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TERM 1
Fiction
DEFINITION 1 Literature whose capability of diclosing truths of human nature is used primarily upon the world of possibility as generated by realities of imagination. Tells a lie to tell a larger truth. TERM 2
Literature
DEFINITION 2 A human means of bringing about a manageable collaboration between possible worlds or culures and represented worlds or cultures, primarily through the manipulation of language. TERM 3
Myth
DEFINITION 3 A story about superhuman beings of an earlier age taken by preliterate societyto be a true account, usually of how natural phenomena, social customs, etc, came into existance. TERM 4
Archetype
DEFINITION 4 A plot or character image that is shaped by repeating historical and cross-cultural experience that gets expressed in current myths, religion, dreams, fantasies, and literature. TERM 5
Narrative
DEFINITION 5 The literatry glue that binds the contingencies of our life and lives together in some coherent fashion through the interplay of context, conspiracy, casuistry, and character as they are developed over time.
TERM 6
Culture
DEFINITION 6 The human means of interpreting and comunicating its experience of accepting and creating a world available to consciousness. TERM 7
Point of View
DEFINITION 7 The vantage point from which the author presents the actions of the story.1st-2nd-Omniscient-Limited Omniscient- TERM 8
Flashback
DEFINITION 8 A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader or audience member about events that took place before the opening scene of a work. TERM 9
Conflict & its
Responses
DEFINITION 9 Conflict is the inevitable and desirable result of interaction between differences created by the human agony of being both individual and social. Humans may respond by fighting gleeing or negotiating and gives rise to the conflict: another character, force of nature, self, society, etc,; the struggle within the plot between opposing forces. TERM 10
Irony
DEFINITION 10 A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity ir discrepancy.Cosmic-Verbal-Situational-
