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narration

Means of communication that involves telling a story to others. It is likely to be less precisely factual than an explanation and contains devices of rhetoric (or figures of speech), including exaggeration, and the development of suspense. These are used to engage and entertain listeners, rather than simply to convey information.



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Yet in granting Agutter's voice such primacy both narrationally and at certain critical moments in the narrative, Jeffries endows the film with a sensibility that is not simply that of a child but rather one of a female adolescent who, at the age of seventeen, is herself on the verge of adulthood.
True, we are supplied with ample POV shots from Margaret's subjectivity, but none more than are narrationally motivated, and none outside the classical construction of POV as being one half of the conventional shot/reverse-shot structure.
 
 
 
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