The director, Christopher Nolan, employs certain filming techniques which highlight narrative continuity and rupture to encourage multiple viewings of the film and hence an active and in-depth viewing by the audience. ... It is through these disorientating techniques that Nolan leaves the field wide open for viewers to construct their own individual interpretation of events. Narrative continuity is essential in creating order and establishing sequential events. ... Narrative rupture within Memento encourages an active spectatorship and multiple viewings. ... Both of these filming techniq...

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Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. ... In order to do so, authors employ certain elements of narratives to further develop the reader's engagement and understanding of such a text. Through such techniques is the author able to engage the reader by drawing on the reader's context to further develop their conception of the issues and meanings presented in the text. ...

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In Miss Brill, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the reader can identify Mansfield's view on Miss Brill through the literary techniques the author uses; narrative intrusion, subtlety, and limited omniscience. Narrative intrusion is the first technique used by Mansfield. ... Another literary technique Mansfield uses is limited omniscience. ... Mansfield, however, incorporates another view of Miss Brill using this technique. ... By using techniques such as narrative intrusion, limited omniscience and subtlety, Mansfield can manipulate her true attitude towards Miss Brill and make the ...

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Salty taste of summer for Neptune's children Megan Jacobson's speech explores many powerful techniques and ideas, which collide together to form a very descriptive, powerful and inspirational narrative, that won her the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year 2001. The purpose of the narrative made by Megan Jacobson was to entertain the general public and to enjoy. ... In the last paragraph of the narrative there are a number of techniques used to finish the story off with a bang. ... Nothing during the narrative had any negative values to it and that is one reason why t...

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Wimberly This text provided me with a new technique for pastoral care and counseling. ... After reading this text, I became aware of how natural the use of personal narrative can be. In fact, it is something I have done many times in my own work, although I did not know it was actually a recognized "technique". ... A crisis causes an interruption and change in the life narrative of a person. ... Finally, Wimberly shares various other models of counseling which use the narrative approach. ...

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The naive narrative technique gives the animals' perspective, showing us that they notice things but don't really get it or necessarily observe it. ... Orwell's naive use of a narrative voice allows us as readers to be aware of more information than the narrator or any other characters; and using this knowledge to relate back to the historical events of the Russian Revolution. ... This simple retelling of animalistic violence shocks the readers more than if the violence had been told with a more complex narrative voice. ... This narrative technique and use of irony challenges t...

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Some criticisms of Citizen Kane include; its narrative structure is unduly complicated, its technique calls attention to itself and its intellectual content is superficial. ... While some people criticize this unusual structure as unduly complicated I think that the complexity of the narrative adds to the movie. ... Another Criticism of Citizen Kane is that the technique calls attention to itself. ...

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In the passage from the novel Alias Grace by Margret Atwood, the author uses many narrative techniques to convey the feelings and thoughts of the main character Grace Mark. ... The author obviously put a lot of thought and effort into the novel because the imagery is incredible and her narrative techniques convey Grace's unsteady state of mind and obvious delirium. ...

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The techniques that Joyce Carol Oates incorporated throughout "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been," are ineffective in making this a believable narrative. The one technique the author overused throughout the story is symbolism. ... The other techniques she used was foreshadowing and irony. ... Another technique the author used is irony. ... Is not a credible narrative because of the overuse of some literary techniques. ...

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This essay seeks to discover how Atkinson uses the past, footnotes, setting and her post modernist style as a technique in the treatment of time. The narrative is a common first person narrative, but at the same time, it is very unusual. ... This technique gives Ruby a more "knowing" voice that can see ahead of us but is still unable to share with us the withdrawn knowledge that she is trying to find out herself. ... Atkinson uses footnotes as another technique. ... In Behind the scenes at the museum, Atkinson is able to skilfully and originally bring her all her characters to life using...

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However, it does not, and it is probably due to the skills and techniques by which Lee used to tell her story. The narrative technique employed by Lee in this novel is the first person narrator stance with Jean Louise Finch's (the protagonist's) point of view. By definition, the first-person narrator technique refers to the method that is applied by having a major character relating his or her story. ... This is just one way of how the narrative techniques used by Lee raises the cognition level of her work. ... The structural unity provided by this narrative method has also kept...

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A 1st person narrative is no more, potentially, unreliable than any other kind of narrative technique (3rd person etc.). ... However, the first person narrative of "Enduring Love" cannot be stereotyped in this way. ... His narrative directly reflects that of scientists and the method in which they examine evidence. ... Joe introduces this overview of the buzzard suggesting that within his own narrative he is trying to be as unbiased as the buzzard would be, striving for the perfect narrative that sees and hears all. ... However, the first person narrative in "Enduring Love", though unreliabl...

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Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. ... The main story pieced together from the various narratives is interesting. ... The narrative structure throughout each chapter jumps back and forth between internal and external, back and forth between different characters' thoughts. Faulkner's use of narrative in Absalom, Absalom! ... is said to contain the most orig...

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Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white as snow (figurative language as opposed to literal language) - Oxymoron - silent scream - Hyperbole - Visual imagery - Personification - the howling wind, dancing grass, smiling moon - Punctuation -Structure - paragraphs - Objectification - opposite of personification - standing like a statue ...

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By using of this technique, Pollan is attempting to attract the reader into his piece. This use of narrative also sets a conversational tone to the article. ... Pollan uses his narrative to establish a back-and-forth argument between him and the animal rights activists. ... His narrative about him going to Polyface Farms helps him find out the way animals should be treated in factory farms. ... Pollan effectively uses his rhetorical techniques to justify eating meat and convincing the reader that we should do something to end animal cruelty....

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Only, thanks to director Stephen Frears" narrative technique, we don't realize this until the credits start to roll. ... Consequently, the main part of the narrative is either flashbacks or direct commentary by Rob to the audience. ... Through the creative narrative techniques of flashbacks and candid monologues, the audience becomes fully engaged in Rob's struggle. ...

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Peter Wood, author of "The Dream Deferred," Peter Sterns, author of "Culture, Conflict, and Community," and Olaudah Equiano, author of The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes the life of slaves before freedom ever imagined a toll; two of which addresses the slaves docility or lack there of. From narratives to historical journals, each author uses their own technique to represent Blacks" resistance and struggle against slavery. ... Unlike the other two essays discussed, author Olaudah Equiano uses a slave's personal account (which are his own) in a narrative form to d...

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OPTION 3 GUIDED CLOZE EXERCISE Have the students (in pairs, groups or individually) watch the video segment, then ask them to fill in the blanks of a guided cloze passage that is based on a narrative description of the segment. ... However, although the technology has evolved, simple yet effective techniques of preparing students to receive the language still lies at the crux of language learning and should not be neglected. ... FINAL REFLECTIONS Teachers should become familiar with basic techniques of using video which will enhance their ability to use captions effectively. ... The learne...

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In addition, it will go over various techniques employed throughout the film, such as narrative, symbolic and technical elements that will help to identify the connection between Brand and his masculinity. There are certain narrative elements that are used during the film that position the audience to view Brand as the ostracized character, the one that everyone believes is different. ... Bennet Miller has effectively utilized the three filming techniques throughout the film: narrative, symbolic and technical, to provide the audience with an obvious reading of the Brand character. ...

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NARRATIVE STYLE AND STRUCTURE Told in retrospect, the novel is a first person narrative in chronological order of the events of the summer of 1922 with Gatsby's personal history revealed through various flashbacks spaced intermittently throughout the plot. ... Additionally, being selective with what was included in the plot by using the technique of delayed character revelation emphasises the theatrical quality of Gatsby's life and heightens his shroud of mystery. ... Additionally, juxtaposition is incorporated into the narrative style of the composer's language to manage th...

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Arthur's more reasonable and relatable narrative starts with the love of his wife and daughter. ... Another writer who typically is not associated with the temperance narrative is Poe, who replicates Arthur's narrative in a dark and satirical way. ... This experience is replicated in Arthur's narrative. ... Both of their techniques appeal to people's emotions and provide us with further knowledge about the life of an alcoholic. After reading both narratives, I came to the conclusion that Poe's more satiric narrative supports the temperance movement by offering a grueso...

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The story is written in first person narrative so that Jane is telling us the story. ... The narrative technique used is interesting because flashbacks make up the story. ... This story is also in first person narrative because Bertha is telling the story. ...

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To the formalist literature must have specified defining qualities to attain status as a literary work. 1Some of the defining qualities might be functionality, figurative language, universality, appropriate subject matter, excellence in technique, authorial intention to create an art work, aesthetic value, originality, verisimilitude, narrative structure, et al. ... Formalism, 5though criticized for unwarranted exclusion of history and context from literary analysis, has been very useful to many things, especially narrative theory. ...

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Danielewski's novel House of Leaves, Danielewski jumps between two narratives: the first the story of Johnny Truant, and the second the story of the Navidson family, which Johnny Truant reads. ... Perhaps more original and effective than Danielewski's use of Johnny Truant's narrative and the Navidson family narrative, however, is the confusion and discomfort that Danielewski produces in the reader through bizarre formatting, mirroring the idea aforementioned. ... This disorientation exactly mimics the narratives of the novel, causing the reader to feel empathetic towards the ch...

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He employs a third person narrative to immerse the reader, in full detail, to the social concern for the common well fare and the lack thereof. ... Steinbeck brings the reader close to the story with the third person narrative. ... This writing technique is effective at invoking feelings and conveying points. ... The third person narrative gives the reader a media through which to experience the novel first hand. ... Steinbeck makes these associations using a tactful third person narrative. ...

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