ENGL124 Chapter : ENGL124 - Intro to [Short] Fiction (3)

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English 124 >>> week 3 book: harbrace anthology short fiction. Point of view narrator - story tellers; through whose voices the stories are related. >third person narrators not characters in the stories they tell. Objective, reporting observable facts of story w/o direct comment. >first person narrators present in the stories they tell, either observers/minor participants, or major char. Symbolism symbols objects/char. /actions that stand for something beyond themselves archetypes universal symbols ex. cycles of seasons/day and night = phases of human life contextual symbols take on meaning only w/i stories that contain them. Irony verbal irony - dif. b/w apparent and actual meanings of a speaker s words dramatic irony readers have clearer perceptions of situations than do the char. involved in them ex. Araby situational irony char. s struggle against natural/supernatural forces that frequently defeat them.

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