Answer:
14. SECOND OPTION
15. SECOND OPTION
17. FIRST OPTION
Explanation:
14. Which of the following is not a step in the process of drawing conclusions about a narrator?
The correct option is the second one: Make connections between what you’ve learned and what you know from life because it is not related with a narrator’s analysis; in fact, we would consider this option if we were drawing conclusions about a literary work, but in this case it doesn’t matter what do we know about life and what are we learning when we face a new text.
The other three options are steps in the process of drawing conclusions about a narrator because the first one proposes us to think in retrospective what have we learned about the narrator in order to understand it and put on a mental list all the characteristics that could help us draw our conclusions; the third option learn who the main character is in the story ad everything there is to know about him or her is related with narrator’s conclusions too because the narrator’s job is to introduce some character to us and tell us things about him or her, so it would be an essential part to think in that. Finally draw a conclusion based on the clues in the story and your background knowledge is important due to in this case we are considering not only what we already knew, but what do we know related to the story’s narrative universe.
15. When you form opinions about the narrator and events in the story, you are
The correct option is the second one: identifying tone and voice. To understand why it is the correct option we need to remember that in a narrative text we don’t have only connected facts, but there is someone who is telling us how they happened and here is where tone and voice acts because we can have, for example, a narrator that doubt about what just happened or another who be really sure about all.
The first option asking questions cannot be the one because it is very general; we can ask questions about many things, but it doesn’t mean that we are forming opinions about the narrator or the story; the third one analyzing narrator’s perspective is not the one because we are not basing our opinions just thinking and considering what the narrator is saying; in fact we incorporate our own perspective about the successes; finally the fourth option drawing conclusions is not the one due to its generality too, we have to ask ourselves drawing conclusions about what?
17. Which of the following is an example of an unreliable narrator?
The correct option, in this case, is the first one: a narrator who tells the story with ignorance about events because a complete narrator is not used to ignore things; of course, he couldn’t know everything in some cases, but not knowing the most important events makes him a little unreliable.
The other options are examples of different types of narrators, but any of them are unreliable, they are just focalized in different perspectives about one event; for example, in the second option, a narrator who tells the story from just one character’s perspective, he only would know what that character know; in the third one, a narrator who tells the story from the point of view of all the characters, his acknowledge is more than in the other types, but it doesn’t make him more reliable; and finally the fourth option, a narrator who tells the story from his or her own perspective is valid too even if he is not a main character of the narration. Thus, the only correct option could be the first one.
