The Rethoric Of Narrative Flashcards
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Devices that produces rhetorical effects of narrative
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- Causation
- Normalization
- Masterplots
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Rethoric of Narrative
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Is its power. It’s the design of language to persuade.
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Causation
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The causal of logic that is implied to a sequences of events. No necessary true!
(“Post hoc ergo prompter hoc”) “after this, therefore because of this”
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Normalization
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To make the appearance of normality.
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Masterplots
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Recurrent skeletal stories, belonging to cultures and individuals that play a powerful role in questions of identity, values, and understanding of life.
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Types
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It’s a recurring kind of character.
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Genre
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It’s a recurrent literary form. Epic and tragedy are narrative genres.
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Stereotype
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When a type does not come to life in a narrative and we see the character only as a formula for a character.
