Writing Homework Help

Apply the terminology of structuralism to a new narrative, Felicia Snoop Pearson’s Grace After Midnight:

• Identify four of the concepts from Structuralism, offering a brief quote from , and explaining in about 4 sentences how your see that concept in the story.

Choose 4 concepts from the following list: Copy and paste ONLY the four you will use into a document, and follow up each with a short quote from Pearson that you feel fits, and then an explanation of how it fits that category.

• Binary Oppositions

• Langue/Parole or System/Instance

• Semiotics/Semiology

• Signifier/Signified/Referent

• intertextuality 54

• synchronic/diachronic 58

• defamiliarization 63

• Narratology

1. The tale/the telling (chronology)
2. Narrative embedding/nesting
3. Reliability

• Focalization:

1. Internal focalizer/External focalizer shift? 71

• Narrative Syntax, groupings

1. Metaphor/metonymy