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the Latin word for the mask used by actors in the theatre. It has come to mean the speaking voice in any narration, whether this voice be a first-person narrator or a third-person narrator, e.g. the speaking voice in Paradise Lost (Milton) or the voice of Nick in The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald).
studying the how and why of language and literature by asking searching questions of every...
a noun that names a general class of people or entities, not individuals or particular groups, e...
the names of terms we use to talk about language, e.g. phrase, verb, figure of speech.
a narrator that is confined to what the I of the narrator knows and therefore limits the point...
action taking place in the order that things actually happen, e.g. The author wrote the events...