Prose terminology Flashcards
(15 cards)
third person omniscient narrator
narrator is assumed to know everything about the story- assumed to be the author
free indirect style
3rd person narration- characters thoughts and feelings directly expressed
freely takes on the views and language of the character
slides between conventional 3rd person and this- detached to intimate
naive/inadequate narrator
narrator does not understand the narrative as much as the reader
unreliable narrator
narrator who is self-deceiving or who cannot be trusted to give a true version of events
self-conscious narrator
reminds the ready that they are reading fiction
intrusive narrator
narrator telling the story in 3rd person and intervenes in the narrative with a comment in the 1st person
multiple voices
more than 1 narrative voice
first person narrative
narrator who speaks as ‘I’
focaliser
in 3rd person narrative character from whose perspective we see
stream of consciousness
imitates the thoughts and feelings of a character making the audience feel that they are in their head
random and fragmentary
second person address
directly addresses the reader as ‘you’
interior monologue
1st person, as though character is verbalising thoughts
structural devices
- oppositions and contrasts: character contrasts, settings, attitudes and values, thematic contrasts, language
- settings and change of settings
- motifs and symbols
realist narratives
- illusion of the real world
- believable characters
- authoritative single narrative voice
-reader as a passive audience
experimental narratives
- play with convention
- draw attention to constructed world
- break rules of fictional world
- mix genres and voices
- explore ideas
- comment on the act of writing
