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Thank you We sneak in I mean here's her shmoop

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douceur brought to you by narrative mode No narrative ala

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

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Franz kafka greg or samsa blind me rapture director It

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was a great reading We're done now Which of the

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following literary terms best describes the narration of this story

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And here the five dollars were up kids lancers What

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

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mode this story uses Our job has made a lot

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

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

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Constance is not related Teo bathroom habits are having issues

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

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sounds are repeated here's An example The cockroaches munched in

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

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a liberation but civic just cancel it's like clown college

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Option d is not a narrative mode either Her son

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if ic ation is a literary device in which something

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that's not human is given human qualities For example we

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might say the sun glared down on us like a

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human blaring or work kicked our butt yesterday But yeah

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

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

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there's a human taking on non human characteristics that we

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have the opposite of personification like insect defecation Animal ification

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Now all right so now we've narrowed it down to

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a c narrator is the person telling the story And

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there are a few narrative modes in which he or

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she can tell it Well first person narration is easy

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to spot because the 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 or

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we're looking at a buck anyway if gregor we're narrating

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

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

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so option a has to go and that makes see

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limited on nish int the correct answer If the narrator

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uses he or she to describe the actions and thoughts

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

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Well third person narration can be totally on Nisshin knows

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everything about all care or limited on nish it on

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Lee knows the inner workings of specific character and since

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

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but greg or we know our narrator is limited But

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we know if the narrator keeps trying here she can 00:02:51.93 --> [endTime] get past those with eyes on the prize

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