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Flashcards by Cara Dudgeon, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Cara Dudgeon
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| STORY | Events and the participants experiencing them (including themes, motifs, setting and characters). |
| DISCOURSE | The way in which the story is told to the reader. |
| EXTRADIEGETIC | The narration is not told by a character (SNSM). |
| INTRADIEGETIC | The narrator is a character in a story (WH). |
| EX and HT | Narrator hovers above the story, has not experienced what he/she is relating to the reader (like a God, talking about characters in the third person). |
| EX and HM | The narrator has no other narrator above him/her but relates events experienced by him/herself (talking in the 'I' form). |
| IN and HT | An embedded narrator relates events which he/she has not experienced (e.g. a character telling a fairytale in a story). |
| IN and HM | An embedded narrator relates events in which he/she has taken part. |
| FOCALIZATION | Who perceives the events in the story. |
| INTERNAL FOC. | Belongs to the fictional world (WH and Ned). |
| EXTERNAL FOC. | Remains outside the fictional world (like a camera registering the action for the reader) (SNSM and Truman). |
| STABILITY | There can be a range of focalizers. |
| FIXED FOC. | If the events are perceived by one single agent (SNSM). |
| MULTIPLE FOC. | If the events are perceived by various characters (WH). |
| INDIRECT STYLE | Using a character's thoughts as part of the narration (SNSM). |
| CHARACTERIZATION | This relates to how the narrator builds and shows the characters to the reader. |
| DIRECT CHARAC. | The narrator explicitly discusses the personality/appearance of a character (Arthur's best clothes/Heathcliff a gypsy). |
| INDIRECT CHARAC. | The narrator portrays a character through their habits, actions, speech and thought (Hindley and the arm/Judge Arthur this way). |
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