LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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the story is told through the eyes of a main character who narrates the events
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the narrator is not a character in the story and is only aware of one character’s feelings
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the narrator is not a character in the story and is aware of ALL the characters’ feelings
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Omniscient means “all-knowing, ” and likewise an omniscient narrator knows every character’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations even if that character doesn’t reveal any of those things to the other characters.
Detailed explanation-2: -An omniscient narrator is the all-knowing voice in a story. The narrator has greater insight into the narrative events; context; and the characters’ motives, unspoken thoughts, and experiences, than any individual character does.
Detailed explanation-3: -You can often tell an omniscient narrator by the use of lines like: “He had no way of knowing that things were about to get much worse.” Or: “Waiting for her around the corner was the killer, looking for his tenth victim.” This is known as dramatic irony, and it’s used in many third person omniscient stories.
Detailed explanation-4: -The third-person omniscient point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.