F.4.5.1 Terms

Question 1

Narrator

Answer 1

• First Person : -Only know thoughts & feelings of one character
  -Biased due to one sided veiw

-Third Person: - Know thoughts & feelings of all characters & know
more than characters know of themselves
- Views is hidden

Question 2

proximity

Answer 2

• How close the narrator is to the action

Question 3

Bias

Answer 3

-Narrator attitude of character or telling through descriptions

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

• Perspective which text is told

Question 5

Retrospective

Answer 5

• Looks back at events in the past from the present

Question 6

Splintered

Answer 6

• Moves between two or more narrators or between past and present

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

• The narrator’s or speaker’s attitude toward what he/she is discussing
• Shifts frequently in a passage/poem/text
• Changes when there is dialogue between or among characters.

Question 8

Voice

Answer 8

• How the speaker/narrator sounds
• Or how the writer sounds
• Literary elements contribute to voice

Question 9

Syntax

Answer 9

• Sentence structure
  ex. rhetorical questions
  dialogue
  punctuation
  parallel structure
  length of sentences

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

• Word choice

Question 11

Connotation

Answer 11

• What the words mean within the text

Question 12

Denotation

Answer 12

-The dictionary definition

Question 13

Allegory

Answer 13

• Has two levels of meaning,
• Both literal (tells a surface story)
• Symbolic (extends through the entire story)

Question 14

Archetype

Answer 14

• A symbol repeated across time and cultures

Question 15

Foil

Answer 15

• Two characters who contrast with each other and because of their
  contrast

Question 16

Apostrophe

Answer 16

• Address to an inanimate or absent entity

Question 17

Understatement (P.O.S)

Answer 17

• Saying something to underemphasize its importance
  -(often used sarcastically)

Question 18

Extended metaphor (P.O.S)

Answer 18

-When the writer continues the comparison throughout a poem or paragraph