49 terms in 3.4
Character Types & Functions
A character or force opposing the protagonist, creating conflict and driving narrative action.
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A protagonist lacking traditional heroic virtues (nobility, courage, morality) but remaining central to narrative.
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A universal character type, situation, or pattern recurring across literature and cultures (e.g., the hero, the mentor).
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Character Types & Functions
A character who changes significantly throughout narrative through experience and development.
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A simple character defined by few, consistent traits, unchanging throughout narrative.
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Character Types & Functions
A character whose characteristics contrast with the protagonist, highlighting protagonist's qualities.
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A character with psychological depth, complexity, and multiple contradictions who develops throughout narrative.
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A character who remains essentially unchanged throughout narrative.
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A character type recurring in literature, recognisable and conventional (e.g., the wise mentor, the innocent victim).
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A noble protagonist with a tragic flaw (hamartia) leading to inevitable downfall and often death or irreversible loss.
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Drama & Theatre Forms
Theatrical movement emphasising absurdity, illogicality, meaninglessness, and breakdown of conventional drama.
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A formal debate or contest between two characters in drama, originating in Greek comedy. Agon involves opposing viewpoin
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A form mocking or ridiculing something through exaggerated imitation, often of serious styles or subjects.
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Comic dramatic form satirising social conventions, manners, and affectations of fashionable society.
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Humorous scenes or characters interspersed in serious narratives, providing emotional release and contrast, typically li
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The overall shape and trajectory of dramatic action: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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A situation where a character or audience possesses information unknown to other characters, creating divergence between
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Comic dramatic form using exaggerated situations, physical humour, absurdity, and rapid pacing for entertainment.
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Dramatic form emphasising exaggerated emotion, moral simplicity (good vs. evil), sensational plots, and heightened senti
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Medieval dramatic form featuring allegorical characters representing virtues and vices, teaching moral lessons.
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Dramatic genre where protagonist seeks revenge for wrong, usually leading to violent downfall.
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Experimental theatre movement emphasising the absurd human condition and rejecting rational conventions.
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Narrative & Poetic Forms of Conflict
A narrative where characters/events represent abstract ideas or principles, creating double meanings.
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A brief narrative with animal characters that teaches a moral lesson.
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A folk narrative featuring magical beings, enchantments, and often happily-ever-after endings.
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A traditional narrative passed through oral tradition, often with fantastical elements and universal themes.
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A traditional narrative, typically about historical person or place, with legendary (possibly fictional) elements.
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A traditional story explaining natural phenomena, social customs, or spiritual truths, often featuring gods or heroes.
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A brief narrative teaching a moral or spiritual lesson through analogy.
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Poetry engaging explicitly with politics, governance, ideology, and power. Political poetry can be protest, celebration,
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Poetry explicitly critiquing social injustice, political systems, war, or oppression. Protest poetry aims to raise consc
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A poetic tradition expressing grief, loss, and mourning. Elegies memoralise the dead and explore themes of mortality, me
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Artistic movement distorting reality to express inner emotion and psychological states rather than objective reality.
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Narrative Techniques in Conflict
How texts manipulate reader/audience perspective, alignment, and response through narrative techniques, rhetoric, charac
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The relationship between where conflict occurs and how the setting shapes, reflects, or contributes to conflict's nature
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The contrasting effects of dialogue (multi-speaker interchange) versus monologue (single speaker) in representing confli
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Different endings for conflicts and narratives: comic resolution (happy endings, restoration of order), tragic resolutio
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Artistic movement using symbols to suggest ideas beyond literal meaning, prioritising mood and emotion.
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A narrative pattern where tension accumulates through conflict, rising action, and uncertainty, followed by release thro
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The analysis of how an author's attitude toward subject matter is conveyed through word choice, syntax, imagery, and oth
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An error in reasoning or argument that appears persuasive but is logically invalid. Common fallacies include ad hominem,
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A framework for analysing persuasive texts based on three elements: ethos (credibility/character), logos (logic/reasonin
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Types of Conflict
Conflict based on social class divisions, including economic inequality, differing values and opportunities between clas
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Conflict arising from colonialism, including relationships between colonisers and colonised, exploitation, cultural dest
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Conflict arising from gender inequality, different social expectations for genders, and struggles over agency, identity,
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Conflict between characters of different generations, based on differing values, beliefs, life experiences, and attitude
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Conflict arising from competing moral principles, ethical dilemmas, or incompatible values. Moral conflict often has no
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A distinction between external, bodily conflict (violence, action, physical struggle) and internal, mental conflict (mor
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Conflict based on differing religious beliefs, practices, or values within societies or between individuals. Religious c
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