Stream of Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness: A style that renders a character's thoughts as they occur - associative, unpunctuated, mid-flow.
Stream of consciousness trades grammar for fidelity: the sentence behaves like a mind, so the reader experiences thinking rather than its tidy report.
Stream of Consciousness examples
"...and yes I said yes I will Yes."
— Ulysses, James Joyce
"Mrs Dalloway follows its characters' drifting thoughts across a single London day."
— Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
"The Benjy section narrates through a mind with no sense of time, and the prose obeys him."
— The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
"Milk first or teabag first her mother always said milk you never listened did you the kettle needs descaling."
— original example
Spot the Stream of Consciousness
Score: 0/0A style that renders a character's thoughts as they occur - associative, unpunctuated, mid-flow.
"...and yes I said yes I will Yes."
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Stream of Consciousness: common questions
What is stream of consciousness in literature?
A style that renders a character's thoughts as they occur - associative, unpunctuated, mid-flow. Stream of consciousness trades grammar for fidelity: the sentence behaves like a mind, so the reader experiences thinking rather than its tidy report.
What is an example of stream of consciousness?
A classic example is "...and yes I said yes I will Yes." (Ulysses, James Joyce).
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