Aesthetics: Narrative Frame
Description
Though somewhat obvious, this refers to a "nested" narrative where a story is told by someone to someone else. The example here is the opening of The Reivers, where the entire text is framed as being told to Lucius III by Lucius II. JB
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Adage
- African-American folk sayings
- Alternative story
- Anti-climax
- Anticipation
- Argument
- Background
- Child's perspective
- Chronological enjambment
- Collaborative narration
- Commentary
- Communal narrative
- Conjectural narration
- Contested
- Conversation with oneself
- Cyclical
- Delayed revelation
- Disruption
- Epiphany
- Fantasy
- First-person
- First-person passim
- First-person passim throughout section
- First-person plural passim
- First-person vernacular
- First-person vernacular passim
- Flash forward
- Foreshadowing
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- Imagined conversation
- Indeterminacy
- Irony
- Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
- Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
- Narrative anomaly
- Narrative shift
- Origin
- Parentheses
- Pause
- Perspective
- Present-time reference
- Quotation as thought
- Reconstructed
- Repetition
- Reported narration
- Reported narration passim
- Reported narration passim in section
- Resumption of sentence after interruption
- Revision
- Revisionary
- Second-person directed
- Self-correction
- Self-Reflective
- Stream of consciousness narration
- Summary
- Suspended|Resumed
- Suspense
- Temporal discontinuity
- Temporal projection
- Theatrical effect
- Under oath
- Unidentified character
- Unreliable narrator
- Withholding
Tagged Events
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Rural sales
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Actions: Bodily›Hiccups | Verbal›Storytelling
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Tall tale | Narrative›Frame
Themes and Motifs: Past›Old days | Story-telling›Old days
Actions: Interaction, Private›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Human experience
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Explorers | Narrative›Frame
Relationships: Familial
Cultural Issues: Race›Segregation
Environment: Domestic Space›House | Place›Jefferson | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Bodily›Sitting | Communication›Listening | Communication›Speaking | Communication›Writing | Emotional›Indignation | Emotional›Resentment | Mental›Predicting | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Giving advice | Verbal›Monologue | Verbal›Speculation | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Age›Generation gap | Age›Old age | Age›Youth vs age | Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Women | Identity, Cultural›South vs North | Mass Media›Magazines | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home | Objects›Chair | Objects›Magazine | Philosophical›Power of literature | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Story-telling›Story-telling passim | Time›Anticipation | Time›Future
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational
Aesthetics: Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Metafictional›Projection | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection | Tone›Ironic | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Atmospheric›Familiar
Actions: Communication›Messenger | Perceptual›Hearing | Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Cultural Identity›Southern identity | Education›Informal | Group Mentality›Community collective | Region›The South
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Collective memory | Memory›Remembering | Past›Past in present | Story-telling›Communal mythology | Story-telling›Reminiscence | Time›Awareness of time
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Background | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Domestic Space›House | Time of Day›Dusk | Time of Day›Evening
Actions: Communication›Listening | Emotional›Waiting | Interaction, Private›Breaking marriage engagement | Movement›Buggy | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Dialogue | Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Questioning | Verbal›Speculation | Violent›Destructive behavior
Cultural Issues: Gender›Chivalry | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | History›Civil War as point of reference | Region›The South | War›Civil War consequences | War›Destruction
Themes and Motifs: Community›Secrecy | Determinism›Genetic | Inheritance›Hereditary culpability | Inheritance›Inheritance of wrong | Inheritance›Traits | Morals›Chivalry | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Open secret | Recurring Tropes›Scandal | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Family oral tradition | Supernatural›Ghost | Supernatural›Haunting | Time›Anticipation
Relationships: Ancestral›Generational succession | Familial›Father-son | Friendship›Adult friends | Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Romantic›Engagement
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Ghost | Figures of Speech›Skeleton | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Flash forward | Narrative›Foreshadowing | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Parentheses
Actions: Interaction, Social›Concealment | Interaction, Social›Gentleman's agreement | Movement›Riding | Physical›Hiding | Physical›Protection | Verbal›Accusatory | Verbal›Storytelling | Verbal›Talking | Verbal›Telling
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›Gentility | Class›Pretension | Class›Respectability | Cultural Identity›Outlander | Gender›And marriage | Gender›Gentleman | Gender›Women | Gender›Women as sacred | Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Community›Opinion | Community›Supportive | Morals›Honor | Naming›Not knowing person or thing's name | Objects›Pistol | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Recurring Tropes›Secret | Values›Moral authority
Relationships: Civic›Pillar of the community | Marital›Social respectability | Romantic›Potential | Social›Adversarial
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Actions: Verbal›Explaining
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Cousin | Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection