The Handmaid's Tale

• Totalitarian


  Government should/does control everything
• Authoritarian


  Government should have a lot of power
• Theocracy


  Government ruled in the name of religion
• Dystopia


  A world controlled by a higher power where there is great suffering and injustice
• Palimpsest


  Writing that goes ontop of a different one
• Narrative Order


  Order of events told
• Chronological order


  Order of events in real life
• Lexis


  Choice of vocab
• Syntax


  Arrangement of words and phrases
• Head


  Word that determines the nature of the phrase
• Pre-mod


  Modifier before the head/noun
• Post-mod


  Modifier after the head/noun
• Neologism


  New words or expressions
• Characterisation


  Who is hero, heroine, villain, mentor etc
• Unreliable narrator


  With hold information un/intentionally
• Homo-diegetic


  Inside story/ same people
• Hetero-diegetic


  Outside story/ different people
• Macro-structure


  Whole structure of the narrative
• Micro-structure


  Internal shape and organization
• Direct Speech


  Through narrators voice/ exact wording
• Free Direct


  Speech clause removed, exact wording
• Indirect


  Words of the narrator "She said she wanted..."
• Free Indirect


  Narrators thoughts of wording "She wanted..."
• Epistemic modality


  Certainty or uncertainty
• Deontic modality


  Necessity, permission or obligation
• Boulomaic modality


  Wish or desire
• Nominative determinism


  Their job is their name
• Patronymic System


  Naming originating from men