Extradiegetic
"Extradiegetic" in a Sentence (5 examples)
The extradiegetic narrator does not live the event.
An extradiegetic narrator is outside of the story they're telling.
This voice-over functions very differently from the extradiegetic narrator of the radio soap opera however, who tended to impose ideological coherence on the text, as well as serve as spokesman for the products being sold.
However, in this sequence Colleen's actions alone do not make her horrific. Rather, the extradiegetic music condemns her.
Instead, an extradiegetic narrator renders detached testimony of the hero's traumatic story in the Thatcher era.
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