Point of view Flashcards
1
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3rd person point of view
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the narrator seems to be privileged and to know everything about the characters’ thoughts and feelings
2
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first person point of view
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- we enter a character’s mind - often makes for more dramatic narration since we follow his secret thoughts and can identify with him/her - gives us a restricted view of the other characters and the discourse can be biased or unreliable
3
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internal focalization
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- the events are seen from inside the story, most of the t time through the subjective angle of vision of one of the characters (the focalizer) - the interior monologue is one form of internal focalization
4
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external focalization
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the events are seen from the point of view of someone who is exterior to the story
5
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multiple focalization
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- a sort of internal focalization - the point of view shifts from one character to another in the course of the narrative
6
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zero focalization
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- a sort of external focalization - the vision is an outside, objective one
7
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the narrator seems to be privileged and to know everything about the characters’ thoughts and feelings
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3rd person point of view
8
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- we enter a character’s mind - often makes for more dramatic narration since we follow his secret thoughts and can identify with him/her - gives us a restricted view of the other characters and the discourse can be biased or unreliable
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first person point of view
9
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- the events are seen from inside the story, most of the t time through the subjective angle of vision of one of the characters (the focalizer) - the interior monologue is one form of internal focalization
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internal focalization
10
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the events are seen from the point of view of someone who is exterior to the story
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external focalization
11
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- a sort of internal focalization - the point of view shifts from one character to another in the course of the narrative
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multiple focalization
12
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- a sort of external focalization - the vision is an outside, objective one
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zero focalization
