Literature and Language

Stream of consciousness is writing or saying everything that comes into your head in a continuous stream. Some novels have sections or are written wholly in a stream of consciousness, for example, "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf.

The topic sentence, the body with supporting sentences, and the clincher sentence

f is a piecewise smooth funtion on [a,b] if f and f ' are piecewise continuous on [a,b]

A third-person limited narrator does not have to speak in the character's voice.

To create an illusion of being inside the character's thoughts

She doesn't care what her husband thinks

Katia was going to teach them a lesson they'd never forget.

No way, she thought, this is ridiculous.

There once lived a miserly, miserable old man.

How close am I to the character's thoughts

A liar

A child

By noticing the way the narrator observes and interprets the world

How honestly does the narrator represent the world

Does the narrator have something to hide/cover up. Does he have reason to "pad the truth"

Does the narrator actually understand what is going on

Is the narrator biased

Does the narrator contradict what he/she says

A reader may not connect with a character who seems dishonest.

It becomes larger, moving from head to outside

A larger psychic distance usually creates a less inimate tone.

A closer psychic distance can create a more intimate tone.

a man stands alone, in costume, on an empty stage

The writer wants to write from one characters perspective only. Apex

to show a moment from slightly diffferent perspective

Have the narrator slip and reveal an unexpected fact.
Let another character suggest the truth.

How formal does the writing seem

The feeling or attitude the writing suggests

The writer wants you to realize that the narrator is unreliable, and to take everything they've said with a grain of salt.

a narrator who doees not view similarly like others

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