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Component 2: Prose
Quick questions on Narrative and form in prose: analysing narrative method for AO2 - Edexcel A-Level English Literature
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What is a model AO2 paragraph?Show answer
"The writer makes the reader complicit in the narrator's self-deception before exposing it. The first-person narration is fluent and reasonable, its measured syntax inviting trust, so the reader initially accepts the narrator's account of events at face value. Yet the writer plants details the narrator passes over without comment, and on a second reading these details convict the narrator the narration tries to exonerate.
What is q1?Show answer
Why is analysing narrative voice one of the highest-value AO2 moves in prose? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is free indirect style? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explore how the writer of one of your prose texts uses narrative method to shape the reader's response to a central figure. [20 marks]
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