English 1027F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Metonymy, Diegesis, Microstructure

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1027F/G
• Professor: Nigel Joseph

Document Summary

Serial structures: organize several macrosequences, embedding or combining the final point of the sequence with the opening or middle points of another one in order to defer the final point of closure: this structure stresses the importance of closure as a means of containing the movement of narrativity which the syntagmatic structure produces, the opening and closing of a story are paradigmatic still points of resemblance, what initiates a story is the placement of an event in a sequence to mark a beginning what ends a story is the replacement of the initial event by another one to mark an ending, events are organize by similarity to each other, groupings of events are based on type, events of one kind as opposed to another, or location, events occurring at one setting as opposed to another, or on actors, events involving one actor as opposed to another, binary opposition draws on the opposites in the story.