Aesthetics: Narrative Reported narration
Description
For when a character reports what some other character has told him/her about something that has happened - typically for things that the narrator was not present to see in person. -JBP
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
- 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 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
Cultural Issues: Class›Dehumanization | Class›Power | Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Slave trading
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Hierarchical›Leader
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Movement›Swimming | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Named bear Ben
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Physical›Pursuit | Violent›Animal predatory behavior
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Values›Courage | Values›Loyalty
Relationships: Interspecies›Man-dog
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Hunting›Bear hunting | Hunting›Injury | Violent›Killing of animals
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Named bear Ben | Animals›Named dog Lion | Death›Animal bear | Objects›knife
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Doctoring
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Borrowing | Hunting›Fox hunting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Deafness
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Construction tools
Aesthetics: Language›Grammatically incorrect | Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Verbal›Complaining | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Transactional
Cultural Issues: Gender
Relationships: Familial›Uncle-nephew | Sexual›Extramarital
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Place›Hotel | Time of Day›Pre-dawn | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Master-servant
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Child-adult
Aesthetics: Diction›Double entendre | Narrative›Reported narration | Tone›Sarcastic
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Boss-employee
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Asking for money | Emotional›Crying | Verbal›Conversation | Verbal›Cursing
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Verbal›Conversation
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Economic›Scamming | Physical›Escape from confinement | Verbal›Conversation
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Emotional›Anger | Emotional›Crying | Moral›Exploitation | Movement›Carriage | Verbal›Cursing
Cultural Issues: Gender›Double standard
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Money|Wealth | Character›Blackguard
Relationships: Sexual›Extramarital | Social›Adversarial
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Chaos | Domestic Space›Home | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Relationships: Familial›Extended family
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Supper | Time of Year›Christmas Eve
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›As anaesthetic
Relationships: Familial›Extended family | Interracial›Domestic
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Actions: Emotional›Fear | Mental›Remembering | Military›Escape | Movement›Limping | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Shooting
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›Summer
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Whiskey | Clothes›Bonnet | Clothes›Boots | Health and Illness›Deafness | History›Prohibition
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Animals›Horses | Objects›Books | Objects›Keys | Objects›Locks | Objects›Silver
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee | Interspecies›Man-dog
Cultural Issues: Class›Snopesism | Education›Primary school
Themes and Motifs: Character›Ambitious | Naming›Child's name
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Place›Power Plant
Cultural Issues: Government›Audit
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile | Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Domestic Space›Yard | Weather›Fog
Cultural Issues: Gender›Men vs women
Environment: Atmospheric›Moonlit | Domestic Space›Bedroom
Environment: Atmospheric›Creepy
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Flashlight
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Aesthetics: Narrative›Reported narration
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Cultural Issues: Gender›Maternal impulse
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration
Themes and Motifs: Time›Just in time
Actions: Bodily›Hungering | Communication›Telephone | Movement›Car | Physical›Apprehending
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular | Narrative›Reported narration