Wuthering Heights Analysis Words Flashcards

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Analepsis

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Flash backs in a text

Eg, Nelly’s story

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Binary opposition

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Two. Theoretical opposites which rely on each other to make sense.
- Wuthering Heights and Thrushcroft Grange

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Diegetic narrator

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The narrator is part on the story, reliable, perceptive, active role in the story.

  • Nelly
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Extra-Diegetic Narrator

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Narrator is outside of the story / lack of involvement,
- unreliable, misjudges events,

  • Lockwood
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5
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Extrinsic Reading

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Focus on issues outside of the text - aspects of the authors biography, social values, setting.

  • used to inform reading
  • eg, Yorkshire moors
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Focalisation

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Narrator chooses which aspects to focus on, particular characters or aspects.

  • Nelly’s narrative
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Frame narrator

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The narrative of the frame narrator includes all of the other narratives in the story.

  • Lockwood
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Interdependent divisions

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Two contrasting ideas which can’t be separated, they rely on each other

  • good and bad
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9
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Intrinsic reading

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Focus on the language / words on the page

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10
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Narrative content

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Collection of represented events along with participants and circumstances of the events.

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Narrative form

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How the events are presented through a particular medium.

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Omniscient narrator

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All-knowing narrative voice.

  • arguably absent in Wuthering Heights
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Prolegs is

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Flash forward in a text.

  • Narrative constantly jumps forward and backwards in time.
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14
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Gothic novel

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Suggests of a super-natural presence

  • based of gothic architecture
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Motif

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Recurring structures, contrasts or literary devices.

  • help to inform and develop the text’s major themes.
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16
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Analyse

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Separate into components and identify characteristics

17
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Discuss

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Present key points

  • either strengths and weaknesses
  • or different ideas
18
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Examine

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In great detail

19
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Explore

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Investigate without preconceptions

20
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Feminist

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Evidence of gender influence in writing style

21
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Marxist

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Issues of social class and wealth

  • social context
  • historical context
22
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Psychoanalytical

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State of mind

  • repressed feelings
  • motivations
  • mental illness
  • authors motives