners

Question 23

allegory:

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story with a second meaning

Question 24

allegorical level of story:

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the redemption of humanity by following God’s second chance

Question 25

the older son is the

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foil to the father

Question 26

flat character

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do not chance throughout the course of the work

Question 27

round character

Answer 27

a key character in the fiction who is met with the conflict (or even creatd the conflict) and is changed by it

Question 28

a dynamic character

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a character who goes through an inner change

Question 29

Irony in “the lottery”

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lottery’s are supposed to be a prize

the setting and familiarity in the story does not set up what ends up happening

Question 30

willing suspension of disbelief

Answer 30

the reader will accept that which does not make sense based on the readers experience

Question 31

17th and 18th century:

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men became rationalists

Question 32

cant says man has two natures

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feels tastes a seeing

emotional, anger, happiness, sadness