Narrative Style and Language in Literary Works: An In-Depth Analysis
Narrative Style
The speech responds to the double point of view adopted by the author, who lies on the side of innocent characters and reveals their world through language records to coincide with the speech of such characters. The narrator adopts the language of oral baseline, called narrator. On the other hand, we perceive an external narrator to the narrative. This is the narrator-witness, who knows the world that moves the novel. This is a writer who dominates the literary use of language and inserts numerous literary fragments into the oral discourse.
The narration is spoken language, but the speech is enriched by the many features of the literary language. The result is an artistic whole full of precision and lyricism, credibility, and beauty. Narrative and dialogue are the forms of expression prevalent in the novel.
Narrative Fragments
In narrative fragments, the following stand out:
- The abundance of connective links that highlight the connection between actions.
- The predominance of coordinated propositions that permeate the discourse of expressive liveliness and linguistic verisimilitude.
- Extraordinary flexibility with which each period is constructed.
- The author breaks the logical order of the sentence, with frequent repetitions and enumerations, the ellipsis of verbs and nouns, and the deletion of the verba dicendi.
Dialogue Fragments
The dialogue also reaches very important qualitative and quantitative levels. The most characteristic features of dialogue fragments are:
- Colloquial speech is characterized by:
- The use of affectionate nicknames and adjectives.
- Popular comparisons.
- Irony.
- Onomatopoeia.
- Vulgar speech is chaired by:
- Ellipsis.
- Repetition.
- Pronoun shifts.
- Names (nicknames and use of the article before the name).
- How dialogue begins through exciting attention calls:
- Personal pronouns.
- Vocatives.
- Imperatives.
- Exclamations.
- Oaths.
- The language of submission as an offer, flattery, euphemisms.
- Economics and comfort that lead to:
- The deletion of prepositions.
- The use of wildcard terms.
Literary Language
There is a dominance of the literary use of language in numerous fragments of the novel, but the author also uses the language of scholars, preparing and giving a speech to the literary treatment of language. Details of the domain of cultural language include:
- Using a varied range of verba dicendi (answer, voicing).
- Inclusion of descriptive fragments associated with landscape and portrait of the characters.
- Subjective and objective descriptions alternate throughout the novel.
- Varied adjectives, sometimes bimembre or triadic, and the use of epithets or postponed prefixed to the name.
- Literary comparisons not lexicalized.
Most of the traits that we analyzed have an unquestionable lyrical intent, but we must mention two in which desire is clearer expression of feeling:
- The absence of signs that point to the long pause on the reader, giving the feeling of being at a long poem in verses, in which forms of expression, narration, dialogue, and description appear to be distributed with a sober rhythm.
- Orderly repetition of the phrase “milana bonita,” condensing all the tenderness that distills the narrative, appears as a refrain that makes the rest of the story in a gloss to explain the lyrical content.