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a narrator that is confined to what the I of the narrator knows and therefore limits the point of view presented to the reader. Such a narrator may be a witness to the events, e.g. Marlowe in Heart of Darkness, or a participant in the action, e.g. Nick in The Great Gatsby. In both cases the narrator might be reliable (we are led to understand that we can believe what Nick says and that his judgement is reliable) or unreliable (we have to draw our own conclusions about Marloweâ??s observations).
an adverb that tells us how much of or to what degree something is done, e.g. He was most...
a punctuation mark used to show a pause in a sentence which is longer than a comma but shorter...
a moving or still image in the photograph taken by the camera. See close-up, extreme close-up,...
language that conveys the emotion of the person speaking or writing: anger, love, hate and...
writing in a diary, done on a particular date.