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Literary techniques
Underreading
Literature; Literary techniques
The activity of neglecting material that is signified within a text.
Naturalising
Literature; Literary techniques
Culler's term for the operation by which readers or viewers impose familiarity on a narrative, usually by overreading or underreading.
Medium
Literature; Literary techniques
The vehicle conveying a narrative – written language, film, oil paint, fabric, lithe bodies moving silently on a stage.
Third-person narration
Literature; Literary techniques
Conventionally, narrative in which the narrator is not a character in the story, and the characters are referred to in the third person.
Temporal structure
Literature; Literary techniques
How the time of the narrative discourse relates to the time of the story. There are three major ways in which the time of the narrative discourse can depart from that of the story: 1) by rearranging ...
Second-person narration
Literature; Literary techniques
Narration in the second person ("You did this. You said that"). A comparatively rare grammatical choice for narration, it has been used increasingly in fiction and even autobiography.
Implied author
Literature; Literary techniques
Neither the real author nor the narrator, the implied author is the idea of the author constructed by the reader as she or he reads the narrative.
