Unseen Methods Flashcards

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name 5 structural methods

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  • privileged event (position in the text)
  • framed narratives, cyclical structure, shifts in time
  • development of an incident (suspense, tension)
  • contrast, shift in tone, anticlimax
  • multiple narrators, foreshadowing, stream of consciousness
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name 4 methods of characterisation

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  • presentation of characters (phys appearance, actions/motives, interactions)
  • how (un)realistic their presentation is
  • narrative gaps of reader’s knowledge about them
  • symbolism, caricature (lack of) sympathy, conflict, pathos
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name 4 methods of time and place

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  • contextual setting, how narrative is structured over time, how meaning is shaped over location
  • time adds complexity to a narrative (flashback, diff narratives for diff times)
  • ways of describing settings
  • choice of place symbolises aspects of characters/ relationships
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Exposition

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Revealing the key details about character, setting, situation, commonly at the start of a narrative;
- often descriptive, may be revealed through dialogue or the narrator’s commentary.

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anaphora

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the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
- My life is my purpose. My life is my goal.

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chiasmus

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grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order.
- “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.”

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Litotes

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  • double negatives for emphasis.
  • “not bad”, “He’s not unintelligent”
  • “neither unthinking, nor unseeing”.
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Tricolon

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is a term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses
- power of 3

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-

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https://literarydevices.net/

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zoomorphism/anamorphism

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  • assigning humans animal characteristics and vice versa
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