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AP English Literature and Composition Flashcards: Describe Narrator Speaker Fiction Drama

Study Describe Narrator Speaker Fiction Drama in AP English Literature and Composition with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is "narrative distance" in describing a narrator or speaker?

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ANSWER

How emotionally or intellectually close the voice is to events. Measures involvement versus detachment.

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In the following excerpt from an original drama, two siblings (JULES and REN) sort through their late father's tools in a garage the morning after the funeral. JULES: Keep the hammer. He liked that one. REN: He liked anything that could hit something and not apologize. JULES: Don't do that. REN: Don't do what—say the true part out loud? You want the polite version where he was "complicated." JULES: He was complicated. REN: No, he was consistent. The rest of us just kept changing our names for it. Which choice best describes REN's character voice as conveyed through the dialogue? A. REN's voice is biting and plainspoken, using blunt phrasing and compressed logic to resist sentimental revision. B. REN's voice is lyrical and reverent, focusing on elegiac praise and gentle remembrance. C. REN's voice is the playwright's moral commentary, stepping outside the scene to instruct the audience how to judge the father. D. REN's voice is uncertain and deferential, treating JULES as the more reliable interpreter of the past.
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