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    Fiction

    The features of a narrative text


    Performer - Culture & Literature
    Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella,
    Margaret Layton © 2012
    The features of a narrative text

    1. The novel
    The commonest form of fiction as a genre is the novel.

    The novel
    • depicts imaginary events and characters. They are
    representative of real life;
    • is written in prose, rather than verse;
    • is a narrative;
    • has characters, actions and a plot: it involves
    people who act in a context ruled by chronology,
    cause-and-effect;
    • involves an investigation of an issue of human
    significance whose complexity requires a certain
    length.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    2. The setting
    The setting is the place and the time of the story.

    • Place setting can be interior or exterior (D. Defoe,


    Robinson Crusoe) it deals with the description of
    the landscape, interiors and objects.

    • Time setting usually refers to the time of the day, the


    season, the year; social historical factors are also
    important.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    3. The story / the plot


    A narrative text is made up of the story

    a sequence of events always


    presented in chronological order

    The author can combine these events in different ways


    using flashbacks, anticipation of events or by omitting
    details of the story. This sequence of events is the plot.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    4. Narrative modes
    and the point of view
    The author chooses the way to tell his story among
    1. dialogue;
    2. description;
    3. narration.
    These modes are usually interwoven.

    The point of view is the angle/s from which the scene is


    described and the story told. It is influenced by the kind
    of narrator.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    5. The narrative techniques


    The first-person narrator

    • employs the I mode,


    • can coincide with the author or a character.

    The choice of this narrator can have the following functions:


    • to bring the reader close to the mind and feelings of the
    narrator;
    • to convey an impression of reality;
    • to restrict the reader’s view.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    5. The narrative techniques


    The third-person narrator
    • knows everything about the actions and the
    characters’ thoughts and intentions;
    • is also called omniscient.

    obtrusive unobtrusive
    when he addresses the reader when he is
    directly making personal remarks detached and
    or providing a comment on the objective and does
    society of the time, on some of not interfere with
    the characters of the story the story

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    6. The characters
    The presentation of a character can be:

    • direct, through the description which the writer makes of


    his/her personality and appearance;
    • indirect, when the reader has to infer the features of the
    character from his/her actions, reactions and behaviour.

    There can be major and minor characters depending on


    their role in the story.

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    6. The characters

    CHARACTERS can be

    round, when they change flat, when they do not


    their personality as the change throughout the story.
    narration develops and can They are the so-called
    even influence the plot stereotypes

    Performer- Culture&Literature
    The features of a narrative text

    7. The theme

    The THEME

    contains the message


    is the ideas the author tries
    whose interpretation leads to
    to convey by means
    an understanding of the
    of the story
    meaning of the text

    Performer- Culture&Literature

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