Complete the 12 sentences below. Choose the best answer for each one.
1Although the narrator describes the crowded room in detail, every judgement comes from what Lina notices, so the passage is ...............
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"focalised through Lina" is correct because the narration is restricted to Lina's perception and does not reveal what others think.
2Because the narrator says, "I was sitting beside him when the telegram arrived," the voice is ...............
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"homodiegetic" is correct because the narrator is a character within the events being narrated.
3In the line "Mara stared at the locked gate; why had he lied again?", the narrator uses ...............
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"free indirect discourse" is correct because the third-person narration slips into Mara's thoughts without quotation marks or a reporting clause.
4When the narrator insists he never opened the letter, but the next chapter reveals his fingerprints on it, his voice becomes ...............
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"unreliable" is correct because the narrator's account is contradicted by evidence inside the story.
5As an old man, Karim recounts his first voyage with a wisdom he lacked at sixteen, making the narration ...............
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"retrospective" is correct because the older narrator is looking back on earlier events from a later point in time.
6The sentence "You turn the corner and see your own name on the door" uses a ............... narrative voice.
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"second-person" is correct because the narration addresses the protagonist as "you".
7The chapter abandons external action and follows Elena's anxious, unspoken chain of thoughts, so the technique is ...............
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"interior monologue" is correct because the passage directly follows a character's unspoken mental flow.
8Halfway through the trial scene, the narrative pauses to recount the judge's childhood arrest, creating ...............
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"an analepsis" is correct because the narration moves backward to an earlier event.
9The cracked mirror on page one ............... the quarrel that will shatter the family later.
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"foreshadows" is correct because the image hints at trouble that will occur later in the story.
10Instead of quoting Rosa's apology, the narrator merely tells us that she apologised for leaving, using ...............
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"reported discourse" is correct because the narrator summarizes what Rosa said instead of quoting her exact words.
11When the narrator interrupts the plot with "dear reader, you may doubt my honesty," he is addressing ...............
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"the reader" is correct because the narrator steps outside the story action and addresses "dear reader" directly.
12By calling the panic "a physiological response" and withholding sensory detail, the narrator creates ...............
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"distance" is correct because the formal, detached diction keeps readers emotionally removed from the character's fear.
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- Although the narrator describes the crowded room in detail, every judgement comes from what Lina notices, so the passage is focalised through Lina.
- Because the narrator says, “I was sitting beside him when the telegram arrived,” the voice is homodiegetic.
- In the line “Mara stared at the locked gate; why had he lied again?”, the narrator uses free indirect discourse.
- When the narrator insists he never opened the letter, but the next chapter reveals his fingerprints on it, his voice becomes unreliable.
- As an old man, Karim recounts his first voyage with a wisdom he lacked at sixteen, making the narration retrospective.
- The sentence “You turn the corner and see your own name on the door” uses a second-person narrative voice.
- The chapter abandons external action and follows Elena’s anxious, unspoken chain of thoughts, so the technique is interior monologue.
- Halfway through the trial scene, the narrative pauses to recount the judge’s childhood arrest, creating an analepsis.
- The cracked mirror on page one foreshadows the quarrel that will shatter the family later.
- Instead of quoting Rosa’s apology, the narrator merely tells us that she apologised for leaving, using reported discourse.
- When the narrator interrupts the plot with “dear reader, you may doubt my honesty,” he is addressing the reader.
- By calling the panic “a physiological response” and withholding sensory detail, the narrator creates distance.