lit - fiction concepts Flashcards
genres of literature (3)
drama, poetry, fiction
fiction and revolution?
Made the speech valuable, took away power to the elitists.
What is the suspension of disbelief?
The tacit understanding that it isn’t real for enjoyment.
↳ allows you to relate to the characters and settings.
setting
- The physical, sensuous World of work.
- place, social context, time
- What allows you to understand the characters.
verisimilitude
Setting in a story that imitates a real life setting using the five senses.
↳ ↑ suspension disbelief, because it resembles a reality.
What id the function of details?
The function of details is to add to the setting. ↑ details, ↑ suspension of disbelief, ↑ engrossed in the work.
What is the relation between setting and the characters?
- Real beings react to the setting and change because of it.
-The setting is flexible so the characters evolve (for the best or worst).
Round characters
- 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.
flat characters
- 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.
arbitrary criterion
a characteristic that means nothing about you. Ex: beauty
criterion (sing.), criteria (plur.)
Characterization techniques
literary devices that develops characters (makes them believable).
Ex: telling, showing (exams).
Telling techniques
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
Showing techniques
thoughts, speech, actions
what the characters are like through what they say and external details (dress, bearing, looks)
perspective or point of view
A particular attitude or way of considering a matter
general, specific
denotation
literal definition, meaning, dictionary.
connotation
ideas that go with words, (changes because of setting)
ambivalence
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.)
patriarchy
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.
Hubris
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.
pernicious
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.
narrators
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.
personnification
↳ Giving traits to something to something not human.
imagery
Literary devices
↳ More imagery, the more believable the story is.
↳ Uncountable
what are the types of imagery? (6)
Visual → pertaining to the eye
Olfactory → the smell
Tactile → touch
auditory → hearing
gustatory → taste
Kinaesthetic → the sens of movement and bodily effort
imagery in the exam
Analyze the atmosphere, what does it do to the characters.
↳ Use of adjectives
