[1028F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (42 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Christopher Keep

Document Summary

Narrative: a sequence of events, real or imaginary, that are arranged as a record or imitation of life. The events are ordered in a meaningful way. Genres have certain types of conventions that characterize their organization: structure a relationship between the reader and the text, create expectations. Narratives have: characters, plot, style (diction, syntax) Genre: gothic: a narrative which develops a brooding atmosphere of gloom and terror and represents events which are uncanny, macabre or melodramatically violent. The setting is often a remote region. Plots dwell obsessively on the darker side of human experience, the unconscious. Principle aim is to invoke terror by exploiting mystery, cruelty and a variety of horrors. Transgression (knowledge and its limits, life is gods creation) Excess (people who go too far: frankenstein. Obsessive with the idea of creating life. Fascinated with morbidity (grave robbing: setting. The sentences in themselves are beyond themselves. They go beyond grammar and reasonable syntax.