What are the key terms and definitions?

1. Question Exploration Guide What is the critical question? How does the reliability or unreliability of the narrator contribute to a particular work (or various works?) of literature? 1 What are the key terms and definitions? 2 • Narrator • P.O.V.: • 1st • 2nd • 3rd • limited • omniscient • Reliable • Unreliable narrator • Author’s purpose One who tells a story Point of view – the perspective of the storyteller Told from an individual / “I” p.o.v. Addresses the reader as “you” Told from a p.o.v. outside the story / “He, she, they…” 3rd person with a limited view of events 3rd person p.o.v. that sees all points of view / all events Trustworthy, accurate, honest, balanced? Lacks credibility, flawed (see Concept Mastery) Ex. To inform, persuade, entertain, enlighten, educate 3 What are the supporting questions and answers? What features of literature are affected by the reliability of the narrator? How does the reliability of the narrator effect each of the features you listed? Which work/s illustrate how narrator reliability affects a work of literature and how? Fiction Non-fiction What is the main idea answer? The reliability or unreliability of a narrator has implications for the author’s purpose, meaning, as well as the reader’s experience of a work of literature. 4 How can we use the main idea again? Does the reliability of the narrator function differently in fiction and non-fiction? Is a narrator How is narrator reliability related to propaganda? 5 Is there an overall idea? Is there a real world use? Every news program includes commentary. How do we know whether the commentary has basis in fact or whether it is reliable? 6