Group 3 Lit Terms

Only study the following Lit Terms for your final:

• motif
• recurring object, structure, character type, phrase, or concept in a work and/or numerous works of art.
• Fairy Tale Motifs:
• i.e. the poor family, the weak father, the evil stepmother, the forest (unknown), enchantment (magic), destruction of evil, wedding, sympathetic animals, naive protagonist(s), etc. 
• Biblical motifs:
• i.e. creation-recreation, three days, seven days, the eighth, the garden, the serpent-dragon, the forbidden fruit (tree), banishment from the garden, brother-murder, breath of life, new creation
• "In the beginning God [was the Word]" (found in Genesis and John)
• Seventh Day of Rest: God rested on the seventh day after creating the world; Jesus "rested" (died) after re-creating the world just as the sixth day was ending
• Adam in the Garden (of Eden); Jesus in the Garden (of Gethsemane)
• Serpent in the Garden; Judas and the soldiers in the garden
• Forbidden fruit; Bathsheba; the cross
• Brother-murder: Cain and Abel, David and Uriah, Jews and Jesus 
• Breath of Life: God breathes on Adam; Jesus breathes on His disciples
• New Creation: Eve from Adam's side; the Church from Jesus's side 

• juxtaposition 
• the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.
• i.e. again, when the evil queen in "Snow White" tries to eat Snow White's heart while the wild beasts in the forest do not touch her. This juxtaposition suggests that the evil queen is more "beastly" than the real beasts of the forest, which we would expect to eat Snow White.

• parody
• (Greek: "beside, subsidiary, or mock song"): A parody imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work in order to make fun of those same features. 
• i.e. Nadine Gordimer's "Once upon a Time" depicts how people who believe in fairy tales get chewed up and spit out by real life (i.e. the fear-laden adult world). 
• The little boy who tries to fight the dragon gets "eaten" by "the Dragon's Teeth," the barbed wire designed to protect him. 
• The story begins with the "living happily ever after"
• It is called "Once upon a Time," but it happens in modern day South Africa
• The story begins not with the fairy tale, but with the author making fun of fairy tales
• The wise old witch is the one who gives bad advice, which ultimately ends with the death of the grandchild, the "Prince."
• They live horribly ever after.