Topic 3 of 6 · Form 5
Prose: the novel and short stories
First, second and third-person narration; reliable and unreliable narrators; multiple perspectives; chronology and structure (analepsis, prolepsis, frame narratives); pace and scene; symbolism and motifs; endings.
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Narrative methods
First, second and third-person narration; reliable and unreliable narrators; multiple perspectives; chronology and structure (analepsis, prolepsis, frame narratives); pace and scene; symbolism and motifs; endings.
Characterisation and theme
How characters are constructed and developed; how themes are shaped by structure and narrative choices.
Contexts
Historical, social, cultural and literary contexts (e.g. colonial and postcolonial literature, realism, modernism); the writer's purposes.
Passage-based questions
Analyse the passage in detail – language, structure and narrative voice – and relate it to the wider novel.
Check yourself
- What is analepsis?
- Why might a writer use an unreliable narrator?
- How should you treat characters in literary analysis?
Show answers
- A flashback to earlier events.
- To create irony, suspense or to make readers question perspective and truth.
- As constructions created by the writer for specific purposes.
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