Classical Narrative

Question 1

Omniscient Narration

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A version of third person narration in which all elements of the plot are presented from many or all potential angles.

Question 2

Restricted Narration

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A third person narrative which organizes stories by focusing on one or two characters.

Question 3

First Person Narration

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Form of narration that isolates the view to one character and uses the word “I”

Question 4

Invisible Editing

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(Also known as continuity editing) A style of editing associated with the classical narrative style. It uses cuts and other transitions to establish a coherent time and space and to tell a story efficiently and clearly.

Question 5

Classical Narrative

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• It centers on one or more central characters who propel the plot with a cause-and-effect logic (whereby an action generates a reaction.)
• Its plots develop with linear chronologies directed at certain goals (even when flashbacks are integrated into that linearity.)
• It employs an omniscient or a restrained narration that suggests some degree of realism.
• Often appears as a 3 part structure: The presentation of a situation or a circumstance, the disruption of that situation, often as a crisis or confrontation, and the resolution of that disruption.

Question 6

Plot

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The narrative ordering of the events of the story as they appear in the actual work, selected and arranged according to particular temporal, spatial, generic, causal, or other patterns.

Question 7

Story

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The subject matter or raw material of a narrative, or our reconstruction of the events of a narrative based on what is explicitly shown and ordered in the plot.

Question 8

Narrative Ellipses

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The omission of a section of the story that is either obvious enough for the public to fill in or concealed for a narrative purpose, such as suspense or mystery.

Question 9

Goal-Oriented Protagonist

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A hero who is drawn into a situation which he must resolve in some way.

Question 10

Deadline Structure

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A narrative structure that accelerates the action and plot toward a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.

Question 11

Reflexive Narration

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A mode of narration that calls attention to the narrative point of view of the story in order to complicate or subvert its own narrative authority as an objective perspective on the world.

Question 12

Unreliable Narration

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A type of narration that raises questions about the truth of the story being told; also called manipulative narration.

Question 13

Objective Realism

Answer 13

Wide shot, deep focus, true continuity

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