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Literature-Comprehension and Interpretation Learncard 1144671610


Question

5.16 Literature – Comprehension and Interpretation

Panoramic View


What is meant by panoramic view in a literary piece of work?

Answer

Panoramic view

As the term suggests, this technique implies giving an overall account by summing up the main points, for instance when at the end of the novel Jane Austen briefly informs the reader that “the General, […], permitted his son to return to Northanger, and thence made him the bearer of his consent, very courteously worded in a page full of empty professions to Mr Morland. The event which it authorized soon followed; Henry and Catherine were married, […].” (p. 247)

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