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skaz

skaz noun: a literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.

Noun

skaz (uncountable)

  1. A literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
    • […] however, Banfield goes on to posit that first person narrative comes in two shapes, one of which is speakerless while the other corresponds with skaz […]1993, Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction
    • She argues that the chief means of indicating the distance between the two levels in grotesque-ironic skaz is 'linguistic discrediting' […]2000, Jeremy Hicks, Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of skaz

Origin of skaz

From Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).

Questions about skaz

What does skaz mean?
Skaz means a literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
What part of speech is skaz?
Skaz is a noun.

Words near skaz in the dictionary

  1. skattywampus
  2. Skaudvilė
  3. skaw
  4. skaws
  5. skayles
  6. skaz
  7. skazka
  8. skazkas
  9. skazki
  10. SKCA
  11. SKD

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