Narrative perspective & voice
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What is narrative perspective?
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Who tells the story and how much they can see.
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What is first-person narration?
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A character telling the story using ‘I’.
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What is third-person narration?
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A narrator outside the story using ‘she / he / they’.
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First person — strength and limit?
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Close and personal, but only one character's view.
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What can third person do?
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Follow one person, or know everyone's thoughts.
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What is an unreliable narrator?
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A teller we can't fully trust — they hide or misread things.
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Why analyse the narrator?
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The choice controls what the reader is allowed to know.
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What is voice in a narrator?
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The personality and style of the one telling the story.
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How do you score on perspective?
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Name it + what it lets us see + what that does.
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Commonest perspective mistake?
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Naming ‘first person’ with no effect on the reader.
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