Practice question · Numerical answer
Genette names the canonical movements of narrative duration, ellipsis, summary, scene and pause. How many are there in that canonical set?
Hints
- Count the movements with a canonical form.
- Slow-down is the additional, non-canonical fifth.
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4
Why
Four. Slow-down, where the discourse runs longer than the story, is real but has no canonical form, and Genette treats it as the marginal case. Its rarity is worth noticing: narrative almost always runs faster than life.
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