Mimetic theories view the character as a sign, "a web of semes" according to Roland Barthes.

Choose an option that best describes whose voice and point of view we observe in the following passage:

Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece

as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of

George's Church had stopped ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven:

she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then

catch short twelve at Marlborough Street. She was sure she would win. To

begin with she had all the weight of social opinion on her side: she was an

outraged mother. She had allowed him to live beneath her roof, assuming

that he was a man of honour and he had simply abused her hospitality. He

was thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, so that youth could not be pleaded

as his excuse; nor could ignorance be his excuse since he was a man who

had seen something of the world. He had simply taken advantage of Polly's

youth and inexperience: that was evident. The question was: What reparation

would he make?

Which of the following best describes the main function or effect of an unreliable narrator in a work of fiction?

Match each influential theorist (proponent) from the list below with the theory:

What kind of focalization can we observe in the following example (Earnest Hemingway 'Hills Like White Elephants'?

"Well, let's try and have a fine time."

 "All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn't that bright?"

"That was bright."

 "I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?" 

" I guess so." 

The girl looked across at the hills. 

"They're lovely hills," she said. 

"They don't really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees."

 "Should we have another drink?"

 "All right."

What kind of focalization could we observe in "Miss Brill" by K. Mansfield?

Choose the examples of a frame narrative among the following options:

Choose the correct answer to the question: "Why was the term "point of view" substituted with "focalization"?

What narratives are called "unnatural narratives"?

Match the following notions with their definitions.