Pride and Prejudice Game

The Game

Instructions:

Complete the sentences by choosing the best option. Once the text is completed, you'll be able to find out more about Jane Austen's literary style.

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

narrator

"FREE INDIRECT STYLE"

This is a literary style that allows the narrator’s voice to share with us the words, 1) ________ or feelings of the characters, without telling us that this is what they are doing. This means that the character’s thoughts or words slip into the 2) __________ narrative. It’s almost as though the narrator is the 3) _________ for a moment, but they’re not – they’re still the narrator. Importantly, the 4) _______ or thought is not attributed to the character (for example with a ‘she thought’ or ‘he imagined’), so the reader must pick up on clues in the text to understand that these are the thoughts of the character, not the 5)_________.

character

thoughts

thoughts

third-person

character

third-person

speech

speech

continue

narrator

"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

insight

Of course, Jane Austen doesn’t use this style with every character; she mainly reserves it for her 6) _______. It allows her to give us a vivid 7) ______ into the minds of her characters, but it can also be 8)_________: because the narrator does not tell us that they are 9)_________ the thoughts of the character, we may not realise that this is what they are doing, and may 10) ________ the point of view of a character for that of the narrator. This can be 11) _________, as the character in question may be wrong or mistaken.

misleading

heroine

ambiguous

insight

ambiguous

heroine

sharing

mistake

mistake

sharing

misleading

the end

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