NARRATOR

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 494.

1) What type of narrator is used in this story:

a) first person, b) third person unlimited (omniscient), c) third person limited (biased)?

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2) Focus on the character of the narrator.

a) How do the stylistic peculiarities of the narration characterize the narrator?

b) Consider the episode of fettering F. Does the narration reveal the narrator's emotional involvement in the process? Prove your answer.

c) How would you characterize the tone of the narrator's address to F after fettering him? Is this tone achieved through

· vocabulary

· syntactical structures

· stylistic devices?

How does the tone characterise the narrator?

d) What feelings of the narrator are revealed in the passage about building a wall? Which of the following seem to concern him most?

- revenge for his personal insults

- triumph of justice in punishment of the enemy

- his ability to cope with an extraordinary situation.

Do any of his concerns strike you as unusual? Would you consider his response to the situation normal?

3) Is the narrator characterized:

· directly (verbally)

· through behaviour

· through speech

· through the attitude of other characters?

g) What adjectves would you use to describe him? How would you define the narrator's state of mind?

- calm - hysterical - rational -confused - unbalanced - detached - other