White Heron Review Terms

Question 1

The way a writer controls how fast a reader can move through a text; the speed at which the story unfolds

Answer 1

Narrative Pacing

Question 2

The re-creation of sensory experience by including details that relate to sound, sight, smell, taste, and touch (including temperature)

Answer 2

Imagery

Question 3

The narrative voice or perspective of the literary work.

Answer 3

Point of View

Question 4

A character (often the protagonist) tells the story in his or her own words

Answer 4

First Person

Question 5

The point of view used in the story “The White Heron” (with some variation)

Answer 5

Limited Omniscient

Question 6

Writers use this strategy to speed up the narrative pace

Answer 6

Dialogue

Question 7

Writers use this rhetorical mode to slow down the pace of a story

Answer 7

Description

Question 8

Perspective in which the narrator knows all and shares insight into the minds of several (or all) characters

Answer 8

Omnisient