introduction fiction Flashcards

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one of the earliest manuscripts?

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tale of the magician 4000-3000 BC

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criticisms of the “tale of the magician”

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no plot
no believable characters or situations
no chronological order

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620 BC

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Aesop: wrote moralistic stories about animals

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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

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5
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homers iliad:

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Odysseus goes on an epic journey and joins a supernatural war

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virgil lived between

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70 BC - 19 BC

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Virgil story

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12 volume poem

exploits of Aeneas, virtuous hero, man of turmoil

the sacking of troy, the machination of Gods

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1001 Arabian Nights

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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”

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why did the 1001 Arabian night not push narrative further?

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the Decameron was still episodic in nature

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Canterbury Tales

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narrative framed work in the vernacular

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the English novel form took root in…

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Richardson, Dickens, and Mary Shelly

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Dickens:

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orphans, prostitutes, hypocrites that all resided in English society

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Anna Kerenina

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

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what did the novel form in Literature

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

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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

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16
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early American authors such as (blank) were masters of the short story

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Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe

17
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Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

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fantasy and humor, fine character portrayal and social critisism

18
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what negatively showed for Hawthorne

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his ancestor oversaw he Salem Witch Trails

also his concern regarding the sins of the puritans

19
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transcedentalism

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

20
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Edgar Allen Poe

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

21
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prodigal son is supposed to be translated to the

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wasteful son

22
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jesus told the story in response…

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to criticism of Jesus eating with sinners

23
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allegory:

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story with a second meaning

24
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allegorical level of story:

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the redemption of humanity by following God’s second chance

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the older son is the
foil to the father
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flat character
do not chance throughout the course of the work
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round character
a key character in the fiction who is met with the conflict (or even creatd the conflict) and is changed by it
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a dynamic character
a character who goes through an inner change
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Irony in "the lottery"
lottery's are supposed to be a prize the setting and familiarity in the story does not set up what ends up happening
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willing suspension of disbelief
the reader will accept that which does not make sense based on the readers experience
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17th and 18th century:
men became rationalists
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cant says man has two natures
feels tastes a seeing emotional, anger, happiness, sadness