Metamorphosis

Question 1

Alienation

Answer 1

a feeling of not belonging.
This can be physical, mental, spiritual, political, social, or economic and often tends to be a combination of more than one of hear types.
Alienation is a driving force that pushes the human conscience to extremes.

Question 2

Expressionism

Answer 2

believes that the response of an individual is more important tan the object or situation that causes the response.

• portrays this inner reality through the use of symbolic rather than realistic characters.
• Used exaggeration, distortion, nightmarish imagery and fantasy.

Question 3

Surrealism

Answer 3

stresses the power of imagination and dreams over conscious control.

Question 4

Freudianism

Answer 4

believes that every human action is influenced by the unconscious mind.
-early experienced such as ones relationship with ones father have profound effect on the development of the unconscious.

Question 5

Extentislism

Answer 5

• emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice.
• Humans define their own meaning in life and try to make a rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe.
• Focuses on the question of human existence, and the feeling that there is no purpose or explanation at the core of existence.
• It hold that, as there is no God or any other transcendent force, the only way to counter this nothing nothingness (and hence to find meaning in life) is embracing existence.
• Thus, existentialism believes that individuals are entirely free and must take personal responsibility for themselves (although with this responsibility comes angst, a profound aguish or dread).
• It therefore emphasizes action, freedom and decision as a fundamental, and holds that the only way to rise above the essentially absurd condition of humanity (which is characterized by suffering and inevitable death) is exercising our personal freedom and choice

Question 6

Novella

Answer 6

a category of fiction known as a novella, novelette, or a short novel. Novellas are long and more complex than short stories but shorter and simpler than novels. Short stories usually contain one major conflict, focus on one major character, and develop one major theme, whereas novels present a much larger fictional world with many characters and episodes. The novella usually focuses on a limited number of characters, a relatively short period time, and a single chain of events.

Question 7

Eponym/Kafkaesque

Answer 7

• eponym is a word derived from the name of an actual or fictional character
• Kafkaesque is a nightmarish, horribly complicated situation that is surreal but realatable

Question 8

Allegory

Answer 8

a story in which characters, events, and settings symbolize abstract or moral concepts. Can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.

Question 9

Novella

Answer 9

story that is shorter than a novel but is more detailed than a short story

Question 10

Motif

Answer 10

reoccurring theme or idea

Question 11

Black Humor

Answer 11

form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic

Question 12

symbolism

Answer 12

use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Question 13

mood

Answer 13

envies certain feelings in readers through word choice and description

Question 14

Tone

Answer 14

the way the author expresses his attitude through his writing

Question 15

Epiphany

Answer 15

a literary work or section of work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation
-the “aha” moment

Question 16

Grotesque

Answer 16

comically distorted or ugly or repulsive my ugly or distorted

Question 17

anti hero

Answer 17

central character-someone who is flawed but we’re still rooting for

Question 18

foreshadowing

Answer 18

warning or indication of a future event in the writing

Question 19

in medias res

Answer 19

“In the middle of the action”

-beginning in the middle, start with the climax