It's nice to be posting again. I'm traveling away this week again so I won't be able to post until Monday. My goal is to basically give you a handful until I return, and I hope you have a good amount of books to read.
As I said before, at the moment, I'm re-reading the whole Eragon series just for personal enjoyment, and I found one thing that helps us in writing that I never really done on my blog before....
Today we are doing another narrative technique I found in book 1 of Eragon.
Mind, Eragon has a TON of narrative techniques. Today I'm zooming in onto this:
Description, description, description!
There are many literary techniques, but for this lesson, we will examine literary techniques relevant to style, plot, and perspective, or point of view. Common techniques relevant to style include metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, hyperboles, and alliteration. In the current chapter of Eragon that I'm reading, there is a ton of imagery to get you to play a long movie in your head. Also, considering that the actual movie is pretty terrible...
Mind that common techniques are almost always relevant to plot, which is the sequence of events that make up a narrative, and also allow you to include a backstory, flashback, flash-forward, foreshadowing etc.. Common techniques relevant to narrative perspective, or who is telling the story, include first person, second person, third person, and third-person omniscient. The perspective of this story is third person, it goes on in Eragon's head, but it's not described in Eragon's point of view.
As I said, tried to overwhelm you a bit xD
Keep turning those pages.
xoxo
BR101
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