Narrative Style and Perspective (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

3rd-person limited omniscient w/ shifting focalisation

Lens/perspective through which events are filtered

Blends 3rd-person narration w/ character's inner thoughts

Clinical detachment + intimate psychological access combined

Approximately 40%

Quality of appearing real or true

Specialised vocabulary of psychiatric diagnosis

Paradoxically amplifies emotional impact

Readers know characters' fates (e.g., Owen dies pre-Armistice)

Emotional repression & society's suppression of trauma truth