LIT-2020 Lecture Notes - Christmas Seal, Morphine
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Many literary forms are told by narrator: pov: way story gets told. Established by an author by means of which the reader is presented with the characters, dialogue, actions, setting, and events which constitute the narrative in a work of fiction: third person narrative: told by someone outside the story. Aim was to create a mood, an ambience, or an effect: begin with first sentence, have nothing in it that detracts from the design. Should lead directly and inevitably to conclusion without excess. Get to the point and stay there: aim for truth, stress imagination, invention, creation and originality, five components that construct short story, character. Flat character: built around a single idea or quality and is presented without much detail (background nerds in saved by the bell) Round character: complex in temperament and motivation is represented with subtle particularity; such a character is as difficult to describe with adequacy as a person in real life (walter white in.
