Sentence examples for speaking to the reader from inspiring English sources

Others had discovered a narrator who was, as one account had it, "pathologically honest" when speaking to the reader.

Hence its greater gaiety and ease of contrivance, its (on the whole) superior finish, and its flattering air of speaking to the reader who, himself presumably educated, may be spared the obvious.

Like many Thompson novels "The Killer Inside Me" is told in the first person, and the reader eventually discovers that Lou is himself dead: he's speaking to the reader from beyond the grave, as it were, and his narrative voice is as seductive and elusive as the one he uses to sweet-talk his victims.

The style the book is written in is very interesting as it is written from the young slave's point of view, and she tells everything as if she is speaking to the reader, and it's in her own particular way of talking.

But Binet does not seem aware that this trick of giving the impression that he is thinking the book through as he is writing it is one of the oldest tricks of novelistic verisimilitude: it is inseparable from the fraudulence of the first-person narrator, who is pretending to be speaking to the reader off the cuff even as the novel has been rewritten a thousand times by the laboring author.

Something like, How to Something-something. Begin, continue, and end the piece by speaking to the reader like a small child in a corner who's at the tail end of a cry.

One of fairy tales' methods of speaking to the readers' deepest emotions is a technique I like to call "tears into blood".

In the outer one, Boccaccio speaks to the reader directly.

The voices began to take over the book and to speak to the reader over the biographer's head.

Titles are so often missed, and I think they're a wonderful opportunity to speak to the reader.

They speak to the reader directly: this is a conversation with a likable next-door neighbor rather than a scary visitation from a bipolar goddess.