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Unit 2 Terms Flashcards

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Pastoral

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A text portraying an idealized version of country life

-typically for urban audiences

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Evocation

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The act of recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind

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Poignacy

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The experience of a keen sense of sadness or regret

Anything that can bring an empathetic tear to the eye

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What scenes are meant to evoke Poignancy?

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Pastoral Scenes

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What 2 attributes are in Poignant scenes?

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1) emotional music

2) close ups (eg. on people’s intense relationships)

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Bucolic

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Something relating to the pleasant aspects of country life

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Anarchich

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Lawless and chaotic with no controlling rules

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Juxtaposition

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things being placed together for a contrasting effect

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Iconic

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an image, person, or concept we’re familiar with, that represents something worthy of respect

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Icon

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Something that represents something else

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iconography

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Group of visual images / symbols

The study and interpretation of images and symbols

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Religious iconography

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Artistic forms and gestures used to convey religious concepts
Representations of religious ideas and events

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Iconographic lense

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Observe imagery with an eye to what it represents in a separate source text outside of the artwork itself

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Literary Canon

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Body of books, narratives, and texts that were seen to be the most influential of a particular time period or place

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Memento Mori

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Reminder of Death

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Chekhov’s Gun

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A set up that has a pay off

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Text

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Refers to writing, objects, actions , behaviours that have a cultural meaning

any cultural artifact can be read as a text

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Easter Eggs

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An unexpected, metafictional feature in a text, intended as a bonus

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Poetic Justice

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A literary device in which virtue (good behaviour) is rewarded and vice (bad behaviour) is punished, usually in an ironic appropriate way
- KARMA

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Metaficton

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Fiction that refers to itself

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Frame Narrative

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A second, more emphasized is told within initial narrative

- A story within a story

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The Unrealiable Narrator

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When the narrator’s perspective is filtered through their past experiences
-when their viewpoint is compremised ; can’t trust them

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Child

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narrator’s inexperience impacting narration

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Outsider

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narrator’s prejudice impacting narration

eg. race, class, gender, etc

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Mental Health Sufferer

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narrator’s mental health issues impacting narration

eg. eating disorder, drug use, alcoholism

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Innocent

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narrator has low intelledence / learning disability / not having key information impacting narration

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Criminal

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a venchful blaming narrator / a guilt narrator trying to convince you of innocence impacting narration

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The Supernatural

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ghostly / overworldly narrator impacting narration

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Unrealiable Narrator:

The WItful Liar

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The narrator tries to mess with the reader , impacting narration

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Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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An unspoken agreement between a text’s creator and the audience member

-the member accepts what is being presented

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Intertextually

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The relationship between literary texts

-reference / allusion to a text within another text

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Carpe Diem

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Seize the Day

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Anachronism

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An error of chronology / timeline in a text

-anything outof place / time

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Pastiche

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A purposeful mimicking of an artistic / literary form
“a playful anachronism”
-parody

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Medium / Genre

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eg. poem, painting, film, archetecture

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Materials

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eg. paper quality, oil paint, 35mm film, steel

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Composition

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eg. word combinations, colour use, rough surfacing

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Structures

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eg. sonnet, paragraphing, model posing

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Diction

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eg. figurative language

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Intended Message

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The meaning the author wants the reader to get

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Emotion

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Internal state of the reader approaching a text

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Reaction

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personal thoughts, feelingsm & emotions in response to the text

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Action

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What the reader is doing while assessing the text

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Intellect

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Individual ability to reason & understand

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Education

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individual, intuition-based knowledge & structures

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Experience

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memory of the reader’s personal past

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Perceived Message

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what meaning the reader actually makes

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Literary Theory

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asserts the filter through which you look at a text affects the meaning of that text

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Reader Response Theory

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meaning is determined by the reader’s own personal life experience

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Feminist Theory

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An evolving critical philosophy that takes into account gender politics, power relations & sexuality

  • focuses on the differences between male & female roles, perceptions, power, and oftern female experience
  • aka Gender Theory
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Marxist Theory

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Focuses on economic, political & relational power

-materialism vs spirituality as an issue

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Examines the internal, psychological motivations of authors / characters in a text

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Archetypal Theory

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Examines Archetypes / stereotypes seen throughout history

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Agency

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refers to the capacity of an “agent” / individual to act individually in the world

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Gender

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A set of social characteristics that are used by a culture to distinguish the ideas of male and female (opposed to physical characteristics)

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Hegemony

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The political economic / cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups

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Ideaology

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A set of ideas / expectations that shape the thinking / understanding of a culture / society
-determines how an individual looks at, sees, and participates in the world

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Femvertising

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The use of feminist principles and ideas to sell products

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The Other + what is Othering

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Identity created by defining ourselves against something : we distance ourselves from those we see as not like us- the other

Othering: giving the other aspects that we don’t like / are afraid of

Grade 12 English (2 decks)

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