| Term | Definition |
|---|
| fiction | fake/real |
| fable | a story for childen usually |
| mob mentality | if everyone else accepts it , its ok |
| ie of mob mentality | the lottery, women being stoned to death |
| didactism | anything that teaches a lesson |
| ie of didactism | the bible |
| tale | anything that tells a story |
| tall tale | strictly for entertainment involving an exaggerating character and situation |
| ie of tall tale | the metamorphosis |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| ie of hyperbole | when othelo say hes going to cut up dessy in pieces |
| fairy tale | usually beginning with once upon a time, involving magic, enchantment, mythical creatures |
| ie of fairy tale | aladdin |
| dramatic situation | what is going on that makes it intresting |
| ie of dramatic situation | how iago continuosly brings up more tension |
| irony | the unexpected in a story |
| ie of irony | in the story of an hour, how the wife is excited that her husband is dead, but when her husband shows up infornt of her face later, she is surprised, shocked, and dies |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters dont |
| ie of dramatic irony | othello |
| conflict | any forces that works against each other |
| ie of conflict | othello how iago is woking against othello |
| complication | adding to the intial conflict |
| ie of complication | telling othello more stupidity on dezzy |
| exposition | explanation on where it comes |
| ie of exposition | when iago turns to the camera to let us know what is going on |
| protagonist | the main character in which we identify |
| antagonist | anyone who is wokring against the protagonsist |
| ie of protagnoist | the cask of the amontillado |
| tension/suspense | is a result of the conflict of the story |
| foreshadowing | any hint to stuff happening later |
| climax | climatic action |
| conclusion/resolution | end of story |
| in media res | in the middle of |
| ie of in media res | the story of an hour |
| flashback | any form of exposition that explains things |
| epiphany | life changing realization for a character |
| narrartor | person telling the story |
| reliable narrator | we can trust what they are saying without them lying |
| unreliable narrator | we cannot trust them , they are crazy, liars, do not know what there talking aboutq |
| omnicscience | when the narrator knows everything |
| editorial omnisciene | when the editor knwos everything but gives an opinon |
| impartial omnicscience | when the editor knows everything but you dont give your opinion |
| objectivity | when you tell a story from a completly neutral point of view |
| limited ominscience | when the narrator know some, but not all |
| stream of consciousness | when you write everything that comes to mind |
| concrete | tangible items |
| abstract | non tangible items |
| jargon | variations within a dialect, i.e nfl football |
| metaphor | 2 ways of comparing things |
| simile | using like or as |
| denotation | what a word means straight from the dictionary |
| conotation | what a word implies |
| what is utopia? | perfect place, setting, everyting imaginable and perfect |
| what is dystopia? | a miserable soiety, the complete opposite of utopia |
| who wrote the lottery? | shirley jackson |
| brief overview of lottery? | When this whole city gathers up on june 27th for their lottery to see who will won, hutchinson won but was stoned to death as a sign of harvest for their comunity |
| who wrote the metamorphosis? | Franz Kafka |
| overview of metamorphosis? | gregor samsa turning into a bug |
| symbol for lottery | black dot on slip in box of people |
| symbolism for metamorphosis | the bug, lots of it. |
| who wrote old man with old wings? | Gabriel garcia marquez |
| symbolism in old wings? | discrimination |
| who writes the story of an hour? | kate chopin |
| significance of story of an hour | ironic story |
| who wrote the hills like white elepants? | ernest hemingway |
| signficicans of whit elephants> | hills, white elephants |
| who wrote the amontillado | poe |
| significance of amontillado? | ironic |
| who wrote the secret life of walter mitty? | james thurber |
| yellow wallpapeper | charlotte perkins gilman |
| sig of wallpaper? | The wallpaper, revealing something |
| who wrote a worn path? | eudora welty |
| sig of worn path? | power strucutre,black women |
| who wrote a and p | john updike |
| sig of a aand p | power strucutre, of the cashier |
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