Modern Classics and Gothic Tropes · Literary Analysis
The Unreliable Narrator
Deconstructing the techniques authors use to create doubt in the reader's mind regarding the truth of the story.
Key Questions
- 1How does a limited perspective force the reader to become an active detective in the text?
- 2What linguistic cues suggest that a narrator is intentionally omitting vital information?
- 3How does the revelation of an unreliable voice change our retrospective understanding of the plot?
ACARA Content Descriptions
AC9E10LT02AC9E10LA05
Year: Year 10
Subject: English
Unit: Modern Classics and Gothic Tropes
Period: Literary Analysis
Suggested Methodologies
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