Fictional Devices

Would you please Create an original thread based on all three stories (ARABY, EVELINE, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates); and use AT least two of the terms from the “Fictional Device” and two “Elements of Fiction” lists in your original thread.
Fictional Devices
Symbolism: the art of investing meaning in a thing which, in the context of the story, comes to represent some other thing (e.g. colors, animals, geography/place, numbers, metaphors, inanimate objects)
Irony: the use of words being used in direct opposition to the literal meaning (Think of Chris Farley’s use of finger quotes) or a stark contrast between what is expected to occur and what actually transpires
Satire: the use of sarcasm, irony, or parody to poke fun at and critique vice or folly (e.g. The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, political cartoons)
Theme: the subject or unifying idea, which contains the thesis of the story (It’s what the story is about!)
Subtext: what lies under the superficial theme/context of the story; it’s implied rather than explicitly stated (It’s what the story is REALLY about!)
Subtext: what lies under the superficial theme/context of the story; it’s implied rather than explicitly stated (It’s what the story is REALLY about!)
Elements of Fiction .
Plot: is the author’s arrangement of incidents in a story
In media res: beginning in the middle of things
Flashback: a device that informs us about events that happened before the opening scene of a work
Narrator: the person (voice) who relates the story
Protagonist/Hero: the central character who engages our interest and empathy
Antagonist: the force that opposes the protagonist
Exposition: the background information the reader needs to make sense of the situation in which the characters are placed
Setting/Context: the geographical place or the historical/social/political/economic environment
Rising Action: a complication that intensifies the situation
Conflict: the character’s central problem
Foreshadowing: a suggestion of what is yet to come
Suspense: when the reader is made anxious about what is going to happen next
Climax: the moment of greatest emotional tension
Resolution/Denouement: the conflict is resolved