Midterm Review- English Flashcards
Who wrote the short-story A&P?
John Updike
What year was A&P written in?
1961
What was the setting in A&P?
Grocery store
What are the main characters names in A&P?
Sammy, Queenie, Lengel
What is the protagonist in a story??
The main or central character in the story. Usually initiates the main action if the story, often in conflict with the antagonist.
What is the antagonist?
The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative. The antagonist may be another character, society itself, a force of nature, or even conflicting impulses within the protagonist.
What is an exposition?
The opening portion of a narrative. In the exposition the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, the author discloses other background information necessary for the reader to understand the events that follow.
What is conflict??
The central struggle between two or more forces in a story. Conflict generally occurs when some person or thing prevents the protagonist from achieving his or her goal.
What is complication?
The introduction of a significant development in the central conflict between characters (or between a character and his or her situation).
What is the climax?
The moment of greatest intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of a work.
What is a conclusion?
In plotting, the logical end or outcome of a unified plot shortly following the climax.
What is a flashback?
A scene relived in a characters memory.
What is foreshadowing?
An indication of events to come in a narrative.
What is plot?
The particular arrangement of actions, events and situations that unfold in a narrative. A plot is not merely the general story of a narrative but the authors artistic pattern made from parts of the narrative.
Who is the author of “A Rose for Emily”?
William Faulkner
When was “A Rose for Emily” written?
1931
Who are the main characters in “A Rose for Emily”?
Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Judge Stevens, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris
Who’s the author of “Sonnys Blues”?
James Baldwin
What is the setting in Sonny’s Blues?
Harlem in the 1950s
Who are the main characters in Sonny’s Blues?
Sonnys older brother and sonny
What is the main events in “Sonnys blues”?
The narrators child dies which brings him to write to his brother in prison. Telling him everything that happened to their family. After sonny gets out of prison he moves in with his brother and his wife and decided to be a musician, his bother doesn’t approve so he joins the navy and gets involved with drugs. After sonny gets back to Harlem him and his brother almost come to an understanding that Sonnys brother just wants what’s best for him and he’s worried about being a musician isn’t a stable job for him sonny doesn’t care he wants to play music. Sonny takes his brother to a night club where his band plays some nights and Sonnys brother watches him play for the first time.
What is total omniscience?
Point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in a story
What is limited or selective omniscience?
Point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all the characters.
What is point of view?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is character?
An imagined figure inhabiting a narrative or drama.
What is characterization?
The techniques a writer uses to create, reveal or develop the characters in a narrative.
What is a flat character?
A character that has only one outstanding trait
What is a round character?
A character who is three-dimensional. A well developed character that has more than a few traits.
What is a static character?
A character that does not change in any significant way in the narrative.
What is a dynamic character?
A character that changes in some significant way in the narrative
What is setting?
The time and place in the narrative or story.
Who wrote “The Storm”?
Kate Chopin
What is the setting of “The Storm”?
New Orleans in the late 1800s before during and after a harsh storm.
Who are the main characters in “The Storm”?
Bobinôt (father) Bibi (son) Sylvie (servant) Calixta (wife of bobinôt) Alcee (former lover of Calixta) Clarisse (wife of Alcee)
What is tone?
Whatever leads the reader to infer the authors attitude.
What is style?
All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work.
What is diction?
An authors choice of words in a narrative or story.
Who wrote “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”?
Ernest Hemingway
What is the setting of “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”?
A Cafe and a winery at night
Who are the main characters in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”?
Two waiters (one more relaxed and one in a rush) An old man that's deaf
