ENG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unreliable Narrator
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Setting: time, weather, place (general context of where the story takes place) Point of view: who tells us the story and how it"s told. Editorial omniscience: evaluates character for the reader. Neutral omniscience: allows characters actions and thoughts to speak for themselves. Limited omniscient: narrator is restricted to a single perspective of either a major or minor character. Stream of consciousness technique: a narrator who doesn"t see into the mind of any character. Objective point of view: a narrator who doesn"t see into the mind of any character. Unreliable narrator: interpretation of events is different from the authors. Naive narrator: narrator lacks the sophistication to interpret what they see accurately. Symbol: person, object, or even that suggests more than its literal meaning. Conventional symbol: symbols that are widely recognized by a society or culture. Literary symbol: traditional, conventional, or public meanings, but it may also be established internally by the total context of the work.
