I find this picture very dramatic. If I still 'did' photography I would be very pleased with myself if I manageg to produce something like this, but instead I found it here. Mr Moon does not like it he finds it too gloomy. I disagree.

Today I am back at work and revision does not stop.

I have recited my three poems all the way to work this morning and plan on adding another poem to my repertoire today. I am also extracting definitions of the most crucial linguistic terms. There are quite a lot of them so I have to be very clever and concise about it. I must admit this preparation is teaching me a lot of things for my next uni year. I definitely did not do my notes well enough and did not make enough notes, instead relying heavily on the books. I shall definitely make this up in my next course (as long as I will pass my exams).

So today I add my final installment of literary terms for prose and for literary terminology that is pretty much it, not I just need to concentrate on learning the poems and the clever quotes. Oh yes I can't find my copy of As You Like It! I am sure all will be well and just in case I started watching the modern version of the play last night which I really enjoyed. It appears that Mr. Branagh really likes Shakespeare, probably a lot more than I do.

I am getting hot so I will be off for some lemonade and heavy studying.

(prose)

Characterization: the revelation of character through techniques such as physical description, action, dialogue, interaction with other characters, and the depiction of thought, emotion and belief.

Dialogic: describes a narrative in which multiple voices, perspectives or discourses are present and engage and interact with each other.

Dialogue: speech between two or more characters in a narrative.

First person: narration from the point of view of a character, often central to the plot, who refers to himself or herself as ‘I’. Such narrators can often be deliberately ‘unreliable’.

Focalization: the point-of-view being narrated. The distinction between ‘who speaks’ and ‘who sees’. Thus, although the narrator ‘speaks’ the focalizer is the character through whose eyes and perceptions the narrative is described. In third-person narratives such as Pride and Prejudice the narrator is the user of the third-person perspective, while the focalizer is the centre of consciousness.

Free indirect speech: speech that is represented, rather than directly related. Extremely flexible form of prose discourse, between indirect narrative commentary and direct speech, giving the impression of combining the two.

Examples: direct speech – He said: ’I love her’

Indirect speech – He said that he loved her

Free indirect speech – He loved her

Genre: the classification of literary works according to common elements of content, form, or technique.

Irony: the expression of a meaning contrary to the stated or ostensible one.

Narrative: the description of the events and situations that make up a story as distinct from dialogue.

Narrator: the ‘speaking voice’ of a narrative; the voice and perspective through which a narrative is told, often, particularly in first-person narratives, a character in the work.

Omniscient: describes a third-person point of view that allows an author to convey external details, description and information while also enabling the revelation of characters’ internal thoughts, emotions and motivations. Omniscient narrators are able to comment on as well as describe events and themes.

Plot: the arrangement of narrative events in a story, organised in such a way as to create interest and involvement for the reader and to establish and emphasise causality.

Point of view: the perspective from which a story is narrated. There are two major perspectives, first person and third person.

Realism: a style of writing that seeks to convey the impression of accurate recording of an actual way of life in a recognisable time and place. Closely associated with the rise of the novel in the nineteenth century as the most effective genre for representing contemporary life, society and attitudes.

Setting: the background of location(s) and historical time against which the characters and plot of a story are set.

‘Showing’ and ‘telling’

Showing: - more dramatic presentation of events and characters through use of direct speech, dialogue etc. without the overt involvement of the narrator.

Telling: -the narrator describes what happens, what characters said, did, felt without directly relating it through dialogue.

Story: a narrated sequence of events arranged chronologically.

Style: the characteristic way in which a writer organizes and expresses his or herself in writing; the combination of literary devices that a writer uses to communicate themes and narrative content.

Third person: a narrative perspective that does not belong to a specific character in the novel. Such narrators are often ‘omniscient’; they are all-knowing and are able to recount the story fully and reliably and are able to enter the consciousness of characters in order to reveal their thoughts, emotions, beliefs and motivations.