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1386Descriptive pause  

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Scope note

  • The narrative technique in which the story is interrupted to make room exclusively for the narrator's static descriptions. Descriptive pause occurs when time stands still in the story while description carries on at length.

Source

  • Genette 1972

Contributor

  • Kalafata Patritsia (AA)

Creator

  • Kalafata Patritsia (AA)

Notation

  • 1386

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