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gap

Literature; Literary techniques

The inevitable voids, large or small, in any narrative that the reader is called upon to fill from his or her experience or imagination.

gutter

Literature; Literary techniques

The space between frames in a cartoon comic sequence. The gutter is a form of narrative gap that is built into the medium of the comic strip. It is the space in which the reader imagines events ...

happening

Literature; Literary techniques

One of the two kinds of event in a narrative. Unlike actions, happenings occur without the specific agency of a character.

Narrative conveyed in electronic media that capitalizes on hypertext capability to permit (or require) the reader to switch attention instantly to other lexia – texts or graphics, which may (but not ...

implied author

Literature; Literary techniques

Neither the real author nor the narrator, the implied author is the idea of the author constructed by the reader as she or he reads the narrative.

implied reader

Literature; Literary techniques

The implied reader is the reader we infer to be an intended recipient of the narrative.

intentional reading

Literature; Literary techniques

1. The practice of planning one's reading carefully by choosing the number of, type of, or particular books one most wants to read within a given period of time, (e.g., for school, pleasure, or ...