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GCSE English Literature · key term
A character’s account of events told using ‘I’, giving access to that character’s experiences and perspective.
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Paper 1
Narration in which a character tells events using ‘I’, giving direct access to that character’s experiences and interpretation.
Revise: Plot overviewFirst-person narration is not automatically unreliable: Lanyon provides eyewitness testimony, while Jekyll offers privileged knowledge but also has reasons to defend himself.
A story told by a character using ‘I’, giving readers access to that character’s experiences and thoughts.
Part (b): learn short quotations with their chapter and narrative situation. Explain individual words, but also consider first-person narration and the order of events.
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An account told by a character using ‘I’. In this novel, Watson’s observations and judgements shape the reader’s access to events.
Storytelling in which a character recounts events using ‘I’. In Jane Eyre, readers encounter Thornfield through Jane’s experiences and judgements.
A narrative told by a character using ‘I’, so that readers encounter events through that character’s knowledge, feelings and judgements.
Paper 2
A narrative in which a character tells the story using ‘I’, presenting events through their own experience and understanding.
Storytelling in which a narrator uses ‘I’ and participates in the events being described.
Paper 1
Storytelling by a character who uses ‘I’ and presents events from their own perspective.
Storytelling through a character’s own viewpoint, using pronouns such as ‘I’ and ‘my’. Readers experience events through that character’s perceptions.
Storytelling by a narrator who uses ‘I’ and presents events through their own experiences and perceptions.
Storytelling in which a narrator uses ‘I’ to describe events from their own perspective, limiting readers to what that narrator knows or understands.
Narration by a character who uses ‘I’ to recount events, so readers encounter other characters through that narrator’s perspective.
Storytelling by a narrator who uses ‘I’ and presents events from their own perspective. Readers must distinguish that perspective from other characters’ feelings and the writer’s wider presentation.
Component 2
Storytelling through a voice that uses ‘I’, presenting events through that speaker’s experiences, knowledge and judgements.
Revise: The narratorThe novel uses first-person narration: the narrator tells the story through his own experiences. This brings readers close to his fear, physical exhaustion and uncertainty. However, it is also retrospective narration: he writes after the invasion, with knowledge he did not possess during it.
The presentation of events through a character who uses ‘I’. In this novel, the husband’s perspective shapes how readers understand his wife.
The telling of a story by a character who participates in its events and uses pronouns such as ‘I’. Readers receive that character's perspective rather than unrestricted access to every person's thoughts.
Narration by a character using ‘I’, giving readers access to that character’s experiences, thoughts and judgements.
Narration by a character who tells the story using 'I', presenting events through their own experience and judgement.
Storytelling by a narrator who participates in the events and uses pronouns such as ‘I’ and ‘we’.
A narrative told by a character using ‘I’. Readers encounter other characters through that narrator’s observations and judgements.
An account told by a narrator who participates in the story and uses ‘I’; readers encounter other characters through that narrator’s perspective.
Narration in which a character tells the story using ‘I’, giving readers access to that character’s experiences but limiting them to that perspective.
A narrative told by a participant using ‘I’, so that other characters are presented through that participant’s knowledge, memories and judgements.
An account told by a participant using ‘I’, giving access to that person’s experiences and interpretation.
Storytelling in which the narrator describes events using ‘I’. In Jane Eyre, Jane tells her own life story.
The telling of a story by a narrator who participates in it and refers to themselves as ‘I’.
