An author who writes a narrative text creates a fictitious narrator who tells it. It is important that this narrator is not identical with the author of the text. But as the author writes the text, he can pretend different things for the narrator. For example, the author determines what the narrator knows about the figures of the story (see the perspective of the story) and what attitude he has to the narrative. This attitude is called narrative attitude and thus means the narrator’s attitude to the narrative. Such a valuation is usually part of the narrative report.
Note: Adjectives are affirmative (affirmative), negative, ironic and critical in schoolbooks, but there is no definite classification which should be used to describe the narrative. Basically everything is permitted, which can be justified by the text, even if it is sensible to orient itself, what teachers and lecturers for the text analysis pretend.
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The attitude of the narrator of a text is referred to as the narrative. The point is, therefore, how the narrator stands for the depicted and the figures or how he deals with it.
In this case he can either assess a situation or a figure (looking at the outside of a figure or thing) over the external view or over the internal view (representation of the inner life of a figure).
There is no definite classification of how narrative attitude must be described. Thus, all adjectives can be used, even if they are usually used affirmatively, negatively, neutrally, ironically or critically – especially in German lessons.
Moreover, these attributions are, of course, not rigid. On the one hand, they can mix and, on the other hand, the narrator’s attitude within a text can, of course, also change.