Literary techniques

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personification

Literature; Literary techniques

Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing.

exegesis

Literature; Literary techniques

Critical explanation and interpretation of a text.

authorial intention

Literature; Literary techniques

The author’s intended meanings or effects.

third-person narration

Literature; Literary techniques

Conventionally, narrative in which the narrator is not a character in the story, and the characters are referred to in the third person.

How the time of the narrative discourse relates to the time of the story. There are three major ways in which the time of the narrative discourse can depart from that of the story: 1) by rearranging ...

symptomatic reading

Literature; Literary techniques

Decoding a text as symptomatic of the author’s unconscious or unacknowledged state of mind, or of unacknowledged cultural conditions. Generally opposed to intentional reading.