Unit quiz: Who speaks: voice, access and irony in narrative

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Question 1

A student claims that because Pip narrates as an adult, the terror in chapter I must be invented for effect rather than remembered. Which correction best fits the chapter?Retrospection affects phrasing and order but provides no basis for calling the experience inventedAdult narration proves that every reported feeling has been retrospectively fabricated

Question 2

In an essay draft, a writer states that Middlemarch’s narrator must be correct about Dorothea because the narration can enter her mind. Which repair is needed?Interior access proves the narrator reports psychological facts rather than interpretationsInterior access shows a permission granted by the telling, not a guarantee that the narrator’s judgement is right

Question 3

A reader marks the sentence about Emma’s ‘real evils’ as the narrator’s settled moral verdict. Which evidence in the same passage most complicates that verdict?The closing clause reports that the danger was unperceived by Emma, blending her evaluation with the narrator’s reportThe word ‘indeed’ shows the narrator asserting a conclusion without qualification

Question 4

A study guide asserts that because Lockwood is a poor judge of character, his statements of fact about the house may be disregarded. What is the precise correction?Any narrator who misjudges a person is unreliable about every statement he makesPoor judgement about people affects his interpretations of them, not his reports of what he saw

Question 5

A reader argues that Northanger Abbey’s opening sentence cannot be ironic because Catherine herself never notices any mockery. How should this be answered?Irony depends on norms the reader can infer, so a character’s unawareness is compatible with, and even necessary to, the jokeIrony requires the character addressed to recognise the mockery for it to exist

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