Post by account_disabled on Dec 6, 2023 22:46:00 GMT -6
It is the exact opposite of analepsis or flashback. It is not, therefore, a backstory, since it does not represent a background. I introduce it only because it is the opposite of analepsis. In this case there is a preview of the events that will happen. I read some examples and saw different situations compared to analepsis. In the prolepsis we limit ourselves to a few sentences anticipating the facts. Let's look at an extemporaneous example. He opened the bathroom door and found the couple in the shower.
Later his friend would point out to him that it is good manners to knock before entering. The scream of the girl, who was trying in vain to cover her shame, shattered his eardrums. I highlighted the flashforward in bold . I honestly don't remember if I've ever used prolepsis in my stories. I have to say that I don't particularly appreciate it, but I think it Phone Number Data can sometimes be useful, especially in a humorous story. Digressions It's easy to understand what it is, although more difficult to understand its usefulness. A digression interrupts the narrative of the story to give the writer a way to describe a scene, an environment, improve the characterization of the character, etc. It is therefore a pause in the flow of the narrative. It can create anticipation or simply introduce information that the author deems important and that many instead call an infodump .
Manzoni's The Betrothed begins with a digression That branch of Lake Como, which turns towards the south, between two uninterrupted chains of mountains, all in creeks and gulfs, depending on the protrusion and retraction of those, comes, almost suddenly, to narrow, and to take course and figure of a river, between a promontory on the right, and a wide coastline on the other side; and the bridge, which joins the two banks there, seems to make this transformation even more visible to the eye, and marks the point where the lake ceases, and the Adda begins again, to then take on the name of lake where the banks, moving away again, they let the water relax and slow down in new gulfs and new inlets.
Later his friend would point out to him that it is good manners to knock before entering. The scream of the girl, who was trying in vain to cover her shame, shattered his eardrums. I highlighted the flashforward in bold . I honestly don't remember if I've ever used prolepsis in my stories. I have to say that I don't particularly appreciate it, but I think it Phone Number Data can sometimes be useful, especially in a humorous story. Digressions It's easy to understand what it is, although more difficult to understand its usefulness. A digression interrupts the narrative of the story to give the writer a way to describe a scene, an environment, improve the characterization of the character, etc. It is therefore a pause in the flow of the narrative. It can create anticipation or simply introduce information that the author deems important and that many instead call an infodump .
Manzoni's The Betrothed begins with a digression That branch of Lake Como, which turns towards the south, between two uninterrupted chains of mountains, all in creeks and gulfs, depending on the protrusion and retraction of those, comes, almost suddenly, to narrow, and to take course and figure of a river, between a promontory on the right, and a wide coastline on the other side; and the bridge, which joins the two banks there, seems to make this transformation even more visible to the eye, and marks the point where the lake ceases, and the Adda begins again, to then take on the name of lake where the banks, moving away again, they let the water relax and slow down in new gulfs and new inlets.