Question

Which of the following is true of stream of consciousness narratives?

A.)They present a characters thoughts in chronological order.
B.) They present events from many different characters points of view.
C.) They present thoughts as if they were issuing directly from a characters mind.
D.) They use transitional words and phrases to clearly indicate changes in time or setting.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C.) They present thoughts as if they were issuing directly from a characters mind.
The technique of stream of consciousness means that the writer is writing a character's thoughts in the order they appear - it doesn't matter if that order is jumbled, or if their thoughts don't make much sense. Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf used to use this technique in their novels.