Narrative voice and unreliability, characterisation through behaviour, setting as a cause of conflict, non-linear structure, turning points, theme against…
10 questions • Zestly
• A short story is told throughout by a boy of nine, who reports what the adults around him say without understanding it, while the reader…
• In a novel, the narrator insists repeatedly that he was never angry, while every scene shows him shouting. What should the reader conclude…
• A character in a play never finishes a sentence when her husband is in the room, but speaks fluently to everyone else. What is the…
• A novel opens in a town where the mine has closed, the shops are boarded and the young have left. The story that follows is about a family…
• A short story tells its events out of order, opening with a funeral and only revealing at the end who has died and why. What does this…
• In a novel, a woman who has spent years protecting her brother's reputation tells the truth about him to a court. Nothing afterwards is as…
• What is the fundamental difference between the plot of a novel and its theme?
• In a play, the stage directions say the room grows darker in every act, though nobody remarks on it. What is the playwright doing?
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