Particular ways of combining parts of the utterance (lincage). The arrangement of sentence members, the completeness of sentence structure naturally involve various types of connection used within the sentence or between sentences.
Particular use of colloquial constructions. In lively colloquial intercourse the emotional element is enforced not only by emphatic intonation, the structure itself is intended to carry some emotional charge. In writing deprived of intonation these emotional constructions assume a greater significance.
Types of narration
A work of creative prose is never homogenous as to the form and essence of the information it carries. Both very much depends on the viewpoint of the addresser, as the author and his personages may offer different angles of perception of the same object. Naturally, it is the author who organised this effect of polyphony but the readers identify various views with the personages.
The writer's views are most explicitly expressed in the author's narrative.
The unfolding of the plot is mainly concentrated here, personages are given characteristics, the time and place of action are also described here, as the author sees them. The author's narrative provides direct information about his preferences and objections, beliefs and contradictions, i.e. serves the major source of shaping up the author's image.
In contemporary prose to impress the reader with authenticity of the described events, the writer entrusts some fictitious character (who participates in the narrated events) with the task of story-telling. All the events of the story are presented from the character's viewpoint. This form is called entrusted narrative. Of course, the author (the actual creator of it all) serves the major force of textual cohesion and unity. Entrusted narrative can be carried out in the 1st person singular when the narrator proceeds with his story from his own name:
e.g. Halden himself retells about the crises in his life. ("The Catcher in the Rye " by Salinger).
"The Great Gatsby" by S. Fitzgerald, where Nick Carraway tells about Jay Gatsly whom he met occasionally so that to tell Gatsly's life story he had to lean on the knowledge of other personages too.
Entrusted narrative may also be anonymous. The narrator does not claim responsibility for the views and evaluations but the manner of presentations but the story is not told by the author but by some of his factotum (the prose E. Hemingway, E. Caldwell, K. Mansfield, CM. Cullers).
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