The Use of Unreliable Narrators in Postmodern Literature
- 1. Which literary device is commonly associated with unreliable narrators?
A) Irony
B) Personification
C) Foreshadowing
D) Simile
- 2. What effect can an unreliable narrator have on a story?
A) Clarify the plot
B) Create ambiguity and suspense
C) Speed up the narrative
D) Decrease tension
- 3. Which novel by Kazuo Ishiguro features an unreliable narrator who struggles with memory loss?
A) White Teeth
B) Midnight's Children
C) Beloved
D) The Remains of the Day
- 4. Which famous postmodern author is known for using unreliable narrators to explore themes of identity and perception?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Don DeLillo
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) George Orwell
- 5. Which author's novel 'House of Leaves' explores unreliable narrators through its complex narrative structure?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Mark Z. Danielewski
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Haruki Murakami
- 6. Which literary movement influenced the rise of the unreliable narrator in postmodern literature?
A) Victorian literature
B) Renaissance literature
C) Romanticism
D) Modernism
- 7. What role does the reader play when encountering an unreliable narrator in postmodern literature?
A) Skipping over inconsistencies
B) Ignoring character development
C) Passively accepting the story
D) Interpreting and questioning the narrative
- 8. Which author's novel 'The Sound and the Fury' features multiple unreliable narrators sharing their perspectives of the same events?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Herman Melville
D) William Faulkner
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