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Young narrators often think, and string their sentences together, paratactically -- short independent clauses joined by conjunctions: We went to the zoo and we saw a lion and then we saw a monkey ...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T02:39:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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ewormuth
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2019-12-08T02:39:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
Young narrators often think, and string their sentences together, [paratactically](http://literarydevices.net/parataxis/) -- short independent clauses joined by conjunctions: We went to the zoo and we saw a lion and then we saw a monkey and the monkey threw some bananas at the people and we thought it was funny but then he ran at the bars and screamed and I was scared . . . " That's a pretty young narrator. The older the narrator is, the more they will tend toward [hypotaxis](http://literarydevices.net/hypotaxis/) -- embedding one idea within another, using independent and subordinate clauses, and so on. Of course, there will be something in between, depending on the age of the narrator. I think the notion of following the stream of consciousness works here.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-08-15T00:40:05Z (over 9 years ago)
Original score: 4