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Implied author

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, implied author means: The image of an author and their values that a reader constructs from the work.

In Turkish: örtük yazar

How it is used

Use to distinguish the values suggested by a work from the real writer's biography or the narrator's claims.

Example sentences

  1. The implied author seems more critical of the landlord than the friendly narrator is.

    The story's wider pattern creates distance from the narrator's praise.

  2. Our essay reconstructs the implied author from the choices the ending rewards.

    The rewarded choices provide clues to the work's apparent values.

Common collocations

  • the implied author's values
  • construct an implied author
  • authorThe person who wrote a particular book, poem, play or other text.
  • narratorThe voice that tells the story to the reader. It may be a character in the story or an outside voice, and it is not the same as the author.

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