ENG 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Diegesis
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*we have the responsibility to critique (critical consciousness) a story while also willing suspend our disbelief at the same time. The way the gaps are filled in by the reader. The way our day to day sense of reality matches up with the experience of the story itself. Beginning, middle, and end aristotle 350 bce. Plot: the events of the story in the order in which they occur. Exposition - explanation or context or frame that sets up the story; in ricky of the. Tuft it is the birth of ricky and the birth of the princesses. Complication/conflict/tension - tension between the 2 sisters and ricky falls in love with the stupid sister and relieves her of stupidity. Climax/turning point/reversal - the stupid princess takes a walk in the woods and runs into ricky of the tuft a year after she promised to marry him and has to decide.
