Focalisation in Literature Quiz

Direct characterisation and indirect characterisation.

The narrator, another character in the narrative, or the characters themselves.

Through his or her speech, behaviour, thoughts, appearance, and other implicit means.

<p>Text is a communicative occurrence which meets seven standards of textuality (cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality and intertextuality).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The focus has been transferred from sentences to linguistic units larger than sentences — text.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There has been a long debate within the field of language studies about whether it is possible to classify texts and whether such a classification is useful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internal focalisation means the narrator's knowledge and the character's knowledge are equal because the narrator is restricted to the character's perspective. External focalisation means the narrator knows more than the character and says more than the character knows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free Indirect Speech is a discursive conflation in which a third-person narrator approximates as closely as possible a character's own words without letting it speak directly. It occurs when the external focaliser identifies with the internal one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Diegesis is the verbal representation of events and the essence is to 'tell' or 'report' information within a text. Mimesis is the direct presentation of speech and action and the essence is to 'show' or 'perform' events. Diegetic writing makes us feel distant, mimetic writing makes us feel as though we are eyewitnesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Round characters are like 'complex' persons, who undergo a change in the course of the story, and remain capable of surprising the reader. Flat characters are stable, they exhibit nothing surprising.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fabula is the story's chronological sequence of events, while the syuzhet is the way in which those events are presented in the narrative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A homodiegetic narrator is a character in the story they are telling, while a heterodiegetic narrator is not a character in the story but has knowledge of it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focalisation indicates the ratio of knowledge between the narrator and the characters, and can affect the reader's understanding and interpretation of events in the story.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Existents are the characters and setting in a story that make things happen or have things happen to them, and are part of the story's overall events and sequence of events.</p> Signup and view all the answers