P1, terms and techniques

Question 1

define narrator

Answer 1

narrator is a fictional individual telling the story

Question 2

define story world

Answer 2

story world is a fictional world shaped and framed by narrative

Question 3

what is pov

Answer 3

pov is the perspective(s) used in a text through which a version of reality is presented

Question 4

define genre

Answer 4

genre is a way of grouping texts based on expected and shared conventions

Question 5

define speech and thought presentation

Answer 5

speech and thought presentation is the ways in which a characters speech and thought are shown through varying degrees of narrator control

Question 6

what question should you always be thinking when reading ahmt

Answer 6

in what ways does atwood present this imagined world to us and why are those ways important in understanding the story

Question 7

what is an imagined world

Answer 7

an imagined world is narratives that project a particular pov and present characters times and places in striking ways

Question 8

define narrative

Answer 8

narrative is a type of text or discourse that functions to tell a series of events

Question 9

define register

Answer 9

register is a style of language that is associated with a particular situation of use - could be written or spoken

Question 10

define representation

Answer 10

representation is how experiences, values and ideas are re-presented to readers, listeners and viewers through language- influencing their way of seeing the world

Question 11

define literariness

Answer 11

literariness is the degree to which a text displays qualities that mean people see it as literary and as literature