Narrative Techniques
By Group 3
What are narrative techniques?
Narrative Techniques are the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. .
Types of Narrative Techniques
Irony
Stream of Consciousness
Imagery
Backstory
In media res
Symbolism
Foreshadowing
Tone
Satire
Dialogue
What do they do?
Narrative techniques help an author creatively express a narrative to assist a reader in picturing it more vividly.
The Two Grandmothers
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
Stream of Consciousness
The main character and narrator is a curious young girl getting understand the world. Many of her sentences ramble on without many full stops and punctuation to show the constant running of ideas in her mind, questions that are still to be answered. The technique is effective in portraying the innocence and youth of the character.
Point of View
The use of first person narrative point of view in the story helps readers to understand the sheer childish exhuberance and curiosity the narrator feels, from a direct perspective.This point of view also faciltates the indirect characterization of her grandmothers because the narrator is too naive to notice their true colours.
Bildungsroman
The story follows this narrative style/ technique by it's very definition. The story traces the growth and maturity of the main character from childhood into adulthood by showing contrast in how she thinks and behaves. Her dramatic personality shift does the job very well and the story indirectly identifies the factors which lead to this.
To da-duh, in memoriam
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
Imagery
The narration of this story was rich with detail and visual description. Paule Marshall took every opportunity to outline in detail, the scenery of Barbados and New York. Not only places, but also people, like Da-Duh, whose physical description was higlighted to help pitcure the story in full detail.
Oxymoron
Da-Duh is said to be a cross between darkness and light, young and old. All ideas that are diametrically opposite in nature. While Da-Duh is a living oxymoron, the reader is presented throughout the text with the ideas of rural vs city and machine vs nature. The purpose in the end was to highlight each has it's advantages but are equally unavoidable aspects of life.
Foreshadowing
From we look at the title, we see, "In Memoriam", suggesting that Da-Duh dies eventually. This is also foreshadowed by the quote at the beginning about death. The stare down between Da-Duh and the main character previews future conflict between their personalities. The story suggests that Da-Duh was fearful of machines and progress several times, therefore we had an idea that she would come to face her fear, but instead of accepting it, chose to die.
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Narrative Techniques
By Group 3
What are narrative techniques?
Narrative Techniques are the methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. .
Types of Narrative Techniques
Irony
Stream of Consciousness
Imagery
Backstory
In media res
Symbolism
Foreshadowing
Tone
Satire
Dialogue
What do they do?
Narrative techniques help an author creatively express a narrative to assist a reader in picturing it more vividly.
The Two Grandmothers
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
Stream of Consciousness
The main character and narrator is a curious young girl getting understand the world. Many of her sentences ramble on without many full stops and punctuation to show the constant running of ideas in her mind, questions that are still to be answered. The technique is effective in portraying the innocence and youth of the character.
Point of View
The use of first person narrative point of view in the story helps readers to understand the sheer childish exhuberance and curiosity the narrator feels, from a direct perspective.This point of view also faciltates the indirect characterization of her grandmothers because the narrator is too naive to notice their true colours.
Bildungsroman
The story follows this narrative style/ technique by it's very definition. The story traces the growth and maturity of the main character from childhood into adulthood by showing contrast in how she thinks and behaves. Her dramatic personality shift does the job very well and the story indirectly identifies the factors which lead to this.
To da-duh, in memoriam
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
Imagery
The narration of this story was rich with detail and visual description. Paule Marshall took every opportunity to outline in detail, the scenery of Barbados and New York. Not only places, but also people, like Da-Duh, whose physical description was higlighted to help pitcure the story in full detail.
Oxymoron
Da-Duh is said to be a cross between darkness and light, young and old. All ideas that are diametrically opposite in nature. While Da-Duh is a living oxymoron, the reader is presented throughout the text with the ideas of rural vs city and machine vs nature. The purpose in the end was to highlight each has it's advantages but are equally unavoidable aspects of life.
Foreshadowing
From we look at the title, we see, "In Memoriam", suggesting that Da-Duh dies eventually. This is also foreshadowed by the quote at the beginning about death. The stare down between Da-Duh and the main character previews future conflict between their personalities. The story suggests that Da-Duh was fearful of machines and progress several times, therefore we had an idea that she would come to face her fear, but instead of accepting it, chose to die.