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ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature Exam 1
ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature, Brewton-Parker College, Dr. Brucie, Spring 2011
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01/23/2011

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What is a gravestone tribute writing
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Epitaph
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What makes up the components of the action
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Plot
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The Good Guy
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Protagonist
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The Bad Guy
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Antagonist
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All good heroes are _______.
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Reluctant
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Brief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral.
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Fable
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Brief story that teacher a moral, unlike a fable in that a moral is implicit and can be interpreted differently.
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Parable
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Short story without a complex plot.
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Tale
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humorous short story that provides a wildly exaggerated version of events
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Tall Tale
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Short narrative usually orally transferred, supernatural characters often with a hero seeking a desirable fate.
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Fairy Tale/Folk Tale
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prose story too brief to be published in a separate volume
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Short Story
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"Coming-of-Age Story;" Main character (usually a child) undergoes an important experience
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Initration Story
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main or central character in a narrative.
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Protagonist
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Most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist
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Antagonist
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opening portion of a narrative, scene is set, protagonist introduced, and background information is introduced
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Exposition
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central struggle between two or more forces in a story
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Conflict
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introduction of a significant development in central conflict between characters
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Complication
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When the crucial action, decision, or realization must take place
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Crisis
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The moment of greatest intensity towards the end of work.
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Climax
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Logical end or outcome of a unified plot shortly following the climax, also called the Resolution.
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Conclusion
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indication of events to come in a narrative, relevant to the plot.
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Foreshadowing
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scene relived in a character's memory.
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Flashback
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A moment of profound insight or revelation by whiche a character's life is greatly altered.
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Epiphany
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Latin phrase meaning "in the midst of things"
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In medias res
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When and where; Time and Place
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Setting
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Location where the story takes place
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Locale
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dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a literary work.
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Atmosphere
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representation of specific locale (by region)
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Regionalism
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type of fiction in whiche characters are presented as products of victims of environment and heredity. Naturalism is considered an extreme form of realism.
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Naturalism
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Very minor, mentioned very few times; only one outstanding trait.
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Flat Characters
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Fully develops
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Round Characters
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Questions to Consider about Character?
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- Identify the most important character
-Consider the ways the character's personalities and values are communicated.
- Consider how the story's action grows out of its character.
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revelation of the character, good and bad things.
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Characterization
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Physical Description
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Character Description
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Does the character change?
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Character Development
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what pushes the character
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Character Motivation
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Common or stereotypical
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Stock Character
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who tells the story
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Point-of-View
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"many voice in multiple conversations"; explains the multiple conversations occurring in a novel.
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Dialogic heteroglossia
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the rules of interpretation
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hermeneutucal principles
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attempting to reconstruct an author's intentions or the meaning it might have had for readers at the time it was written.
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hermeneutics of recovery
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An author's unspoken, but implied assumptions concerning politics, sexuality, religion, etc.
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hermeneutics of suspicion
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the act of studying, analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and enjoying a work of art.
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