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Analysing Narrators
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- 1STORYEvents and the participants experiencing them (including themes, motifs, setting and characters).
- 2DISCOURSEThe way in which the story is told to the reader.
- 3EXTRADIEGETICThe narration is not told by a character (SNSM).
- 4INTRADIEGETICThe narrator is a character in a story (WH).
- 5EX and HTNarrator 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).
- 6EX and HMThe narrator has no other narrator above him/her but relates events experienced by him/herself (talking in the 'I' form).
- 7IN and HTAn embedded narrator relates events which he/she has not experienced (e.g. a character telling a fairytale in a story).
- 8IN and HMAn embedded narrator relates events in which he/she has taken part.
- 9FOCALIZATIONWho perceives the events in the story.
- 10INTERNAL FOC.Belongs to the fictional world (WH and Ned).
- 11EXTERNAL FOC.Remains outside the fictional world (like a camera registering the action for the reader) (SNSM and Truman).
- 12STABILITYThere can be a range of focalizers.
- 13FIXED FOC.If the events are perceived by one single agent (SNSM).
- 14MULTIPLE FOC.If the events are perceived by various characters (WH).
- 15INDIRECT STYLEUsing a character's thoughts as part of the narration (SNSM).
- 16CHARACTERIZATIONThis relates to how the narrator builds and shows the characters to the reader.
- 17DIRECT CHARAC.The narrator explicitly discusses the personality/appearance of a character (Arthur's best clothes/Heathcliff a gypsy).
- 18INDIRECT 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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- As/A2 English (Books) FlashCards sobre Analysing Narrators, criado por Cara Dudgeon em 30-04-2015.
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