Literary Form (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Genre definition
Genre definition
Category of artistic composition by style, form, or content
4 genres in The Great Gatsby
4 genres in The Great Gatsby
Tragedy, realism, modernism, social satire
Modern tragedy's destructive force
Modern tragedy's destructive force
Society itself, not divine punishment
Purpose of social satire in Gatsby
Purpose of social satire in Gatsby
Expose superficiality & moral emptiness of 1920s society
Modernist characteristics (Holman)
Modernist characteristics (Holman)
Historical discontinuity, alienation, loss, despair
Valley of Ashes literary influence
Valley of Ashes literary influence
T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
Type of narrator Nick Carraway is
Type of narrator Nick Carraway is
Limited perspective, unreliable, self-aware
Metafiction definition
Metafiction definition
Prose that draws attention to itself as fictional work
Novel's structural pattern
Novel's structural pattern
Quasi-volta: 9 chapters pivoting around chapter 5
When Nick narrates after events
When Nick narrates after events
Two years after summer 1922
Nick's dual position phrase
Nick's dual position phrase
'Within and without' social circles
Synaesthetic language example
Synaesthetic language example
'Yellow cocktail music' - mixing sight & sound
Green light symbolises
Green light symbolises
Hope, longing, & the American Dream