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Unit 2: Texts and culture
Quick questions on Structural features of narrative (QCE English Unit 2)
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What is fragmented structure?Show answer
Non-chronological. Reader assembles the story from pieces. Common in modernist fiction (Faulkner, Woolf) and contemporary literary writing.
What is embedded narrative?Show answer
Multiple stories told within or against each other. Atwood's "The Penelopiad" (2005) embeds the maidservants' chorus against Penelope's narrative.
What is circular structure?Show answer
Ends where it began, often with shifted meaning. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" returns to the Thames.
What is flashback and flashforward?Show answer
Departures from chronological order.
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