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Juxtaposition

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relationship between events

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Protagonist

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hero/main character of the story

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Antagonist

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Character against the protagonist

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Static character

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doesn’t change

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Dynamic

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character that changes over time

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flat

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“one note” few sides

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Rounded

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Complex, 3D, many sides of people

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Omniscient narrator

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3rd person, knows everything, sees into the minds of all characters

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Limited omniscient narrator

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3rd person, enter the mind of 1 or 2 characters

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Objective narrator

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3rd person, detached perspective, report what can be seen or heard, bystander, doesn’t have any judgment.

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1st person narrator

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participant of the story, unreliable (children or older people, convince us of stg, speaks to you)

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Setting

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time and place

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Atmosphere

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mood of the story, it fosters the reader’s expectations

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tone

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author’s attitude towards his subject

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voice

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The way the author uses the narrator’s voice in a certain style (comedy, drama, irony, tragedy, serious

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style

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The way a writer uses language (plain, ornate, colloquial, formal) (irony, heavy reliance on adjectives, metaphors)

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Diction

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author’s choice of words

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Archetypes

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recurring characters (universal, ex: hero, symbol of a rose=love), events, symbols

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Theme

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Unifying idea that runs through the story

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Moral

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Unitary, singular, and directed at personal behaviour or belief

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Formalist

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all elements tied in one theme

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Post-structuralists

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Multiplicity of themes or readings

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Different types of characterization

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1- direct : telling
2- indirect : showing

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Parallels

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can be made between 2 characters

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Poetic justice

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good and virtuous: rewarded
Bad and vicious: punished

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Unity of effect

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A story is so short that every word and details are important to create an effect on the reader

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Frame narrative

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A story within a story

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Short story

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Reading that can be done in one sitting

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Precursors of the short story

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Chaucer (Canterbury tales)
Boccaccio (The Decameron)

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satire

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Irony

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Narrative tension

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The suspense of not knowing what happens next in the story. It’s what sustains the reader’s interest and keeps them reading

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Allegory

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The story has a second meaning (extended metaphor)

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work

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Metaphor

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Comparison between 2 things

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Simile

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Comparison between 2 things with the words: like, as, such as

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Symbol

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Object that represents stg else

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Foreshadowing

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Indications/clues that indicates of a future event

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literary allusion

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Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work of art in another work of literature

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Epiphany

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Flash of insight, lightbulb moment

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Verbal irony

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“sarcasm” use of words

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Situational irony

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Event or situation opposite of what you expect

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Dramatic irony

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Readers know stg that the character does not

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Structural irony

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The outcome of a situation is contrary to what is expected or intended

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Locus amoenus

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An idyllic place/landscape
Quiet, comfortable

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Synecdoche

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a part to represent a whole

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Coming-of-age/Bildungsroman

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Growth of the protagonist child to an adult
Spiritual growing
Modernism

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Quest motif

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Hero embarks on an adventure to achieve a specific goal, often facing challenges and obstacles on his way

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Archetype

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Type that is embodied by the character is experienced as universal truth

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Stereotypical

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type is borrowed directly from everyday life and repeats certain lazy and inaccurate habits of generalization

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Hero’s journey

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-call: hero summoned to go on a quest
-Difficulties along the way
-treasure
-transformation of a hero
Separation-initiation-return

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Romanticism

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Perrault, Grimms, Irving, Hawthorne, Poe
-Sublime, emotion, nature
-individual vs society

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Realism

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-James, Crane, Bierce
-represents life as it already is
-ordinary/low-life characters
Human behaviour: determined by heredity and/or environment

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Naturalism

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-Freud, Marx, Darwin, Comte
-emphasis on harsh aspects of life
-determinism
-human behaviour: forces beyond their control (nature, heredity, social forces)
-pessimism about human behaviour
-low socio-economical characters

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Modernism

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-After WW1
-Woolf, Joyce, Darwin, Marx, Freud
-Make it new
-rejection of conventional+ traditional institutions
-Stream of consciousness
-shift of povs
-open endings
-hedonism, cynical, despair
-absence of plot
-writes about nothing

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Post-modernism

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-After WWII
-Literature: absurd, antihero, antinovel, beat writers, concrete poetry, metafiction, new novel

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Impressionism

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Subjective/highly personal style of writing
colour, light and movement

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Contribution of Poe

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Unity of effect, invention of science fiction

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Contribution of Virginia Woolf

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Writes about small things
Stream of consciousness (interior monologue)

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Contributions of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Uses older material in a new way + uses conventions in more effective way s or went beyond them

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Contribution of Ambrose Bierce

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Realist approach + romantic passages

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Another word to say: story

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Narrative

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Twist

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Unexpected development/ending

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