Beginnings
Fictional explanation of how a story came into being.
What is a Framing Device?
Two ways to answer how a story is told.
What are 1) in what sequence? and
2) who is speaking and from what point of view?
In media res
What is beginning a story in the middle of the story? (What is telling a later what happened earlier in the story?)
3 Reasons a narrator could be unreliable.
I will decide correct answer.
Two types of narrative point of view.
What are limited and omniscient?
Novel written in letters.
What is an epistolary novel?
Two ways to answer How is a story told? in terms of structure.
What are sequence and division? [In what order are we told things? How is one part of the narrative divided from another?]
Technique that can help the fiction masquerade as an old tale or a found tale.
What is a Framing Device?
Potential knowledge characters' thoughts.
What is omniscience?
The way that the Novel in English began (in terms of narration).
What is men writing as women?
Novel that begins "with the beginning of my life."
What is Charles Dickens's David Copperfield?
Problems with recollection.
What is it contradicts human experience?
A critical introduction to a story
What is a prolegomenon?
Inventor of term "unreliable narrator."
Who is Wayne C. Booth?
What is Cloud Atlas?