Aesthetics: Narrative Self-correction
Description
When the narrator corrects, or significantly qualifies, an immediately preceding statement or account. JW
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
- Frame
- 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-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: Communication›Letter | Verbal›Command
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Cultural Issues: Class›Class consciousness | Class›White trash | Clothes›Shoes | Food›Race | Mass Media›Magazines
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Year›Fall
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Communication›Note | Communication›Writing | Mental›Deciding | Mental›Realization | Mental›Reinterpretation | Mental›Speculation | Mental›Thinking | Mental›Understanding | Perceptual›Ambiguity | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: History›Civil War | History›Civil War consequences | Region›Lost Cause | Region›The South | Religion›Divine judgment | Religion›Godhead | Religion›Providence | War›Defeat
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Military defeat | Absence/Loss›War | Inheritance›Traits | Meaning›Paternity | Memory›Haunted by past | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Old insult (abiding affront) | Story-telling›Audience response | Story-telling›Explaining | Texts›Note | Values›Sacrifice
Relationships: Hierarchical›Elder-younger | Intergenerational›Obligation
Cultural Issues: Gender›War | War›Return to war
Themes and Motifs: Death›In childbirth | Objects›Flowers
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Day›Sunset | Time of Year›Summer
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Second-person directed | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Auditory›Hoofbeats | Auditory›Tree / leaves
Aesthetics: Narrative›Chronological enjambment | Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Time of Year›June
Cultural Issues: Age›Youth | Class›Ambition | Class›Middle | Nationality›American | Politics›City government | Politics›Election | Progress›Cars | Progress›Ironies of | Progress›New replacing old
Themes and Motifs: Community›Social life
Relationships: Intergenerational›Conflict
Actions: Agricultural›Planting | Violent›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Character›Work ethic | Objects›Shotgun | Objects›Watermelon
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Bodily›Laughing | Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Curious | Moral›Deception | Physical›Nonverbal taunting or teasing | Physical›Running | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Yelling
Themes and Motifs: Death›Anticipation of death | Objects›Flashlight
Relationships: Familial›Grandparent-grandchild
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction | Tone›Humorous
Actions: Economic›Investing | Emotional›Surprise | Mental›Realization | Moral›Purification | Verbal›Cursing
Relationships: Commercial›Business partners
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›St. Louis | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Cultural Issues: Crime›Bootlegging | Crime›Murder | Technology›Car | Violence›Shooting
Themes and Motifs: Death›And inheritance | Death›Hearse | Money›Inheritance
Relationships: Marital›Death of spouse
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Year›Saturday
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Bodily›Crying | Emotional›Jealousy | Physical›Hitting | Physical›Throwing | Verbal›Cursing | Violent›Fighting | Violent›Slapping
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Baseball
Themes and Motifs: Body›Blood | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals | Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Perceptual›Spying | Verbal›Gossip
Themes and Motifs: Time›Awareness of time | Values›Propriety
Actions: Mental›Understanding
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Monument | Figures of Speech›Negation | Narrative›Self-correction | Symbolism
Environment: Domestic Space›Gallery | Time of Day›Daytime
Actions: Bodily›Looking | Work›Quitting job
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Farming life | Class›Snopesism | Sexuality›Illegitimacy | Sexuality›Pregnant out of wedlock
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Actions: Verbal›Explaining | Verbal›Family history | Verbal›Speculation
Cultural Issues: Gender›Female stereotype
Themes and Motifs: Naming›Importance of naming
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction
Environment: Public›Restaurant
Actions: Verbal›Cursing | Work›Losing job | Work›Restauranteer
Themes and Motifs: Character›Honesty | Recurring Tropes›Gossip
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Self-correction
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Class›Aristocratic posing | Class›Respectability | Class›Snopesism
Relationships: Familial›Parents-children | Social›Adversarial
Environment: Time of Year›Summer
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Rat | Animals›Termites | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival in Yoknapatawpha | Body›Face | Character›Ruthless
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Cultural Issues: Crime›Penalty for | Crime›Theft|Robbery | History›Civil War as point of reference | War›Confederate Army | War›Mercenary
Aesthetics: Narrative›Self-correction | Recurring Episodes›Ab's war wound
Cultural Issues: Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Mysterious
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Hierarchical›Landlord-tenant
Environment: Atmospheric›Cold
Actions: Bodily›Insomnia | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Character›Impotence | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Psychological›Obsession | Values›Honor