Author Surrogate

1. What is it? An author surrogate is a character inserted into a story to represent the author’s ideas and feelings. …

Audience Surrogate

1. What is it? An audience surrogate is a character who acts on behalf of the audience within a story. This character …

Epistolary Voice

1. What is it? The epistolary voice is constructing the narrative through documents and letters. A variety of documents can be …

Unreliable Narrator

1. What is it? An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose version of events is not 100% guaranteed to be …

Character Voice

1. What is it? Character voice is the voice – including thinking, acting and speaking – that is specific to a particular …

Stream of Consciousness

1. What is it? Stream of consciousness writing reads like a person’s continuous thoughts inside their head. It does not …

The Beat Movement

1. When was it? 1944 – c.1970 2. Who was writing? Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg William Burroughs Ken Kesey 3. …

Modernism

A movement from the early 20th century that played with style, structures, and identity.

The Victorian Era

1. When was it? 1837-1901 2. Who was writing? William Thackeray Charles Dickens Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë …