Narrative Mode

Question 1

epistolary novel

Answer 1

a novel written as a series of documents

Question 2

first person point of view

Answer 2

the story is told by one of its characters using the first person

Question 3

flashback

Answer 3

a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative

Question 4

flashforward

Answer 4

a literary device in which a later event is inserted into a narrative

Question 5

in medias res

Answer 5

(into the middle of things)
Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning, establishing setting, character, and conflict via flashback and expository conversations

Question 6

limited omniscient point of view

Answer 6

author tells the story, using third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears

Question 7

linear structure

Answer 7

plot that follows a straight-moving, cause and effect, chronological order

Question 8

objective point of view

Answer 8

author tells story, using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do;
author does not interpret their behavior or tell us their primate thoughts or feelings

Question 9

omniscient point of view

Answer 9

author tells story, using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do

Question 10

narrator

Answer 10

the speaker of voice of an oral or written work.
narrator is not usually the same person as the author. narrator is one of the three types of characters in a given work:
1) participant
2) observer
3) non participant
Direct window into a piece of work.

Question 11

nonlinear structure

Answer 11

when the plot is presented in a non-causal order, with events presented in a random series jumping to and from the main plot with flashbacks or flashforwards; or in any other manner that is either not chronological or not cause and effect, for example, in medias res

Question 12

point of view

Answer 12

angle of vision from which a story is told

Question 13

stream of conciousness

Answer 13

narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author

Question 14

unreliable narrator

Answer 14

a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised, usually first person narrators