Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one.
1By interrupting the plot to judge the heroine's choices, the ............... narrator makes the reader aware of the act of storytelling.
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"intrusive" is correct because it describes a narrator who interrupts the story to comment directly on the action or characters.
2The novel portrays ............... as a painful process in which migrants gradually abandon their language to gain acceptance in the capital.
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"assimilation" is correct because it names the process by which a minority group is pressured to adopt the dominant culture's language and customs.
3The recurring image of cracked mirrors gains ............... because it links personal memory with national fracture.
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"symbolic resonance" is correct because the repeated image carries meaning beyond its literal presence in the scenes.
4............... the film was marketed as light entertainment, its final sequence sharply criticises the consumer culture that financed it.
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"Whereas" is correct because it introduces a contrast between the film's commercial success and its critical treatment of consumer culture.
5By refusing the conventional marriage ending, the heroine ............... the patriarchal plot that the earlier chapters seemed to endorse.
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"subverts" is correct because the ending undermines the patriarchal plot rather than maintaining or inaccurately repeating it.
6The scene relies on ............... irony: the audience has read the letter, but the protagonist still trusts the messenger.
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"dramatic" is correct because the audience knows the letter's contents while the character does not.
7The cautious cousin functions as a ............... to the reckless heroine, making her appetite for risk more visible.
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"foil" is correct because the cautious cousin is used to highlight the heroine's recklessness by contrast.
8The playwright's ............... of a Greek tragedy relocates the plot to a postcolonial city and changes the moral emphasis.
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"appropriation" is correct because the playwright takes an older source and reworks it in a new historical and political context.
9In the salon scenes, quotations from canonical poetry operate as ..............., allowing speakers to signal education and social rank.
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"cultural capital" is correct because knowledge of canonical poetry gives characters status within an educated social circle.
10The novel's ............... structure repeatedly interrupts the present-day investigation with fragments from the narrator's childhood.
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"non-linear" is correct because the narrative interrupts the present with scenes from earlier in the character's life.
11The memoir ............... the official history by placing triumphant public speeches beside private memories of fear and scarcity.
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"complicates" is correct because the memoir adds contradictory memories that make the official account less simple and secure.
12A ............... of the adaptation would ask how the colonised narrator transforms the language of the European classic.
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"postcolonial reading" is correct because the analysis focuses on empire, language, and power in the rewriting of a European classic.
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- By interrupting the plot to judge the heroine’s choices, the intrusive narrator makes the reader aware of the act of storytelling.
- The novel portrays assimilation as a painful process in which migrants gradually abandon their language to gain acceptance in the capital.
- The recurring image of cracked mirrors gains symbolic resonance because it links personal memory with national fracture.
- Whereas the film was marketed as light entertainment, its final sequence sharply criticises the consumer culture that financed it.
- By refusing the conventional marriage ending, the heroine subverts the patriarchal plot that the earlier chapters seemed to endorse.
- The scene relies on dramatic irony: the audience has read the letter, but the protagonist still trusts the messenger.
- The cautious cousin functions as a foil to the reckless heroine, making her appetite for risk more visible.
- The playwright’s appropriation of a Greek tragedy relocates the plot to a postcolonial city and changes the moral emphasis.
- In the salon scenes, quotations from canonical poetry operate as cultural capital, allowing speakers to signal education and social rank.
- The novel’s non-linear structure repeatedly interrupts the present-day investigation with fragments from the narrator’s childhood.
- The memoir complicates the official history by placing triumphant public speeches beside private memories of fear and scarcity.
- A postcolonial reading of the adaptation would ask how the colonised narrator transforms the language of the European classic.