Narrative Perspective and Unreliable Narrators
Analyse point of view and narrative perspective — including first person, third person limited and omniscient, and unreliable narrator — and how the author's or narrator's perspective shapes the reader's understanding and creates effects such as suspense, irony, or humour
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- Identify the narrative perspective of a text and explain how it limits or expands the reader's knowledge
- Explain how dramatic irony arises when the reader knows something a character does not
- Compare how the same event might be told differently from two characters' perspectives
“When your child reads a story with an unreliable narrator — where the person telling the story isn't fully trustworthy — can they spot the clues that suggest the narrator isn't giving the full picture?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Reading Comprehension
- Age range
- Ages 11–14
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