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- Stream of consciousness
- This narrator fluctuates from one character to character, from point of view to point of view.
- Personal or first-person narrative
- The narrator is the main character of this story and is telling the audience only his/her side of the story. This renders a very intimate personalized version of the story's events, but the audience can only guess at what other characters are thinking or what is motivating them.
- Rhythm
- The sense of meter the audience recieves from the pattern of accentedand unaccented syllables.
- Omniscient third person narrative
- The narrator is a person completely detached from the story and knows all the story's action, including each character's modivation and thoughts, what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future.
- Poetic diction
- The individual author's choice of words and level of formality of language used in a poem.
- Poem
- Apiece of writing that captures an aethetic experience in a profound, moving way.
- Limited third-person narrative
- The narrator is a supporting character in the story who tells that they know from their own vantage. It is more emotional than an omniscient narrator, but much less imformative. You don't have the access to the main characters motivation as you would with a personal narrator, but it is a less biased rendition, and perhapes less egocentric.
- Quatrain
- Astanza of poetry containing four lines that share similar or identical meter and recognizable rhyming scheme.
- Round character
- A character that frequently acts of reacts in new or surprising ways. This character is difficult to understand at first; he or she may take a great deal of time to reveal him or herself completely. This is not synonymous with a dynamic character because it does not necessarily have to change; it just takes longer to find out what he or she is like.
- Prose
- What we might vulgarly refere to as "normal" writing, it is writing that features niether rhythm nor rhyme; it is the most frequently used type of verbal expression.
- Point of View
- The narrator of a piece of fiction, or the "voice" with which the author decides to tell a story. There are five different points of view.
- Dramatic narrative
- The story, in this case, is narrated through the dialogue of the characters. This narrative style is used in dramas.
- Persona
- Part of the dramatic structure of a poem, it is the speaker or voice telling the story of the poem.
- Plot
- The structured organization of events of incidences in a narrative. There are three basic structural plot patterns: linear, cumulative, and episodic.