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Wonderworlds Flashcards

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Frame narrative

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Story within a story

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Site of production

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Context - the time and place the book was written.

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Difference between story and plot?

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Story - chronological events. Plot - how events are ordered in the book.

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Narration

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How we hear what we hear

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Metaphor

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One thing stands for another

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Simile

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As or like

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Metonomy

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Using a part to stand for a whole

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Allusion

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Cultural shorthand

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Theoria

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To comprehend or behold

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Theory -

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Defines various methods of reading and interpreting.

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Semiotics

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The science of signs

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Why study English lit?

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Good literature is of timeless significance.

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In liberal humanism, The literary text -

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Contains its own meaning within itself.

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The purpose of literature is -

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The enhancement of life and the propagation of humane values. But not in a propaganda way!

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The job of criticism is to -

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Interpret the text, to mediate between it and the reader.

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Most important thing for an English student?

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Get curious!!

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Context that a book was written in?

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Site of production

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What are the 5 points that are covered by all literary theories?

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PLTMH
Politics is pervasive
Language is constitutive
Truth is provisional
Meaning is contingent
Human nature is a myth
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What is the essence of Structuralism?

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The belief that things cannot be understood in isolation.

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Aposiopesis

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Figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished. Get out, or else-!

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Abstract

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Apart from concrete reality

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Tone

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The general character or attitude of a piece of writing

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Tautology

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The saying of the same thing twice in different words

They arrived one after the other in quick succession

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Parataxis

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The placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination
Tell me, how are you
He passed Rico’s bar and turned towards the square and saw there were …

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Sibilant

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Hissing sound - of s

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statement

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Mimesis/ mimetic

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Reproducing an external reality

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Interpolation/ interpolate

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Interweave in something new

29
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Quote from Thomas King

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There are no truths, only stories.

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