Narrative voice

The position and manner of the voice telling a story, including its knowledge, distance, diction and possible limitations.

Key question

What can this narrator know, and how is that knowledge presented?

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  • An interpretation becomes more defensible when it explains specific features of a text and addresses details that resist it.

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