Forms of speech representation in a literary work
The speech in literary work is divided into the author’s and the personage’s speech.
Forms of the author’s speech
In epic literature the most important form is narration – the kind of writing or speaking that presents a series of events in their development. Narration expounds what happened, when and to whom.
If the story is told by the author himself, we deal with a third-person narration. The author is anonymous, rather impersonal, having no direct relation to the persons he speaks about. The narrator gives objective information on the characters, their thoughts, feelings, their past and future. He expresses his attitude to the characters explicitly. This kind of the author is called “omniscient” (all-knowing). Besides the author can be merely an observer who only shows some actions, events, but doesn’t concern to the inner life of the characters, makes no comment on anything
Narrator may be a character as well. In this case we have a first-person narration which can take the following forms:
1) the narrator is a witness, not an active participant of the events;
2) the narrator takes an active part in the events, not being the main character;
3) the narrator is the protagonist of his own story. In this case sometimes (though not always) we can consider the narrator as the alter ego of the author.
It is important not to confuse the narrator and the author himself. Even if they are very close to each other, almost coinciding, they are not the same. There exists a tale – a very special form of the first-person narration imitating the peculiarities of the oral speech of a person who belongs to some particular social or ethnic group.
Entrusted narration – 1) the narration begins from the third person (by the author) and is then continued by a character, from the first person; 2) alternation of several narrators.
Other forms of the author’s speech
a) Description – representation of the atmosphere, the scenery and the like in a literary work. The subjects described are:
- landscapes;
- portraits;
- different things and objects;
- emotional conditions.
The events are not described – they are narrated.
b) Reasoning – the author’s thoughts, comments and feelings. They are expressed directly.
Personages’ speech
1) Dialogue
2) Monologue
- dramatic (a character speaks alone, but there are those he addresses to);
- interior (a character speaks to himself, no matter whether in aloud form or not).
There exists a specific kind of interior monologue – unuttered represented
speech (the combination of the author’s and personage’s speech. The author speaks about a character from the third person but using the words and syntactical constructions characteristic of this character).
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