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the historical time and place and social circumstances that create the world in which characters act and make choices

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Setting

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the social circumstances of a story often illuminate & provide insights into the meaning of a literary piece

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Setting

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landscape, scenery, room layout, buildings, etc

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Geographic location

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occupations/working conditions, way of life, way of talking/behaving, clothing, habits, attitudes, customs and beliefs, speech patterns, laws, the past/present/future

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Cultural backdrop/social context/time period

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rooms, buildings, cities, towns, villages, futuristic settings, etc

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Artificial environment

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tools, implements, gadgets, clothing/costumes, furniture

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Props

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authors describe light, shadow, colors, shapes, smells and sounds to create distinctive ____

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Moods

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can be described using emotion-based adjectives

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Moods

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analyzing the correlation between setting and character by considering the way characters respond to their environment and adjustments to changes in the setting

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Setting as a reflection of character

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if author gives details about a character’s favorite room, workplace, hideaway…the reader can infer certain traits to enhance character development

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Setting as a reflection of character

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have some universal aspect that is associated by most people with particular human experience and helps the reader understand the author’s theme
ex. the desert, the sea, underground, the garden, the maze, the castle

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Archetypal settings

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the process of presenting the different aspects of character and personality of someone in a novel or short story

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Characterization

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what they say (dialogue) and what they do/think (actions and internal monologue) are examples of what literary element

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Characterization

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the ____ tells a story from a certain ___ __ ____ and then develops the _____ of the person in the narrative

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narrator, point of view, character

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knows all the thoughts of all characters, so he/she may choose to describe a character explicitly

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Omniscient narrator

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does not control characterization in the narrative; but tells what he/she sees without recourse to the thoughts of any other character

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Limited narrator

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a narrator who is too young or guileless to understand true evil or the true motives of other characters

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Innocent eye or Naive observer

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a narrator whose motives are suspect and whose interpretation of events the reader should question

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Unreliable narrator

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the character that we like or with whom we sympathize; the main character; the point of view character

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Protagonist

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the enemy of the protagonist

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Antagonist

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the author concentrates on a SINGLE dominant trait to the exclusion or reduction of others; these are usually minor characters

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Flat character

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the author presents a couple, fully rounded personality; these are usually major characters

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Round character

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this character changes little over the course of a narrative; is revealed by the action but is not changed by the action (more prevalent in shorter fiction)

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Static character

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this character changes in response to the actions through he/she passes; more prevalent in longer works of fiction

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Dynamic character

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this character embodies a certain kind of universal human experience
ex. Femme fatale, siren, the old witch, damsel in distress, mentor

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Archetypal character

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the process of the resolution of conflict

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Plot

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usually involves the outline of the clearly connected and independent actions undertaken by characters

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Plot

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  • person vs. person
  • person vs. inner self
  • person vs. society
  • person vs. fate
  • person vs. nature
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Traditional conflicts found in literature

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the journey of the hero in its numerous manifestations from the basis of many plots in literature

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Archetypal concepts of plot

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analysis of “quest” structures that are useful in linking plot to theme
ex. the quest for identity, journey in search of knowledge, quest for vengeance, the quest to rid the land of danger

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Archetypal concepts of plot

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usually applied to the framework: the elements of arguments in the plot or storyline in fiction or outline of other literary works

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Narrative structure

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used to indicate the nonstructural elements of a work: metaphor, imagery, diction, tone, rhyme, meter

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Narrative texture

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stories unfolding quick or violent action vs. extended discussion of ideas where very little action takes place

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Narrative pace

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the central, underlying, and controlling idea of a literary work

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Theme

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abstract concept that may be represented by a character, actions or images in a literary work

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Theme

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generalization about human conduct that may be serious or comic, profound or unsurprising (expressed in a full sentence NOT one word, the conflict, or stated in the text)

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Theme

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How to ascertain the theme…

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  1. Understand the plot, characterization and conflict, imagery and author’s tone
  2. Identify the subject in one word
  3. Explain in two sentences what the author says about the subject.
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aka first-person because of pronouns like (I, me, we, us, our) are used to tell the story

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Participant POV

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the story is told and is about the narrator who is a character in the story

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Major character narrator

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the narrator tells a story that focuses on someone else, but the narrator is still a character in the story

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Minor character narrator

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character telling the story might be a child or developmentally disabled individual

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Innocent Eye Narrator

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contrast between perceives and what the reader understand may produce and ironic effect

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Innocent Eye Narrator

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a narrative method in modern fiction in which the author tells the story through an unbroken flow of thought and awareness

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Stream of Consciousness (interior monologue)

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the first person narrator can approach other fictional characters, can be the eyewitness (observing what others do/say), and can summarize events and retreat from a scene its significance

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Participant narrator

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the ____ _____ point of view allows the reader to be discerning; the reader must determine whether
the narrator is trustworthy

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First person

46
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also called third-person point of view because third-person pronouns (he, him, she, her, they, them) are used to tell the story; Can be subdivided into three types

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Nonparticipant point of view

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the author can enter the minds of all characters

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Omniscient narrator

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the author limits his omniscience to the minds of a few of the characters or to the mind of a single character

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Selective (limited) omniscient narrator

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allows freedom in that the narrator knows all there is to know about the characters, externally and internally; describes what the characters are feeling and thinking

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Omniscient point of view

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the narrator may shift focus from the close view to the larger perspective

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Omniscient point of view

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the narrator may comment on events and characters, explaining the significance to the reader; may offer multiple perspectives on the same event

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Omniscient point of view

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the author knows everything about a SPECIFIC character; story is portrayed through the eyes of one character and is a sense of distance from other characters

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Limited Omniscient point of view

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approximates conditions of life in that only one character’s thoughts are known; story is more unified through the use of this pov

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Limited Omniscient point of view

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allows inferences to be made by readers through their observance of dialogue and external action

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Objective point of view

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readers not directly influences by this author’s statements; readers’ perceptions are influenced more subtly by the author’s section of diction and details

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Objective point of view

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the speaker’s attitude toward the subject which is revealed by the words he/she chooses (diction); to misinterpret this you misinterpret meanings of passages

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Tone

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the understanding of word choice, details, imagery, and language all contribute to the understanding of ____

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Tone

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appeals to emotion

ex. upset, joyful, happy, afraid

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Emotional tone

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emphasizes emotion over reason

ex. sweet, sympathetic, zealous (passionate, dedicated)

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Sentimental tone

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becomes emotional to the point of being laughable

ex. dramatic, sarcastic, seductive

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Lugubrious tone

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how complex a speaker's attitude might be, clues that indicate shift:
key words (however, nevertheless, although); punctuation (semicolons, dashes, periods); changes in line/stanza or sentence length; sharp contrasts in diction
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Shift in tone

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