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Literary techniques
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Literary techniques
Interpretation
Literature; Literary techniques
The act of expressing in one's own way the meanings – including ideas, values, and feelings – communicated by a text.
Adaptation
Literature; Literary techniques
The transmutation of a narrative, usually from one medium to another.
Distance
Literature; Literary techniques
Used in two main senses: 1) the narrator's emotional distance fromthe characters and the action (the degree of his or her involvement in the story); and 2) the distance between the narrator'smoral, ...
Fiction
Literature; Literary techniques
Made-up, as opposed to factual. As a noun it refers to the whole range of made-up narratives that stand opposed to "nonfictional" genres of narrative like history, biography, autobiography, ...
Crux
Literature; Literary techniques
A critical point, often a gap, in a fictional narrative where there is an insufficiency of cues, or where cues are sufficiently ambiguous, to create a major disagreement in the intentional ...
Discordant narrator
Literature; Literary techniques
A narrator whose perceptions and moral sensibilities differ from those of the implied author.
Author
Literature; Literary techniques
A real person who creates a text. The author is not to be confused with either the narrator or the implied author of a narrative.
