Quiz 1 Terms

Question 0

Define literature

Answer 0

A human means of bringing about a manageable collaboration between possible worlds or cultures and represented world or cultures primarily through the manipulation of language

Question 1

Definition of fiction

Answer 1

Literature whose capability of disclosing truths of human nature is used primarily upon the world of possibility as generated by realities of imagination and relation to represent worlds.

Question 2

Define narrative

Answer 2

The literary glue that binds the discordant contingencies of our life and lives together in some coherent fashion through the interplay of Context, conspiracy, casuistry and character as they are developed over time

Question 3

Define Myth

Answer 3

Complex of narratives that dramatizes the World vision and historical sense of a people or culture reducing centuries of experience into constellation of compelling metaphors

Question 4

Define archetype

Answer 4

A plot or character image that is shaped by repeated historical and cross-cultural experience that gets expressed in current Myths, religion, dreams, fantasies, and literature

Question 5

Define culture

Answer 5

The human means of interpreting and communicating it’s experience of simultaneously accepting and creating a world that is both undefined and, at the same time, available to consciousness

Question 6

What is a flat character

Answer 6

An immediately recognizable character, usually minor, who is one dimensional, and thus does not change much in the course of a story

Question 7

What is a stock character?

Answer 7

Embodies one or two qualities, or traits that can be readily described in summary or psychologically complex; usually minor rather than major characters

Question 8

Define conflict

Answer 8

Conflict is inevitable and desirable result of interaction between differences created by the human agony of being both individual and social. Humans may respond to this dilemma by fighting, fleeing or negotiating!

Question 9

Define round character

Answer 9

Complex characters who often display the consistencies and internal conflicts found in most real people. They’re multi dimensional with intellectual and emotional depth and have the capacity to grow and change

Question 10

Define foil character

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A character whose behavior and values contrast with those of the main character in order to highlight the distinctive qualities of that character.

Question 11

Define theme

Answer 11

The central meaning or dominant ideas or focus of a literary work

Question 12

Define atmosphere

Answer 12

Mood. Usually foreshadows action

Question 13

Define characterization

Answer 13

A specific perceptual orientation derived from specific cumulative acts of self-determination that gives to the life of each character a coherent, distinctive, and deliberate theme. We come to rely on the theme as that which sets the character apart and which enables us to grab something of that characters intentionality and all his/her interactions

Question 14

Define foreshadowing

Answer 14

The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later in the story

Question 15

Define flashback

Answer 15

Narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader or audience member about events that took place before the opening scene of a work

Question 16

Define irony

Answer 16

A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy

Question 17

Define plot

Answer 17

All of the events in a story particularly rendered toward The achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect or general theme

Question 18

define protagonist

Answer 18

The main character of a narrative; a works central character who engages the reader’s empathy and interest

Question 19

Define point of view

Answer 19

The vantage point from which the author presents the actions of the story

Question 20

Define narrator

Answer 20

The teller of a story

Question 21

Define symbol

Answer 21

And object, person, place event, or action that represents something else in addition to itself

Question 22

Define metaphor

Answer 22

A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

Question 23

Define assumption/cultural bias

Answer 23

Information regarding a culture’s shared values and beliefs is automatically sustained in a person’s real world

Question 24

Define assumptions/social relations

Answer 24

Patterns of interpersonal relations such as marriage, etc.

Question 25

Define assumptions/life Way

Answer 25

A viable combination of social relations and cultural bias

Question 26

Define assumptions/group

Answer 26

Extent to which an individual is incorporated into bounded units. Greater the incorporation the more individual choice is subject to a groups determination

Question 27

Define assumptions/grid

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Denotes the degree to which an individual’s life is circumscribed by externally imposed prescriptions. The more Binding and extensive the scope of prescription, the less of life that is open to individual negotiation

Question 28

Define assumptions/5 lifeways

Answer 28

In competition for adherents. They are also dependent upon one another. Each lifeWay needs each of its rivals

A. To make up for deficiencies
B. to exploit
C. To define itself again

Question 29

(One of five lifeways) Egalitarian

Answer 29

1.Strong group boundaries, 2.minimal prescriptions, 3. lack internal role differentiation, 4. no individual authority to control others by virtue of position therefore internal conflict difficult to resolve, 5. Expulsion from group only way to govern factions Vying for control

Question 30

(5lifeways) Hierarchical

Answer 30

Strong group boundaries, binding prescriptions, individuals subject to control over members and socially imposed rules

Solutions to resolve conflict are upgrading, shifting,sideways downgrading, resegregating,
redefining,

exercise of authority and inequality justified because people seem to live more harmoniously

Question 31

(5lifeways) individualistic

Answer 31

Not bound by groups, not bound by prescribe roles, All boundaries are provisional and subject to negotiation, I literately free from controlled by others, was exert some control over others

Question 32

(5lifeways) fatalistic

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Not bound by group excluded, subject to binding prescriptions, individual autonomy restricted little choice about how they spend their time what they wear who they are with and what they eat

Question 33

(5lifeway) hermit

Answer 33

Not bound by group, as prescribed rolls, neither coercive nor manipulative social involvement, escapes social control refusing to control others or be controlled by others