Paper Details

Name: Rumnit Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-4, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 13-21

Whatever may be the reason for the birth of a literary piece, the desire to appeal to its audience is the foremost in the writer. For this the writer chooses a narrative technique that gives his work certain artistic and emotional effect. Nearly every storyteller, regardless of genre or style employs a few foundational techniques. Just as an artist uses different paints and brushes to create, writers employ numerous narrative techniques to make interesting stories. Tools like dialogue, scene structure and description, all play a role in making the story coherent and unified. Narrative techniques serve a variety of functions, including aiding in character development, building up plot and bringing the story's world to life for readers. Many techniques work upon specific uses of phrases, punctuation or exaggerations of description, but nearly every storyteller, regardless of genre or style employs a few foundational techniques. Not until a writer chooses how to present that story in language does it become a “narrative.” Many key narrative techniques fall into four categories: plot, character, point of view, and style. The style a writer uses is seen in the diction, or the language used. Figurative language is a common element in narrative writing - metaphors, similes, imagery, personification, hyperbole and alliteration are some of them. Metaphor is used to help the reader understand what the writer is attempting to convey. It can be a comparison of one person or thing with another by saying that the first is the second. At times it is the use of an object or an action to represent another. Now as we survey through the works of Richard Bach we find that he makes extensive use of metaphor in his stories. To be precise ‘flying’ is a repeated metaphor in many of his works. The present paper is an attempt to understand the use of this metaphor and bring out the underlying meaning.