3: Fiction
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Learning Objectives
- Ask subjective and objective questions about what they have read.
- Learn the meanings of “tone,” “diction,” and “syntax.”
- Identify the major elements of a plot.
- Identify character, setting, and theme.
- Differentiate between internal and external conflict.
- 3.33: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
- l mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of thi
