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Short Story Exam
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17
Literature
Undergraduate 1
11/23/2009

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Cards

Term


A & P
author
Definition

 

 

John Updike

Term

 

 

The Lottery

author

Definition

 

 

Shirley Jackson

Term

 

 

Barn Burning

author

Definition

 

 

William Faulkner

Term

 

 

Where are you going, where have you been?

author

Definition

 

 

Joyce Carol Oates

Term

 

 

Araby

author


Definition

 

 

James Joyce

Term

 

 

Young Goodman Brown

author

Definition

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Term

 

 

A Clean Well Lighted Place

author

Definition

 

 

Earnest Hemingway

Term

 

 

A Rose for Emily

author

Definition

 

 

William Fulkner

Term

 

 

A Rose for Emily

information

Definition

a rare first person plural (narrative) and is told by the towns people. 

 

Term

 

Bildungsroman

defined

Definition

The protagonist grows from child to adult.

has a life changing experience in the story

Term

 

 

Bildungsroman

A &  P

Definition


A&P- Sammie makes a life changing decision by quitting the market and realizes it will be hard the world will be from then thereafter. 

 

The girls never realized his hero-ness or cared. 

 

Term

 

 

Bildungsroman

Barn Burning

Definition

Sarty has a life changing experience when he decides to leave his family forever.

with his back towards his family and looking into the dark forest showing he doesn't know what the future holds for him. 

Term

 

 

Bildungsroman

Where are you going, where have you been?

Definition

Connie goes from childhood into adulthood by leaving the house which symbolizes her own childhood. 

 

 

Term

 

 

Bildungsroman

Araby

Definition

The train ride symbolized his passage/journey from childhood into adulthood. 

 

he went from himself to being full of anguish and anger

Term

 

 

Oxymoron


Definition

Define: a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms

 

Examples: Absolutely unsure, jumbo shrimp, alone in a crowded room. 

Term
3rd Person Omniscient
Definition
A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
Term
3rd Person Limited
Definition
Third person limited point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented externally. Third person limited grants a writer more freedom than first person, but less than third person omniscient.
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