Aesthetics: Narrative Imagined conversation
Description
When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR
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
- Frame
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- 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: Domestic›Food preparation | Perceptual›Hearing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Texts›Newspapers | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Interracial›White-black
Cultural Issues: Education›Illiteracy | Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Values›Family honor
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Immigrant neighborhood | Natural›River | Place›Houses | Place›Road | Place›Stone wall
Actions: Economic›Gifting | Interaction, Private›Strangers in a public place | Movement›Running away | Movement›Walking | Verbal›Bidding farewell / Saying goodbye
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Italian | Gender›Women as mysterious / secretive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Abandonment | Money›Coin | Recurring Tropes›Little sister
Relationships: Friendship›Adult-child
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation
Actions: Moral›Confession | Verbal›Confession | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Morals›Honor | Objects›Flowers Dogwood | Objects›Flowers Milkweed | Objects›Flowers Roses | Values›Honor
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Relationships: Interracial›Boss-employee
Cultural Issues: Class›Social mobility | Class›Town v. country/farm | Clothes›And class | Clothes›Overalls | Economy›Banking | Economy›Tenantry|Share-cropping
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Crime›Embezzlement | Economy›Commerce
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Psychological›Manipulation
Actions: Verbal›Rhetorical question
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Psychological›Motivation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Country store
Themes and Motifs: Character›Reputation
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter | Marital›Husband-wife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Symbolism›Created by characters
Actions: Mental›Fantasizing
Themes and Motifs: Time›Town clock
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Office | Time of Day›Morning
Aesthetics: Narrative›Imagined conversation | Typography/Orthography›Italics