psychonarration
/ˌsaɪkoʊnærəˈeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In examining the linguistic relationship between narrated monologue, psychonarration, and quoted monologue, Cohn identifies the distinctive grammatical features which differentiate narrated monologue from the other two modes: tense and person separate it from quoted monologue, the absence of mental verbs (the equivalent in the realm of thought, of inquit phrases in speech) such as "he thought" (and the resulting grammatical independence) separates it from psychonarration."
- "Lawrence's psychonarrations of nonverbal states differ from Joyce's and Woolf's inner monologues of verbal thought."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ψυχή, narrātiō