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Audience superior position

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is when the audience knows less than one or more of the characters in a narrative work. A key example is in murder mysteries, when the detective solves the crime before the audience. If the audience were to solve the crime before the detective, the audience would lose all interest in following the
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to describe when the audience of a narrative work knows more than one or more characters in the narrative work. An example in film might be when the audience knows the killer is hiding in the closet while the
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Much of the time in narrative works, the audience knows exactly as much as the characters they are following, and are not given more or less information by the author.
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or dramatic tension. The audience is aware there is a shark in the film
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This article related to film or motion picture terminology is a
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Another example of audience superior position is the use of
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is headed for a tragic ending before Oedipus himself does.
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