Narrative Style and Language in Literature: 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 oral 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 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.
Key Features of Narrative Fragments
- In narrative fragments, the abundance of connective links highlights the connection between actions.
- There is a 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.
- Ellipsis of verbs and nouns and dicendi verb deletion.
Key Features of Dialogue Fragments
The dialogue also reaches very important qualitative and quantitative levels. The most characteristic features are:
- Colloquial speech: Characterized by the use of affectionate nicknames and adjectives, popular comparisons, irony, and onomatopoeia.
- Vulgar speech: Chaired by ellipsis, repetition, pronoun shifts, and names (nicknames and use of the article before the name).
- Initiating dialogue: Through exciting calls to attention such as personal pronouns, vocatives, imperatives, exclamations, and oaths.
- Language of submission: As an offer, flattery, euphemisms.
- Economy and comfort: Leading to the deletion of prepositions and the use of wildcard terms.
Literary Language
There is a dominance of the literary use of language in numerous fragments of the novel. However, 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
- Using a varied range of verba dicendi (e.g., answer, voicing).
- Inclusion of descriptive fragments associated with landscape and portrait of the characters throughout the novel.
- Alternation between subjective and objective descriptions.
- Varied adjectives, sometimes bimembre or triadic, and the use of epithets or those prefixed/postfixed 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 the desire is clearer expression of feeling:
- The absence of signs that point to the long pause gives the reader the feeling of being at a long poem in verses, in which forms of expression (narration, dialogue, 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 into a gloss to explain the lyrical content.