Literature question:

[sbryan]

I posted this on another board and haven't received an answer. Thought I'd give the cafe a shot:

I'm writing about the intercalary chapters of The Grapes of Wrath. These vignettes are told from the third person, even though some characters start to address the reader as "you", but later the party being addressed responds.

What is this literary technique:

You can't kick us off the land. Our land.

Got to. The monster is sick. Something is wrong with the monster.

I'm not taking those lines directly from the book, but the style is the same. It's a technique in which the dialogue is not set apart with quotation marks.

 

[Charli]

I don't know the answer to that, but the people over at absolutewriter.com might.

 

[Rick Meyer]

I could be wrong but I don't think there is name for that literary technique. I think what Steinbeck did was unique and part of his personal style. For Grapes of Wrath it worked. But I don't believe there is a word for it...just an extension of his skill and personal craft.

 

[ugafan]

What is this literary technique:
Our land.

Got to.

it's called a sentence fragment. this steinbeck person obviously didn't know english very well.

 

[Billy Pilgrim]

Neither did that Faulkner guy