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AP English Literature and Composition Flashcards: How Narrator Affects Text Poetry

Study How Narrator Affects Text Poetry 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

Which narrative perspective most often heightens the risk of unreliability: first-person or omniscient?

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ANSWER

First-person narration. Limited perspective and subjective bias increase unreliability risk.

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AP English Literature and Composition: Poetry

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Read the poem embedded below, then answer the question. Title: "After the Verdict" The courthouse steps are warm as bread. They hand us our phones like returned knives. My sister laughs too loudly; the sound skips across the plaza and does not come back. We are told to go home, to resume the small errands of innocence. But my hands keep making the shape of a fist inside my pockets. I remember the defendant's mother pressing tissues into a purse—methodical, as if grief were a spill you could blot. I hated her for being a mother. On the bus, a man asks what happened. I say, Nothing. I say, Justice. The words do not fit in my mouth; they scrape my teeth on the way out. How does the speaker's perspective shape the reader's interpretation of the poem?
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