JAMB Literature in English 2003 Question 20

Question 20

Prose: General

The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  1. A.shifting style
  2. B.narrator's mind style
  3. C.psycho-consciousness style
  4. D.stream of consciousness
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: D (stream of consciousness)

Explanation

Stream of consciousness records thoughts and memories in the jumbled order in which they pass through the mind.