Narrative Voice and Pip’s Development (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Quizzes
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What does the retrospective first-person narration create in Great Expectations?
What does the retrospective first-person narration create in Great Expectations?
A dual perspective
What literary effect results from the gap between young and adult Pip's understanding?
What literary effect results from the gap between young and adult Pip's understanding?
Dramatic irony
What narrative technique blurs boundaries between narrator's voice and character's thoughts?
What narrative technique blurs boundaries between narrator's voice and character's thoughts?
Free indirect discourse
How does the narrative voice's syntax evolve in the novel's later sections?
How does the narrative voice's syntax evolve in the novel's later sections?
Eloquent but humble prose
What purpose do gothic elements serve in the narrative?
What purpose do gothic elements serve in the narrative?
Externalise Pip's psychological torment
What awakens Pip's class shame in Act One?
What awakens Pip's class shame in Act One?
Visiting Satis House and meeting Estella
What represents Pip's nadir (lowest point) in Act Two?
What represents Pip's nadir (lowest point) in Act Two?
Magwitch's revelation as his benefactor
Who nurses Pip back to health in Act Three, demonstrating Christ-like constancy?
Who nurses Pip back to health in Act Three, demonstrating Christ-like constancy?
Joe
How does Magwitch function as a relational mirror for Pip?
How does Magwitch function as a relational mirror for Pip?
Inverts class judgments
According to Dickens's moral vision, where does true fulfilment lie?
According to Dickens's moral vision, where does true fulfilment lie?
In communal bonds and self-knowledge