GUIDELINES TO INTERPRETING A STORY 1. Introduce the author and the title of the story. What is the story about? Try to answer in one sentence. 2. What is the genre of the story? (epistolary‚ a fragment from a novel‚ a play‚ a poem‚ a newspaper article‚ a short story‚ etc.) From whose point of view are the events presented? What type of narration is it? ( the text is wholly narrative‚ is a first person /a third person narration‚ the story is told from the point of view of.../perceived
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Freytag’s Pyramid in A Rose for Emily Though a non-linear narrative‚ Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily fits well into the dramatic structure outlined in Freytag’s Pyramid. Exposition is centered around the death of the eponymous character‚ Emily Grierson‚ and details her history in the town of Jefferson. Moving backward in time‚ a deal between Emily and a former mayor‚ Colonel Sartoris‚ is discussed‚ in which Emily is remitted of all taxes due to a loan Emily’s father made to the town before his
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Structure Spark unfolds her plots not sequentially‚ but piece by piece‚ making extensive use of the narrative technique of prolepsis (flash-forward). For example‚ the reader is aware early on that Miss Brodie is betrayed‚ though sequentially this happens at the end of their school years. Gradually Spark reveals the betrayer‚ and lastly all the details surrounding the event are told. Spark develops her characters in this way‚ too: Joyce Emily is introduced right away as the girl who is rejected from
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On “The Story of an Hour” “The Story of an Hour‚” a short story by Kate Chopin‚ details the events of the short hour when Mrs. Mallard finds out her husband has died‚ only to see him walking through the door. Chopin makes it clear through the structure of the story that the irony of these events is no coincidence; there is conflict when people are oppressed and their soul has no joy or freedom. It is clear in the exposition that Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with heart trouble‚ implying she is weak
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Notes: Questions to consider: -There’s a relationship between Richardson’s ways of constructing a character and Austen’s‚ and perhaps a relationship between the ends he’s seeking to achieve through characterization and those of Austen’s. -With that being said‚ how do we turn it into an analysis? >>> Why not begin with questions about form? -Does it matter that Richardson’s novel is epistolary first-person and Austen’s narrator is a version of third-person omniscient with a great deal of
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Literary Device Notes Alliteration Repeating the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Allusion A figure of speech that makes a reference to‚ or representation of‚ people‚ places‚ events‚ literary work‚ myths‚ or works of art‚ either directly or by implication. Bildungsroman A type of novel concerned with education‚ development‚ and maturation of a young protagonist. Essentially‚ a Bildungsroman traces the formation of a protagonist’s maturity (the passage
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The Fiction that written by Edward Branigan have a deep discussion about what define a fiction and characters it obtains. At the beginning of the essay‚ the fiction is not conceived by lies. The fictions are created by imaginary and association which could be narrative or nonnarrative. The fiction have references related to real world‚ while lies are words that created deliberately for deceiving. The reader of the fictions would have connected the contents with the real world on the basis of the
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The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms‚ for example the English second-person pronoun "you"or "your". Example: You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are‚ and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar‚ although the details are fuzzy. —Opening lines of Jay McInerney’s
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ALTERNATE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS: COUNTER CINEMA Alternate Narrative Systems are often defined in terms of what they are not‚ by comparing them with the classic system. The “alternate” category is somewhat of a miscellany‚ including art cinema‚ Soviet cinema of the 1920s and counter cinema. All are works of a unique artistic consciousness‚ expressing a personal vision. CHARACTERS: Might appear contradictory or unconvincing‚ and in general not seem credible‚ psychologically well-rounded individuals with
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PLOT SUMMARIES OF ELEONORA Eleonora is about an unnamed narrator and his love life. The narrator lives with Eleonora‚ his cousin and his aunt. Their valley is isolated from others and no strangers ever enter it. The narrator only knows Eleonora‚ his aunt and the valley. This valley is named as the valley of the colored grasses and it is described as a paradise of fragrant flowers‚ fantastic trees‚ and a "River of Silence”. They live there together for fifteen years before they realize that love
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