CHARACTERIZATION The main characters of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov are, as the title suggests, the members of the Karamazov “family,” if it can indeed be called such. The only things that the members of this family share are a name and the “Karamazov curse,” a legacy of base impulses and voluptuous lust. References to…
Foreshadowing: clues in a story that hint about what is going to happen later in the plot -used to arouse the reader’s curiosity, to build suspense, and to help prepare the reader to accept events that occur later in the story Point of View: the perspective from which a story is told. There are three…
The Elements Include: Plot Symbolism Character Theme Setting Irony Point of View Tone and Style PLOT An author’s selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus. Discussions of plot include not just what happens, but also how and why things happen the way they…
1. Plot: is what happens in the story; the sequence of events 2. Plot Pattern: a) Introduction: Explains the situation, introduces setting, introduces characters b) Rising Action: The series of increasingly suspenseful complications and events c) Climax: The point at which one force in the main conflict wins over the other force in the main…
The tools available to artists have increased and changed the ways we can create. In light of this, we have to find new ways to describe artwork. Earlier in the course we learned about the elements and principles of art and design. Now that we have had time to consider and use some of these…
