Literary Contexts Flashcards

Flashcards covering key terms, concepts, and types of literary contexts including biographical, historical, sociocultural, psychological, and linguistic contexts.

Literary context is the background, setting, and surrounding circumstances of a piece of writing, specifically its historical, cultural, and __________ influences.

biographical

The literary approach that examines a text by considering the author's life experiences, beliefs, and values is known as the __________ approach.

biographical

The literary context that refers to the time period, important events, beliefs, traditions, government, economy, religion, and social conditions when a work was written is called __________ context.

historical

In Freud's theory of personality, the part that wants immediate pleasure and acts impulsively is the __________.

Id

In Freud's theory of personality, the conscience that reminds you of what is right and wrong is the __________.

Superego

In Freud's theory of personality, the component that balances the desires of the Id and the moral standards of the Superego is the __________.

Ego

The four important elements of psychological context are thoughts, emotions, motivations, and __________.

behaviors

A literary technique that presents a character's thoughts exactly as they naturally occur in a continuous flow is called __________ of consciousness.

stream

In sociocultural context, accepted behaviors and expectations that guide how people should act in society are called social __________.

norms

Linguistic context is also known as verbal context or __________ context.

co-textual

Words or phrases that point directly to the person, place, or time of an utterance and require contextual information to be understood are called __________ expressions.

deictic

Pointing to the participants in a conversation using words like "I", "you", and "they" is known as __________ deixis.

person

Pointing to time relative to the moment of speaking using words like "now", "yesterday", and "tomorrow" is known as __________ deixis.

temporal

The exact set of words surrounding a specific word within the same phrase or sentence that helps determine its exact meaning is called __________.

co-text

The natural, predictable partnership of words that frequently occur together in speech and writing is called __________.

collocation