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  2. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    The author uses narrative and stylistic devices to create the sense of an unedited interior monologue, characterized by leaps in syntax and punctuation that trace a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. The outcome is a highly lucid perspective with a plot. Not to be confused with free writing. An example is Ulysses. At one ...

  3. Focalisation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, which is known as "the classic example of first-person narrative" A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre (1847), [ 1 ] in which the title character is telling the story in which she herself is also the protagonist: [ 6 ] "I could not unlove him now ...

  5. Point of view - Wikipedia

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    Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronoun used in narration; Point of view (philosophy), an attitude how one sees or thinks of something; Point-of-view shot, a technique in motion photography; Point of view (pornography), a subset of gonzo pornography in which the performer also holds the ...

  6. Narration - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - Wikipedia

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    Instead, try to rewrite the passage or section to achieve a more neutral tone. Biased information can usually be balanced with material cited to other sources to produce a more neutral perspective, so such problems should be fixed when possible through the normal editing process. Remove material when you have a good reason to believe it ...

  8. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In literature an author sets the tone through word choice that create imagery, perspective, tone, subject matter, and more. [14] The possible tones are bounded only by the number of possible emotions a human being can have. Diction and syntax often dictate what the author's (or character's) attitude toward his subject is at the time. An example ...

  9. Formalism (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence.