Fiction (19466)

Fiction is a part of literature, and it deals with events and stories not based on true facts. Its main

forms are novels and short stories, even if there are many other kinds like legenda, fables comics,

science fiction, fantasy etc. Novels and short stories differ for these main features:

NOVEL SHORT STORY

Time of the story Longer Shorter

However, they both can deal with

Characters Many Few

similar themes, even if the novel

Plot Complex Easy

prefers love and complex themes,

Events Many, and Few, and without

and the short story prefers jokes or

described description

some moral lesson, like in the

Effects on the Evoke the human emotions, distract

fables. reader one’s minds, make laugh, give hope

In every narration there is a

narrator, that is who tells the story. The narrator can be:

NARRATOR

1st person 3rd person

Intrusive (interacts

with the reader)

Internal Not intrusive External Non-

omniscient

Omniscient

A 1st person narrator usually make the reader involved. He relates the events from his perspective

and the reader considers the events more real. A 3rd person narrator on the contrari remains

outside the story (external). He observe the events he describes. He can be omniscient or non-

omniscient, so he can know anything about the characters and the story or not. Both the 1st person

narrator and the 3rd person narrator can be intrusive or non-intrusive. If a narrator is intrusive, he

interacts with the reader, if he is non-intrusive, he is detached from the reader.

In a story, the author can choose some techniques to create particolar effects. For example, a very

used theme when there is a 1st person narrator is the interior monologue, where the protagonist is

also the narrator and speaks to oneself about his problems and troubles. There in also the stream of

consciousness, that consists in seeking to portray one’s point of view by writting and reporting the