Narrative Techniques

We've review in class what we call narrative techniques, something that an author should and MUST have in mind at the moment of writing a novel. Following them you can change the understanding of the readers, wive your writing a personal tray, your own way to write, though it's not just a game of who writes the most, but a complex organaization of your words and ideas, using the following components:

• Point Of View: This is related to the person that is telling the storie, it might be the author, the reader or an external person. (1st, 2nd and 3rd person)
• Narration:  This is related to who is the narrator speaking to. It has three clasifications
• Direct narration (narrator talking to the reader)
• Frame narration (narrator is talking about someone else)
• Indirect narration (narrator not talking to the reader, just telling the story)
• Speech: This is related in the way the character speaks in the story (and the narrator). As the narration, this has three clasifications:

• Direct speech (Dialogues)
• Reported speech (The narrators makes a summarize of what is said)
• Free indirect speech (The character thoughts)                
• Tense: Of course this is related to the time in which the story is happening, it may be present, past or future tense. The narrator may use also jumps in the "timeline" of the events, like going back to memories or just starting and the end (future) and going back to the problem or beggining of the story (past). One of this literary device is called Flashback, one of the most known, and it's a short "jump" to the past that could be a memory (as I've allready said).