ENGLISH 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes, Taste, Sharon Olds

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Lorraine York

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Atmosphere the emotional aura surrounding a certain setting. Example: in virginia woolf s a haunted house (p. 129-130), the setting initially sets the story up for an aura of fear, but as the story progresses, the emotional aura surrounding the. Haunted house is one of love (both past and present). Setting the time and place of a story. Example: alice munro s boys and girls (p. 218-231) takes place on a huron county farm in the town of jubilee post 1945. Initiation story a story in which the main character, usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an experience (right of passage) that prepares him or her for adulthood. Example: in alice munro s boys and girls (p. 218-231), both mack"s shooting and flora"s escape are experiences that lead the narrator to finally accept her feminine identity. Allegory a device in which characters or events represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.