Wuthering Heights Analysis Words Flashcards
Analepsis
Flash backs in a text
Eg, Nelly’s story
Binary opposition
Two. Theoretical opposites which rely on each other to make sense.
- Wuthering Heights and Thrushcroft Grange
Diegetic narrator
The narrator is part on the story, reliable, perceptive, active role in the story.
- Nelly
Extra-Diegetic Narrator
Narrator is outside of the story / lack of involvement,
- unreliable, misjudges events,
- Lockwood
Extrinsic Reading
Focus on issues outside of the text - aspects of the authors biography, social values, setting.
- used to inform reading
- eg, Yorkshire moors
Focalisation
Narrator chooses which aspects to focus on, particular characters or aspects.
- Nelly’s narrative
Frame narrator
The narrative of the frame narrator includes all of the other narratives in the story.
- Lockwood
Interdependent divisions
Two contrasting ideas which can’t be separated, they rely on each other
- good and bad
Intrinsic reading
Focus on the language / words on the page
Narrative content
Collection of represented events along with participants and circumstances of the events.
Narrative form
How the events are presented through a particular medium.
Omniscient narrator
All-knowing narrative voice.
- arguably absent in Wuthering Heights
Prolegs is
Flash forward in a text.
- Narrative constantly jumps forward and backwards in time.
Gothic novel
Suggests of a super-natural presence
- based of gothic architecture
Motif
Recurring structures, contrasts or literary devices.
- help to inform and develop the text’s major themes.