Composition and Lit test 1

W. Somerset Maugham

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

John Updike

name for stories not entirely factual but at least partly shaped made up imagined

a brief story that sets forth some pointed statement of truth

a message sometimes stated in the end

a person is involved in some conflict

the opening portion that sets the scene, introduces the main character tells, tells us what happened before the story opened and provides any other background info that we need in order to understand or care aout the events to follow

a conflict

a better term than a hero for it may apply equally as well to a central character who is not especially brave or virtuous

the pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention to the story in heres ino our wondering how it will turn out

a person who is opposed to struggles against or competes with another opponent or protagonist

indication of whats to come

moment of high tension

the moment of greatest tension at which the outcome will be decided

• Or resolution
• it is the outcome

artistic arrangement of events

"in the midst of things" skipping the exposition and first presenting some exciting or significant moment then filling in what happened earlier

or retrospect, a scene relived in characters memory

terse general narration

a form more realistic than the tale and of modern origin the writer usually presents the main events in greater fullness

a vivid or dramatic moment described in enough detail to create the illusion that the reader is practically there

some moment of insight discovery or revelation by which a chatacters life or view of life is greatly altered

short stories that tell of a character initiated into experience or maturity

• somemoment of insight discovery or revelation by which a chatacters life or view of
• life is greatly altered

short stories that tell of a character initiated into experience or maturity

speaker

• identify the narrator of a story describing any part he or she plays in the events and
• any limits placed on his or her knowledge

• when the narrator tells the events of the story, he or she is the dramatized
• character who says "I"

• a minor character standing a little to one side watching a story unfold that
• mainly involves someone else

does not appear in the story as a character

• the narrator sees into the minds of all or some of the characters moving when
• necessary from one to another

adding an occasional comment or opinion

• presents the thoughts and actionf of the character but des not judge them or comment on
• them

• when a nonparticipating narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character
• wether a major or minor one

narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside

character who fails to understand all the implications of the story

• point of view that of a person who we percieve is deceptive seld deceptive or
• deranged

• coined by psych william james to describe the procession of thoughts passing through
• the mind

• an extended presentation of chatacters thoughts in an arrangement as if the
• character were speaking out loud to himself for us to hear

knowledge of all the minds of the characters has its disadvantages

william faulkner

Frank O'Connor

Katherine anne Porter

Raymond Carver

Flannery O'Connor

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

T. Coragnessan Boyle

Ernest Hemingway

stereotyped character often known by some outstanding trait

an imagined person who inhabits story

sufficient reason to behave as they do

only have 1 outstanding feature

present more facts- author portrays them in greater depth and detail

fixed character

a changing character

• making reference to some famous person place or thing in history other ficion or
• actuallity

a deed with out cause or motive

time and place

where story takes place

• fiction of grim realsm observing character as products and victims of environment and
• heredity

whatever leads us to infer the authors attitude

individual traits or characteristics of a piece of writing

choice of words

realistic fiction

• William
• Faulkner

• greasy lake
• a&p
• cathedral
• barnburning

• barnburning
• jilting of granny witherall