In a visual medium, this type of narration pinches character, and not much is evident to establish the creativity or popularity of Pos-Neg.
An opening video that attempts to outdo "Lord of the Rings" in terms of gravitas is accompanied by the narration of character actor Keith David.
Diction refers to the writer's choice of words for the narration and character's speech, such as Marvel Comics' version of Thor using "thees" and "thous" in his speech to identify him as more than mortal.
Colloquialism signals the informality of narration: the characters may be trying to justify themselves, but they are telling the reader what they think rather than what they are able to say to each other.
In their finished form, the album's simpler songs of love and anti-love — sung to the cracked-lipped Ramona, to the gypsy fortune-teller of Spanish Harlem, and about the unnamed watery-mouthed lover who turns him into a one-night stand — show an inventiveness in language, narration, and characters far more sophisticated than anything on Freewheelin'.
It lacerates, it haunts, it dreams, it mourns, and because of its effective use of the second-person narration, the characters call out to you — persistently — until you feel what the dead feel and, perhaps worse, what the survivors feel".
Now simply called "Race," the stage version has transformed Terkel's oral histories into narrations by characters confronting their own biases and experiences.
Although, there were certainly some excellent lines in there, mostly I was just rolling my eyes at the out-of-character narration for such a blunt and cynical character as Iris.
Her narration gives the character more nuance.
If writers hope to illuminate the profoundly foreign interior lives of animals, it may be that the realist novel, with its familiar protocols of character, narration, and dialogue, is simply not the ideal literary form in which to do so.
