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Narrative Voice and Point of View
Literature in English · JC 1 · Reading Literature: Prose · 2.º Período

Narrative Voice and Point of View

Students explore the impact of different narrative perspectives, including unreliable narrators and shifting viewpoints, on the reader's interpretation of a prose text.

MOE Syllabus OutcomesSEAB H2 Literature AO2: Understand ways writers use form, structure and languageSEAB H2 Literature AO1: Respond critically to texts with understanding

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Students explore the impact of different narrative perspectives, including unreliable narrators and shifting viewpoints, on the reader's interpretation of a prose text.

Key Questions

  1. How does first-person narration limit or expand our understanding of the plot?
  2. What makes a narrator unreliable?
  3. How does shifting point of view affect reader empathy?

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Edited by Adriana Perusin, Editor-in-Chief, Flip Education