English 101 Unit 1 Test

Fiction

Shaping or counter fitting purpose is to see yourself

what is literacy fiction

requries reader involvemnt

what is pulp fiction

made for mass consumption

what does the word tale come from and what does it mean

talu, speech

fable

moral

tall tale

exageratedf

fariy tail

magic

plot

the unraveling of the dramatic situation or conflict

conflict

the clash of ideas, actions, wills, or desires

what are the 5 types of conflcit

man vs man, self, environment, society, fate/god

what is exposition

opening portion of a story where background, characters, setting are given

what is suspense

pleasurable anxitiy

what is forsahdoiwng

preveiw of what’s happening

what is a flashback

looking back

what is crisis

any moment of high tension

what is the climax

moment of highest tension (turning point)

what is denvoment

unraveling of the plot, resolution of the conflict

in medias res

starts in the middle

rite of passage

mevement of 1 stage of life to anther

ephiphiny

movement of sudden insight or realization

what is 1st person point of view

me, mine, I, us, our

what is native/innocent narrator (1st person)

doesn’t know what is going on

what is unreliable 1st person narratior

takes ideas/facts from other characters

what is stream of conchiouns 1st person pov

random thoughts inside a characters mind

what is interior monologue (1st person)

scripted words with 1 persons thoughts scattered in

what is 3rd person

(they, she, them, him)

what is 3rd person omniscient

all seeing all knowing

what is 3rd person limited omnicient

knows and sees only 1 character

what is 3rd person objective

see all, doesn't know all

what is 3rd person editiorail omniscience

all seeeing/knowing, also expresses a view

direct character

author shows straight out through exposition what the character is like

indirecet

character is shown in action and readers infer what the character is like

flat

one dimensional, easily discribed

round

multi-dimentional, hard to analyze

stock

has appeared so often in lit. readers immediately recognize the type of characters

static

same at the end of the text and the beginig

dynamic

undergoes some sort of permant change

consistnat

can’t behave one way in a situation and different in another

motivated

readers want to understand why characters do what they dop

plausable

the character can’t be too good or too bad

gratious act

without motivation or cause of action

anti-hero

in postmodern lit; ordinary 20th century citizen who is frustrated, mocked, confused

what is setting

time and place of a story

what are the 2 parts of setting

locale and time

what is locale

physical envorment

what are the 5 purposes of setting

evoke atmosshere, reveal character, symbol, revels tone, revels theme

what is tone

the authores attitidue towards his audience, hsi subject matter, or himself revealed through his work.

what is the modd

the feeling the reader gets

what is style

the individual traits/characteristics of a piece; the authors way of mainigining words that seem habitial or custemeary.

irony

any matter of discrepancy

what is discrepancy

a difference in 2 things that should line up but don’t

verbal irony

discrepeny between what is said and what is meant

what is dramatic irony

descrimpency between what the character says/thinks and what the readers know to be true

situational irony

discrepancy between anticipation/expectation and reality

what is POV irony

when the narratior doesn’t know whats happening but the author and reader do

what is cosmic irony

fate causes dicrepancy

what is theme

the underlying generalization about life in the story

what is a symbol

thing that suggests more than the literal meaning

what is allegory

story with meaning behind the surface meaning

what is a symbolic act

gesutre larger than usualy sigficance