/lit/ - Literature

Is there a word or phrase for when the text of a book is crafted to reflect the meaning of the text?
Like the prose becoming more schizophrenic as a character is losing their mind.
Or like in house of leaves where the text is formatted to look to the reader like it is described as in the book.

I wanna call it diagetic prose but i dont think thats right.

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>>21881960

In active voice, the grammatical subject is the agent that performs an action. Conversely, in passive voice, the grammatical subject is the target of the action. Here are some actually correct examples:

>Active voice: I fucked Anon's mother.
>Passive voice: Anon's mother was fucked by me.

>Active voice: My throbbing cock obliterated her asshole.
>Passive voice: Her asshole was obliterated by my throbbing cock.

Compare these to the incorrect "passive voice" examples in Anon's rant.

>Washington was marching north. (Active)
>North was marched by Washington. (Passive)

This one is grammatically incoherent. "Was marching" in the first sentence is intransitive; there is no "object" that is "being marched." The sentence therefore can't be made passive. However, Anon configured his example as if "north" is the "object being marched," when in fact it's an adverb. The "passive" sentence is nonsense derived from Anon's misunderstanding of the first sentence's grammar.

>His coat was blue. (Passive)
>His blue coat kept him warm. (Active)

This "passive" is at least a coherent sentence, but it isn't passive. It's active. Anon saw the word "was" and assumed the sentence was passive, because "was" is used as a linking verb in passive constructions (e.g., "Anon's mother was fucked by me"). However, the "was" in this sentence isn't a linking verb, but the main verb of the sentence. Interestingly, his "active" example here is also active, but more detailed, which makes me think he's mistaken active/passive voice as a matter of prose styling rather than an actual grammatical concept.

>In the middle of the room was the corpse of his John Wick's dog.

This example is the same. It's in active voice, and there is no agent/target pair to invert, but Anon assumed passivity when he saw "was."

>>21881960

Please don't take writing advice from someone who writes with absolute confidence on a topic about which he is 100% factually incorrect, especially when that topic is basic English grammar.