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indirect style

Literature; Literary techniques

Speech or thinking of a character rendered in the narrator’s own words: “It was a hot day. Elspeth asked herself why she should be lugging stones on a day such as that.”

Third-personnarration in whicha character’s thoughts or expressions are presented in the character’s voice without being set off by quotation marks or the usual addition of phrases like “he thought” ...

first-person narration

Literature; Literary techniques

Conventionally, narration by a character who plays a role in the story narrated.

forking-path narrative

Literature; Literary techniques

Narrative in which two or more incompatible worlds cohabit in the same diegetic level.

electronic narrative

Literature; Literary techniques

Now used primarily to refer to narrative forms that take advantage of computer and on-line technology to achieve effects unique to these media. These include, notably, effects enabled by the ...

embedded narrative

Literature; Literary techniques

Commonly, a “story within a story,” or a narrative nested in a framing narrative.

entity

Literature; Literary techniques

Also referred to as “existents” or “actors and actants,”entities comprise one of the two basic components of a story, the other being the events or action. Humanlike entities capable of agency are ...