LIT Unit 4: Nuance and Complexity PDF
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This document is a unit on literary analysis, focusing on character development, plot, setting, and narrator. It provides an overview of how these elements work together to create meaning in stories and helps students understand how to interpret and analyze literature.
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Unit 4: Nuance and Complexity his unit begins to explore more deeply the traits of stories. The focus is on being able to T apply skills to texts that are more nuanced and complex. Most of the basic skills of the course have been introduced, and the rest of the course focuses on improving...
Unit 4: Nuance and Complexity his unit begins to explore more deeply the traits of stories. The focus is on being able to T apply skills to texts that are more nuanced and complex. Most of the basic skills of the course have been introduced, and the rest of the course focuses on improving those. By the end of this unit, students will know that…. Character: The significance of characters is often revealed through their agency and through nuanced descriptions. Characters’ choices—in speech, action, and inaction— reveal what they value. The main character in a narrative is the protagonist; the antagonist in the narrative o pposes the protagonist and may be another character, the internal conflicts of the protagonist, a collective (such as society), or nature. Protagonists and antagonists may represent contrasting values. Conflict among characters often arises from tensions generated by their different value systems. Setting: A setting may help establish the mood and atmosphere of a narrative. The environment a character inhabits provides information about that character. Plot: S ome patterns in dramatic situations are so common that they are considered archetypes, and these archetypes create certain expectations for how the dramatic situations will progress and be resolved. The differences highlighted by a contrast emphasize the particular traits, aspects, o r characteristics important for comparison of the things being contrasted. Contrasts often represent conflicts in values related to character, narrator, or speaker perspectives on ideas represented by a text. Narrator: Narrators may function as characters in the narrative who directly address readers and either recall events or describe them as they occur. Narrative distance refers to the physical distance, chronological distance, relationships, or emotional investment of the narrator to the events or characters o f the narrative. Stream of consciousness is a type of narration in which a character’s thoughts are related through a continuous dialogue or description. The narrators’, characters’, or speakers’ backgrounds and perspectives shape the tone they convey about subjects or events in the text. Descriptive words, such as adjectives and adverbs, not only qualify or modify the things they describe but also convey a perspective toward those things. The attitude of narrators, characters, or speakers toward an idea, character, or situation emerges from their perspective and may be referred to as tone.
