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Argument
Definition
text whose purpose is to persuade its addressee to take an action or position favored by the author
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Narrative
Definition
text composed of events characters, and settings. unlike other texts, possesses a double time order - the time of the events narrated and the time it takes to narrate those events
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Point
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consequence of the story - reason it gets told.

converns only the fiction NOT LIKE THEME

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Story
Definition

part of the narrative that is told or shown

whole set of events, characters &setting

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Discourse
Definition
means by which the story is communicated - shown by narrator
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Real Author
Definition
the person who wrote the book
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Narratee
Definition
the audience to whom the narrator adresses the narrative
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Suspense
Definition
intense kind of narratice curiosity, often because one of the possible outcomes of the present situation endagers the character with whom the read identifies
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Ideaology
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comprehensive system of beliefs and ideas about the nature of things - may not be followingly it consciously- what they believe and  how they believe it
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Verisimilitude
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truth-seeming or the semblance of thruth

NOT LITERAL TRUTH

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Branching of Story-Events
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the fundamental pattern of story; a given situation provokes our anticipation of the possibilty of a variety of ecents, but in traditional narrative, only one event actually materializes
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Internal Narrator
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a narrator who previously participated in the plot as one of the characters

"witness narrator"

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Personal Narrator
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narrator with a personality
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Slant
Definition
perspective  - moral, intellectual, emotional - from which the narrator presents the story
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Context
Definition

whatever precedes and follows a given narrative feature that helps the read interpret it

 

evens, props, character, theme

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Tag
Definition

phrase - he said- she thought- that marks a given phrase as a quote of a character

 

LATIN WORD FOR TAG = INQUIT

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Untagged
Definition
free quotation
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Romantic Irony
Definition
The narrator of a literary work creates an illusion of reality but then destroys the illusion by revealing that he is arbitrarily making up the story as he goes. ...
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Fallible Filters
Definition

Explicit = evokes the fallibility of the characters

Implicit = characters behaiors as a whole are flawed

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Parable
Definition
an argument cast in the form of narration
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Indian Camp
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Hemmingway
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The Tell-tale Heart
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Poe
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The Apostate
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Jack London
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Short Friday
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Singer
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Kew Gardens
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Virigina Wolf
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The Darling
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Chekhov
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A Little Cloud
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James Joyce
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A Tree A Rock A Cloud
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McCullers
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The Flowers
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Alice Walker
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Lost in the Fun House
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John Barth
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Two Portraits
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Kate Chopin
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The Garden of Forking Paths
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Jorge Luis Borges
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The Unparallel Invasion
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Jack London
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Four Summers
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Joyce Carol Oates
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The Sin Eater
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Atwood
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The Guest
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Camus
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