ENGB03H3 Lecture Notes - Picaresque Novel, Diegesis, Uch
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Directly citing a character"s own words set off from the narration by quotation marks or other indicators like he said, . Example: he threw his glove on the pavement, the tears welling in his eyes, and said, this is it, rodney. I must ask you to choose your weapon. Speech or thinking of a character rendered in the narrator"s own words. Example: he threw his glove on the pavement, the tears welling in his eyes, and said that he saw no alternative but that. Rodney should choose his weapon: free indirect discourse: Narrative is the representation of events in time (abbott, p. xii). *n+arrative is the representation of an event or a series of events. Event" is the key word here, though some people prefer the word action. " without an event or an action, you may have a description," an exposition," an argument," a.
