EN119 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sentience, Antihero, Signify

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Methodologies: genre, narrative, character, archetypes, time & space. Cognitive schemata: a collection or database of patterns that allow is to process textual information into recognizable conventions. Cognitive schemata improve and multiply with experience, while the most basic schemata become automatic . Generic contract: a set of expectations shared by readers and writers that establish which genre the text belongs to, and what cognitive schemata to use in recognizing them. Narrative: includes the characters, locations, events; specific strategies and devices of narration; the sequence of events, as they are given to the reader. Includes: narrator, perspective/pov, order of events may be skewed. Character: persons or creatures presented in a dramatic or narrative work; participants in a story-world: sentience is required for someone to be a character. Archetype: a recurrent narrative design, pattern of action, character type, or image identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, as well as in myths, dreams, and art works.

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