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Literary techniques

paratext

Literature; Literary techniques

Emmanuel Genette in narrative, in addition to material termfor linked somehow to him.Paratexts can be physically attached to the narrative of the vehicle ("the peritexts"): prefaces, tables of ...

symptomatic reading

Literature; Literary techniques

Decoding a text as symptomatic of the unconscious or without acknowledgment of the author of mind, or unacknowledged cultural conditions. Generally opposed to intentional reading.

Dierct style

Literature; Literary techniques

The direct expression of a character's speech or thought, either "untagged" or "tagged" (set off from the narration by quotation marks and other indicators like "he said," "she thought")

Constituent events

Literature; Literary techniques

Constituent events are essential to the forward movement of the story; they are not all necessarily "turning points," but at the least they are essential to the chain of events that make up the ...

Autobiography

Literature; Literary techniques

A narrative about the author, purporting implicitly or explicitly to be true in the sense of nonfictional.

Agency

Literature; Literary techniques

The capacity of an entity to cause events (that is, to engage in acts). Characters by and large are entities with agency.

Action

Literature; Literary techniques

The sequence of events in a story. The action and the entities are the two basic components of story.

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