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
- 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
Actions: Verbal›Storytelling
Themes and Motifs: Story-telling›Story-telling passim
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Relationships: Familial›Cousin | Familial›Grandparent-grandchild | Familial›Uncle-nephew
Aesthetics: Narrative›First-person | Narrative›Frame | Narrative›Temporal projection