Question

Which of the following is the best definition for stream of consciousness?

Answer 1

Having complete and total awareness, understanding, or knowledge, as in an omniscient narrator is the correct answer.

Answer 2

Answer:

In literature, the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of a character as they occur; ongoing unedited and unorganized conscious experience through the mind

Explanation:

Stream of consciousness is a narrative method that shows the flow of the thoughts, ideas, opinions, and interpretations, as well as the complex psychology of the main character.

Common in modernist works, this device, also known as interior monologue, presents the character speaking to her/himself, and it can be in an unordered and spontaneous manner.