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Thank you We sneak in and here's her shmoop douceur

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brought to you by narrative mode No narrative ala mode

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would have been tastier and we're skimming the metamorphosis Franz

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kafka gregor samsa blind me rapture director It was a

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great reading We're done now which of the following literary

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terms best describes the narration of this story And here

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the five dollars were up Kids Lancers incident What All

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right so we've got to figure out which narrative mode

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this story uses Our job has made a lot simpler

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by the fact that two of the choices don't describe

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narrative modes at all We'll take choice B please Constance

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is not related Teo bathroom habits are having issues with

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them Instead It's a literary device in which continent sounds

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are repeated here's An example The cockroaches lunched in a

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carton of crunchy croton Yeah it's Kind of like a

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liberation but specific Just cancel it's like clown college option

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d is not a narrative mode either her son if

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ic ation is a literary device in which something that's

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not human is given human qualities For example we might

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say the sun glared down on us like a human

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blaring or work kicked our butt yesterday But yeah well

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in this story we have a human who's turned into

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a big bug but that's not personification actually since there's

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a human taking on non human characteristics do we have

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the opposite of personification like insect If ic ation animal

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ification All right so now we've narrowed it down to

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a and c Narrator is the person telling the story

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and there are a few narrative modes in which he

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or she can tell it Well first person narration is

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easy to spot because narrator uses the pronoun i whenever

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a bunch of eyes are staring at us from attacks

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when there's a good chance we're in first person we're

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looking into a bug anyway if gregor we're narrating the

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story about himself then we'd be in the first person

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territory for sure but that's not the case here so

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option a has to go and that makes see limited

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on nish int the correct answer If the narrator uses

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he or she to describe the actions and thoughts of

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the story's characters the narration is in third person Well

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third person narration can be totally on Nation knows everything

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about all characters or limited on nish it on Lee

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knows the inner workings of specific character and since we

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don't get to peek inside the brains of anybody but

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greg or we know our narrator is limited But we

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know if the narrator keeps trying he or she can 00:02:51.94 --> [endTime] get past those with eyes on the prize

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