Terms + definition -Final Exam

Question 1

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 1

Attribution of human emotion to things/objects that are not human

Question 2

Give 2 examples of pathetic fallacy in two of the stories we saw in class (after midterm)

Answer 2

Answers vary
Ex: In the Painted Door: “Angry little snakes”
Messages in Bottles: Sea creature tries to seduce the little girl.

Question 3

Georgic in literature

Answer 3

rural life/farm/labor topics
Ex:The Painted Door
Ann says that there will be chores for her to do

Question 4

Pastoral

Answer 4

Depiction of an idealized form of the Shepherd’s lifestyle - herding livestock around open areas of land

Question 5

Demon lover archetype

Answer 5

Figure in gothic literature who comes back to take away his unfaithful lover who has broken her promise to wait for him.

Question 6

Allegory

Answer 6

A story that has a hidden meaning.
Ex: The Demon lover: allegory of WWII trauma
Simple Recipes: allegory of immigration

Question 7

Modernism

Answer 7

-No plot
-shift of POVs
-Open endings
-Characters are unstable
-interior monologue (stream of consciousness)
Ex: The Painted Door: open ending, interior monologue, reject morality (adultery), loneliness+desperation are modernist themes

Question 8

Ghost story genre

Answer 8

-Presence of a ghost
-Setting is more modern (contemporary)
-A back story + reason why the ghost is present
-Psycho+spectral
-blurring between reality and madness or projection
Ex: The Demon Lover

Question 9

Who wrote the Painted Door?

Answer 9

Sinclair Ross

Question 10

Who wrote the Demon Lover

Answer 10

Elizabeth Bowen

Question 11

Types of imagery

Answer 11

Auditory (hearing)
Olfactory (smell)
Tactile (touch)
Gustatory (taste)
Abstract or conceptual (appeals to the intellect)
Kinetic (of or related to the motion of bodies)
Kinaesthetic (pertaining to feeling or imagining the sense of movement/or the making of motion)

Question 12

Synaesthesia

Answer 12

Blending of different sense impressions
Ex: The Demon Lover
Studies in the Park: «White shirt sparkling» « leather pumps glitering»

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

Comparison between two things with the words Like, as, such as

Question 14

Metaphor

Answer 14

Comparison between two things without the words

Question 15

Post-colonial literature

Answer 15

The term is applied most often to writings from Africa, the Indian sub-continent, the Caribbean, and other regions whose histories were marked by colonialism, anti-colonial movements, and subsequent transitions to a post-Independence modern society.

Question 16

Post-colonial theory

Answer 16

-theory is a lens in which we read a text
-looks at problematic cultural-political questions of national and ethnic identity, ‘otherness’, race, imperialism, and language, during and after the colonial periods.
-concepts of the center and the periphery (or margin) and the complex relationship between the two.
Stories: Vengeful Creditor + Studies in the Park

Question 17

Who wrote the short story Vengeful creditor

Answer 17

Chinua Achebe

Question 18

Who wrote the short story Studies in the Park?

Answer 18

Anita Desai

Question 19

Give Examples of imagery use in different short stories

Answer 19

The demon Lover: The depiction of the house
Studies in the Park: Depiction of Suno’s house + depiction of the Park

Question 20

Archetype

Answer 20

Symbol/character/setting/theme that is recurring in different times and places

Question 21

Trickster character

Answer 21

Complex character type known for trickery, bufoonery, crude behavior, but also a creator, culture hero
Ex: The one about coyote going west going: Coyote is a trickster character
The mother in borders: trickster character, she wants to change, make

Question 22

Post-modernism

Answer 22

-Collage/pastiche
-Mix of genres
- time distortion
-Allusions to art, tv shows
-refusal of grand narrative
-metafiction

Question 23

Metafiction

Answer 23

Fiction that comments on its own fictional status

Question 24

Liminal space

Answer 24

little space in between, threshold
Ex: Borders
Paintings in old lady’s hand= portal to the past

Question 25

Cultural hegemony

Answer 25

dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society

Question 26

symbol

Answer 26

has a literal meaning + abstract meaning )open to interpretation) (can occur once to have impact)

Question 27

Motif

Answer 27

Situation/idea/image/incident found in many different literary works –> elaborated into general theme (can occur many times)

Question 28

biculturalism

Answer 28

Coexistence of two dominant cultures in a society/country/region

Question 29

Multiculturalism

Answer 29

the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Question 30

Assimilation

Answer 30

the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

Question 31

Marginalization

Answer 31

the act of treating someone or something as if they are not important

Question 32

Who wrote Borders

Answer 32

Thomas King

Question 33

Who wrote The one about Coyote going west

Answer 33

Thomas King

Question 34

What does Thomas King reject?

Answer 34

He doesn’t accept the terms pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial because it places everything in relation to colonialism.

Question 35

allusion

Answer 35

reference to a work, art, person from another work
Ex: Death by Landscape: the paintings of Tom Thomson, A. Y . ., Harris
Messages in Bottles: snow white, coca-cola, moby dick, etc.

Question 36

Magic realism

Answer 36

modern fiction in which fabulous+ fantastical events are included in a narrative that maintains the tone of some realism
(real encompass magic)
Ex: Messages in Bottles: The phone, the bed, turtle giving philosophy class, 89 puppies