Complete the narratological vocabulary of order.
Any discordance between story and narrative order is an ______. Narrating an earlier event late is an ______, and narrating a later event early is a ______. Genette measures each by its ______ and its extent.
Word bank: anachrony · analepsis · prolepsis · reach · ellipsis · frequency
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- The general term comes first, then the two species.
- The two measures are distance and duration; the blank wants the distance one.
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Any discordance between story and narrative order is an anachrony. Narrating an earlier event late is an analepsis, and narrating a later event early is a prolepsis. Genette measures each by its reach and its extent.
The vocabulary is worth memorising exactly because the phenomena are so familiar. Everyone recognises a flashback; almost nobody, without the terms, notices whether it reaches outside the story's span or how much time it covers when it lands.
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