lit - fiction concepts

Question 1

genres of literature (3)

Answer 1

drama, poetry, fiction

Question 2

fiction and revolution?

Answer 2

Made the speech valuable, took away power to the elitists.

Question 3

What is the suspension of disbelief?

Answer 3

The tacit understanding that it isn’t real for enjoyment.
↳ allows you to relate to the characters and settings.

Question 4

setting

Answer 4

• The physical, sensuous World of work.
• place, social context, time
• What allows you to understand the characters.

Question 5

verisimilitude

Answer 5

Setting in a story that imitates a real life setting using the five senses.
↳ ↑ suspension disbelief, because it resembles a reality.

Question 6

What id the function of details?

Answer 6

The function of details is to add to the setting. ↑ details, ↑ suspension of disbelief, ↑ engrossed in the work.

Question 7

What is the relation between setting and the characters?

Answer 7

• Real beings react to the setting and change because of it.
  -The setting is flexible so the characters evolve (for the best or worst).

Question 8

Round characters

Answer 8

• Characters that are lifelike, they change with the setting.
• Complex: 2 and more quality traits.
• Inconsistent: They react differently to similar settings, as human beings, with the knowledge - they have access to in the moment it happens.
• Unpredictable: Inconsistent, and so, unpredictable. They react to the setting.

Question 9

flat characters

Answer 9

• Fonction: Exaggerate a trait so the reader notices what the writer is trying to denounce in society.
• Not lifelike.
• Predictable:walking stereotypes, caricatures.
• 1 to 2 character traits.
• Not developed enough for us to identify with them.
• Part of the setting → makes the characters evolve.
• Makes you realize you don’t want to be like them or demonstrate flaws in society.
• Ex: A miser: society likes generous people.

Question 10

arbitrary criterion

Answer 10

a characteristic that means nothing about you. Ex: beauty
criterion (sing.), criteria (plur.)

Question 11

Characterization techniques

Answer 11

literary devices that develops characters (makes them believable).
Ex: telling, showing (exams).

Question 12

Telling techniques

Answer 12

How the character is
The reader is told about the character
Ex: Sir W.E. is vain and rich, Ex: speaking badly to a worker, yelling, rude sayings.
Ex: Mrs. Bennet

Question 13

Showing techniques

Answer 13

thoughts, speech, actions
what the characters are like through what they say and external details (dress, bearing, looks)

Question 14

perspective or point of view

Answer 14

A particular attitude or way of considering a matter
general, specific

Question 15

denotation

Answer 15

literal definition, meaning, dictionary.

Question 16

connotation

Answer 16

ideas that go with words, (changes because of setting)

Question 17

ambivalence

Answer 17

The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Society creates ambivalence
(Flat characters don’t feel ambivalence, they don’t struggle.)

Question 18

patriarchy

Answer 18

Economic System: Unfair distribution of wealth in such a way that men becomes owners and women become possessions, heir.
↳ Makes a toxic competition between women based on superficial values and make them vain as Sir Walter Elliot.
↳ Makes marriage a form of prostitution; based on money, buisiness, objectify women.

Question 19

Hubris

Answer 19

Excessive arrogance that has many consequences.
↳ Blinds the person that suffers from it to the world that surrounds him.
↳ The person that suffers from hubris usually lacks empathy and compassion → dangerous.
Ex: Extremists have hubris since they think their religion is superior.
Ex: Colonizers have hubris since they think their culture is the best. It creates a gap between what you perceive and reality.

Question 20

pernicious

Answer 20

having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.Ex: Hubris is pernicious;
↳ Manipulator
↳ Religious people: they do kind things just to get into heaven.
↳ Patriarchy: Says it protects women when it controls them.

Question 21

narrators

Answer 21

It is not the Writer
Characters protects the autor, the text exists independently from the writer.
↳ Narrators are unreliable, limitations
↳ Not dishonest, they just don’t know the entire situation.
↳ Discover at the same as us.
↳ Biased, Influenced by emotions.
↳ the more involved, the more unreliable.
No narrator is 100% reliable → you want that, there is no story otherwise.

Question 22

personnification

Answer 22

↳ Giving traits to something to something not human.

Question 23

imagery

Answer 23

Literary devices
↳ More imagery, the more believable the story is.
↳ Uncountable

Question 24

what are the types of imagery? (6)

Answer 24

Visual → pertaining to the eye
Olfactory → the smell
Tactile → touch
auditory → hearing
gustatory → taste
Kinaesthetic → the sens of movement and bodily effort

Question 25

imagery in the exam

Answer 25

Analyze the atmosphere, what does it do to the characters.
↳ Use of adjectives