When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Focalisation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focalisation

    In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator. [1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_narrative_techniques

    Third-person narration: A text written as if by an impersonal narrator who is not affected by the events in the story. Can be omniscient or limited, the latter usually being tied to a specific character, a group of characters, or a location. A Song of Ice and Fire is written in multiple limited third-person narrators that change with each chapter.

  4. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech

    Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]

  5. Narration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narration

    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  6. Category:Third-person narrative novels - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Third-person...

    This category contains articles about novels which use a third-person narrative structure; a mode of storytelling in which the narration refers to all characters with third person pronouns like he, she, or they, and never first- or second-person pronouns. The narrator can be omniscient or limited

  7. Third persona - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Persona

    In Wander's example involving Heidegger and art in society, the primary audience are those within a society where questions elicit official answers, the secondary audience are ideologues and censors already accounted for, and the tertiary audience (i.e., third persona) "may or may not have been part of the speaker's awareness, existing in the ...

  8. Narrative - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative

    In the restitution narrative, the person sees the illness as a temporary detour. The primary goal is to return permanently to normal life and normal health. These may also be called cure narratives. In the chaos narrative, the person sees the illness as a permanent state that will inexorably get worse, with no redeeming virtues.

  9. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_narrative_forms

    Epic – a very long narrative poem, often written about a hero or heroine and their exploits. Epic poem – a lengthy story of heroic exploits in the form of a poem. Essay - a short literary composition that reflects the author's outlook or point; Fable – a didactic story, often using animal characters who behave like people.