GCSE

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Pride and PrejudiceLiterary terms

• GCSE
• English Literature

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Elizabeth and Darcy

• Protagonist the chief character in the novel,
  now almost synonymous with hero or heroine,
  who may be locked in a struggle with the
  antagonist.
• Antagonist the opponent of the protagonist, the
  chief character in the novel, where two figures
  are engaged in a struggle with each other.

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Mr Collins.

• Circumlocution - words and descriptions which
  take roundabout ways of approaching or hinting
  at a subject rather than addressing it directly,
  either for comic or ironic effect, or to avoid
  embarrassing topics.
• Caricature - a grotesque or ludicrous rendering
  of a character, achieved by the exaggeration of
  personality traits.

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Story teller

• Centre of consciousness - technique of telling
  the story wholly or chiefly from the point of
  view of one individual, though the narrative is
  still third-person.
• Omniscient narrator - the narrator of a story who
  knows in a godlike way every detail of the
  characters lives, motives, intentions, desires,
  thoughts, actions

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Theme and Motif

• Theme the abstract subject of a literary work
  its central idea or ideas.
• Motif - a topic raised at several points in a
  literary work, of lesser significance than a
  theme. Dancing, walking, reading, letter-writing,
  clothes and food all serve as motifs in Pride
  and Prejudice. Characters are distinguished
  from each other by their attitudes to such
  interests or activities.

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Aphorism

• Aphorism - a generally accepted truth or
  principle expressed in a short and pithy
  sentence.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
  single man in possession of a good fortune, must
  be in want of a wife.

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Authorial intervention and implied reader

• Authorial intervention - a moment in a narrative
  when the narrator talks directly to the reader.
• Implied reader every text contains features
  which hint at or imply the kind of reader at
  which it is aimed. These features may be to do
  with subject matter, tone of voice, assumptions
  as to shared interests, knowledge

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Irony, parody and satire

• Irony - saying one thing while you mean another
• Parody - an imitation of a specific work of
  literature, or literary style or genre, devised
  so as to ridicule its characteristic features.
• A good example is Mr Collinss letter.
• Satire - literature which exhibits or examines
  vice and folly and makes them appear ridiculous
  or contemptible.

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Finally

• Foreshadow - the capacity of a narrative to hint
  at future events.
• Epistolary novel - a novel in which the story is
  told entirely through letters sent by those
  participating or observing events.
• Note! Pride and Prejudice is not an epistolary
  novel, but it does contain many letters.

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