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1
What do you call a narrator who is involved in the plot and uses the pronoun 'I'?
Meta-fiction
First-person narrator
Third-person narrator
Omniscient
2
If a novelist 'alludes' to the Bible, what are they doing?
Copying stories from the Bible
Condoning biblical ideology
Making a reference to it
Showing the religious belief of the character
3
What's the effect of 'framing' a narrative
Tells you who the main character is
Helps the reader to understand the message
Gives the story a greater sense of significance
Makes the ending satisfying
4
What is a foil?
The point at which everything goes wrong
The main character
A person who contrasts with the main character
The enemy of the main character
5
What is the term used for a novel that uses letters to tell the story?
Correspondence
Bibliography
A novel
Epistolary
6
What is the term for when a third-person narrator adopts the perspective of one character?
Limited-omniscience
Focalisation
Free indirect discourse
First-person narration
7
What does 'chronos' mean in Greek?
Events
Time
Order
Plot
8
If a narrator is omniscient, they are ...
Female
All-knowing
God
French
9
What is a bildungsroman?
A theatre where plays are performed
A romantic novel about architects
A novel about a journey from childhood to adulthood
A long short story or short novel
10
Virginia Woolf popularised the modernist technique ...
Semiotics
Feminism
Metafiction
Stream of consciousness