The narrator/focalizor
Kind of textual material
Modes of speech and thought presentation
Sequential ordering
Mixed
100

The narrator that tells about him- or herself and can be identified with a character is a ...

character-bound narrator

100

The part of a narrative in which there are many action verbs and time moves is called ...

narrative

100

Determine the way the character’s discourse is represented:
"Who knows," thought Rachel, "but he will return some day? Who knows - who can tell?"

direct thought
100

Differences between the arrangement in the story and the chronology of the fabula are ... 

chronological deviations, anachronies

100

What type of narrator do we have in the following passage?

From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.

character-bound narrator

200

True or False: Character-bound focalization cannot shift from one character to another. 

False

200

The ideology of a text is explicitly revealed in ... passages.

argumentative

200

Determine the way the character’s discourse is represented: He said he would give her all he found when he finished what he wanted to do.

indirect speech

200

The stretch of time covered by an anachrony is called ... 

span

200

What type of textual material is used in the following passage?

In the centre of the room, under the chandelier, as became a host, stood the head of the family, old Jolyon himself. Eighty years of age, with his fine, white hair, his dome-like forehead, his little, dark grey eyes, and an immense white moustache, which drooped and spread below the level of his strong jaw, he had a patriarchal look, and in spite of lean cheeks and hollows at his temples, seemed master of perennial youth. He held himself extremely upright, and his shrewd, steady eyes had lost none of their clear shinning. Thus he gave an impression of superiority to the doubts and dislikes of smaller men.

descriptive

300

The agent that utters the signs which constitute the text is called ...

the narrator

300

What type of textual material is used in the following passage?

Marjory was very cross and contrary all the way home. She hung with all her weight on Mr. White’s arm, fidgeted incessantly, asked questions without ceasing, and clamoured fretfully for his answers; was first hot, and then thirsty, and then so tired that he thought seriously of carrying her, big girl as she was. At last, being very wearied and irritable himself, he lost patience with her, and desired her quite roughly to hold her tongue, at which Marjory relapsed into tears and sullenness, in which state she remained until they reached home.

narrative

300

True or false: Emotive words are signals of impersonal language situation.

False

300

The anachrony when the 'contents of consciousness' lie in the past or future is ... 

subjective

300

What type of articulation is used in the following passage?

The boy went out. They had eaten with no light on the table and the old man took off his trousers and went to bed in the dark. He rolled his trousers up to make a pillow, putting the newspaper inside them. He rolled himself in the blanket and slept on the other old newspapers that covered the springs of the bed.

pure narrative

400

What type of narrator do we have in the following passage? She sewed on, as we have said, abstracted and serious, when gradually, for even in observation she was slow, the yellow crocuses attracted her attention.

external narrator

400

What type of textual material is characterised by greatest narratorial presence?

argumentative passages, commentary

400

Free Indirect Discourse is a strategy of alignment of the ... with a ... . 

narrator, character

400

How is an analepsis announced in a text?

through phrases like three years ago, in her childhood, etc.

400

What type of anachrony is used in the following film fragment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmv-L_Dd_j4

subjective analepsis

500

What type of focalizor do we have in the following passage? What was that? Oh, the men binding the sleds together and drawing tight the ropes. He listened, he who would listen no more. The whips whistled among the dogs. Hear them howl! How they hated the work and the trail through the snow! They had started! Sled after sled moved slowly away into the silent forest. They were gone. They had passed out of his life, and he faced the last bitter hour alone.

external and character-bound focalizors

500

What type of textual material is used in the following passage? For, though it may be sweeter to love, than to be loved, yet it is hard always to give and never to receive in return; and when Jane died, Rachel knew enough that all the love she had receive upon earth, had been given unto her.

argumentative

500

Determine the way the character’s discourse is represented:

The man was shocked. It was like hearing his own judgement of death. For a moment he sat and stared at the spot where the fire had been. Then he grew very calm. Perhaps the old man on Sulphur Creek was right. If he had a companion on the trial he would be in no danger now.

free indirect thought

500

Determine the type of anachrony: Mary was fast asleep. Her father bent over her with fond love, keeling in his breath. [...] Richard Jones had but that one child. He was twenty-one when he married Miss Smith. He proved the most humble and devoted of husbands. After three years, Mrs. Jones presented him with a sickly baby, which was named to its mother's name.

analepsis

500

What type of anachrony is used in the following film fragment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjatJ36cJvM

subjective prolepsis

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