LITERARY TERMS
... Irony: a contrast between what is expected and what really happens. There are three types: Dramatic: When the audience knows something that a character (or characters) does not. Verbal: A contrast between what is said and what is actually meant (“sarcasm” is the lowest form). Situational (sometimes ...
... Irony: a contrast between what is expected and what really happens. There are three types: Dramatic: When the audience knows something that a character (or characters) does not. Verbal: A contrast between what is said and what is actually meant (“sarcasm” is the lowest form). Situational (sometimes ...
Thesis for Literary Analysis on Scarlet Letter
... How? Sentence Two: Identify rhetorical/literary devices used in order to develop and support the (tone, purpose, etc.) Why? Sentence Three: Explain the (tone, purpose, etc.) of the author/narrator. Example for The Scarlet Letter: ...
... How? Sentence Two: Identify rhetorical/literary devices used in order to develop and support the (tone, purpose, etc.) Why? Sentence Three: Explain the (tone, purpose, etc.) of the author/narrator. Example for The Scarlet Letter: ...
Gothic Narrative Terminology
... a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence. the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. ...
... a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence. the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. ...
Unreliable narrator
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An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence of unreliable second- and third-person narrators, especially within the context of film and television.Sometimes the narrator's unreliability is made immediately evident. For instance, a story may open with the narrator making a plainly false or delusional claim or admitting to being severely mentally ill, or the story itself may have a frame in which the narrator appears as a character, with clues to the character's unreliability. A more dramatic use of the device delays the revelation until near the story's end. This twist ending forces readers to reconsider their point of view and experience of the story. In some cases the narrator's unreliability is never fully revealed but only hinted at, leaving readers to wonder how much the narrator should be trusted and how the story should be interpreted.