narrator
The narrator may or may not be a character. This topic is part of Literature within Literature. This page currently draws on 40 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
narrator trivia questions
The narrator is the voice that does what?
Answer: Tells the story
Bonus fact: The narrator may or may not be a character.
Can the narrator and author be different?
Answer: Yes
Bonus fact: Fictional narrators are created by authors.
What is an omniscient narrator?
Answer: Narrator who can know multiple characters' thoughts and events
Bonus fact: Omniscient means all-knowing.
What kind of twist reveals that a trusted narrator's version of events was misleading?
Answer: Unreliable-narrator reveal
Bonus fact: The reader must reinterpret earlier scenes.
Which famous novel begins with narrator Ishmael saying 'Call me Ishmael'?
Answer: Moby-Dick
Bonus fact: Ishmael narrates Herman Melville's novel.
An unreliable narrator is one whose account may be what?
Answer: Untrustworthy or incomplete
Bonus fact: Readers must question the narrator's version of events.
Why might a narrator be unreliable?
Answer: Bias, limited knowledge, deception, or mental state
Bonus fact: Unreliability can be intentional or unconscious.
Which literary effect does an unreliable narrator often create?
Answer: Readers must reinterpret events
Bonus fact: The gap between narration and reality becomes part of the story.
Which Faulkner novel is told through multiple narrators including the Compson family?
Answer: The Sound and the Fury
Bonus fact: Its shifting viewpoints make it famously challenging.
Which Poe story features a narrator disturbed by an old man's eye?
Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart
Bonus fact: The narrator insists on sanity while describing murder.
The Pit and the Pendulum's narrator is imprisoned during what historical institution?
Answer: Spanish Inquisition
Bonus fact: The setting heightens the tale's atmosphere of terror.
What slowly descending object threatens the narrator?
Answer: Bladed pendulum
Bonus fact: The pendulum is one of Poe's most memorable torture devices.