Sunday, January 18, 2009

Novel Honors Content Section

Please review the following literary terms and be prepared to apply them to the novels we have read. Please review character and setting names so that you can answer as specifically as possible.

Novels

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Published 1813.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Published 1831.

My Ántonia by Willa Cather. Published 1918.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Published 1929.


Literary Terms

Tone
- Nostalgic
- Elegiac
Setting
- Historical
- Social
- Physical
- Cultural
Style
Characterization
Character Types
- Foil
- Round
- Flat
- Stock
- Static
- Dynamic
- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Antihero
Allusion
Ambiguity
Aesthetic Distance
Irony
Satire
Diction


Style

Please review notes and abbreviation sheet on sentence style. Be able to identify examples (excerpted from novels) of each.

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