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.

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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

A character who seems naïve may have a moment of sudden insight.

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

Narration that tries to imitate the patterns of real thought.

How close the reader feels to the story's characters and events.

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

Unreliable narrators create tension by raising questions about the story's truth. Apex::::

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

The psychic distance is large because the reader sees the characters from the outside

Indirect characterization is when the author conveys something about a character through how they act or speak rather than saying it in the narration. So an example of indirect characterization is anything that shows who a person rather than something like, "She was a very angry person."

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