Question

Wch statement most accurately describes the technique of in medias res?

Answer 1

It starts the play in the middle of the action, rather than at the beginning.

In media res is a Latin term which means 'into the middle of things'. It describes a narrative which does not begin at the beginning of a story. It starts somewhere in the middle, mostly at some crucial point.

It is a literary technique in which the story begins after the action has already taken place. The explanation of the plot, the importance of the setting, character roles, and other things are usually revealed through flashback. For example, the Odyssey begins almost at the end of the wanderings of Odysseus, just before he arrives home.

Answer 2

In medias res, the practice of beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action. The narrative then goes directly forward, and exposition of earlier events is supplied by flashbacks.

The principle of in medias res is based on the practice of Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad, for example, begins dramatically with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnonduring the Trojan War.