English Literature A-Level
Memory and narrative perspective
What Memory and narrative perspective means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Memory and narrative perspective
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The use of four first-person narrators creating competing versions of events, with limited perspective and dramatic irony shaping the reader's understanding.
Topics that use Memory and narrative perspective
- Aspects of comedy - Set texts: Drama and further texts (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Comedy and satire
- Death, mortality and mock-elegy
- Epigrams
- Expectation versus reality
- Love, seduction and gender relations
- Migration and belonging
- Myth, art and rewriting tradition
- Race, empire and prejudice
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