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Separating narrator, speaker and author, and reading the relationship a narrator builds with a reader.
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume." In AP analysis, who is the "I"?
"I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are you - Nobody - too?" What may a reader infer about the voice?
"And did those feet in ancient time / Walk upon England's mountains green?" The questioning voice is best treated as...
"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time." The "thou" is addressed by...
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." What should not be assumed from "my"?
"Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you / As yet but knock..." The voice is best read as...
"You don't know about me without you have read... Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." What does the opening establish?
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne... but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." What does the telling reveal?
"Call me Ishmael." What does this opening's manner suggest?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." What is marked by this opening?
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day... I was glad of it: I never liked long walks." What voice emerges?
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise..." What does the phrasing establish?
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life... these pages must show." What role is the reader given?
"Reader, I married him." What relationship does this direct address create?
Walton tells his sister, "do not be alarmed for my safety, or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the 'Ancient Mariner.'" How does this reassurance position the addressee?
"I wish either my father or my mother... had minded what they were about." What relation is built by this overelaborate complaint?
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine." How is the reader positioned?
"The founders of a new colony... have invariably recognized... a cemetery, and... a prison." What contract with the reader does this make?
"It little profits that an idle king... / Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race." What situation is the speaker in?
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall... Will't please you sit and look at her?" What situation is the speaker in?
"Had we but world enough and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime." What situation does the persona occupy?
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful." What is the speaker doing?
"I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said:" What is the speaker's immediate situation?
"Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky." What situation does the persona create?
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." What does the narrator add?
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich... seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence." What does "seemed" add?
In Northanger Abbey, the narrator says Mrs. Allen "had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner." What does this commentary add to her introduction?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." What does this narration add before plot begins?
"My father's family name being Pirrip... my infant tongue could make... nothing longer or more explicit than Pip." What does the adult narrator add?
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing... clutching, covetous old sinner!" What does the narration add?
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