English 2 Survey:Literary Interpretation
to help study for Mr.Hench's mid-term exam
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- The exposition of a novel or play or such evolves the fulfillment of five dynamic functions-the five things more or less needed to get a story off and going in a way letting the reader understand what is going on. The first four elements of the exposition are[1] giving context and scene ,[2] introducing the major characters, [3] give necessary background information, and [4] establish the conflict/problem and theme(s). Fine, but that leaves the final expository function. What is that last expository function?
- Launch the Action
- Verisimilitude-the appearance of truth. That's a good thing in literature. What is one of the primary elements a writer uses to establish verisimilitude is a story?
- Foundation (and Edifice)
- Three stories you've read this year had interesting endigs such that though the stories were dramatically different in virtually all aspects of setting and character and details and such, because of the endings the three stories were linked by a common theme attesting the transcendent power of the spirit above the merely physical. What are those three stories?
- [1] "To Build A Fire" [2] "Hook" [3] "A Summer Tragedy"
- Characterization in Literature emerges from three sources in a story:
- [1] What a character says. [2] What a character does. [3] What others (other characters or the narrator) tells us about that character.
- The 1st Tragic Law contends that Man may start a course of events but can neither calculate nor control the ultimate outcome of those events. Identify one of your readings for this year wherein that Theme plays a significant role? Note-To save space you may use shortened titles.
- To Build A Fire
- The plot line of a story is the sequence of cause-and-effect related events. Your notes on "Appendix A" ( In the Measures Of Meaning) tell you that the best plot lines come from a certain place/source (a phrase)
- Character emergent and Manifest
- Adventures may be either physical or psychological. Many stories offer Physical adventure as the mechanism which produces the psychological adventure of passage. I want you to identify two stories: [1]one where the physical and psychological adventures are intertwined, and [2] one were that physical and psychological are separated.
- [1]Together To Build A Fire [2] Separated Dawn of remembered Spring
- How does a writer know that a thesis about "Sanctuary" developing the point that Jim Hammer was disadvantaged because he clearly had been denied any educational opportunities is a poor choice? Note-I know it's a weak point. What I'm asking is how con you tell it's a weak point. What strategy, ploy, or system guides you to this recognition that that point isn't worth making?
- NS2-Not a substantive point taking anyone to a deeper understanding of the story.
- One of the great powers of literature is the capacity to make the reader see what would otherwise escape one's gaze or glance. And one of the favorite devices use is the symbol-an object which is at once both itself(something real and tangible) and something else(typically some abstraction, idea, concept, principle, or such). Drawing from any short story you've read this year for class, identify a single symbol and the concept (or such) it denotes
- The symbol-snakes The concept (etc.) evil and the mystery of life
- Echo structures are, well important. And fairly easy to spot-repetition is the thing. A phrase. Imagery. Whatever. But merely noting that there is an echo structure is not big thing. So tell me, what's the big thing about echo structure?
- The point being emphasized-What it means...-etc.