Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0917 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Narrative Distance
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The idea
Distance is how near the telling stands to a character's own way of seeing, and it can change from sentence to sentence within one passage. The glossary has no term for it. Noticing a shift in distance is often what an exam question about a passage's development is asking for.
In practice
How near the voice stands.
Where people slip
It shifts within a single passage.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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