Which term describes how close or distant a reader feels from the narrator's thoughts?

Which term describes how close or distant a reader feels from the narrator's thoughts?

• A. Pathetic fallacy
• B. Perspective
• C. First-person narrative
• D. Narrator

Answer: (B)

Perspective is about the narrator’s point of view and how much of the narrator’s inner thoughts and feelings the reader can access. When the perspective is close—like a first-person narrator or a close third-person narration—the reader feels near the narrator’s thoughts and experiences. When the perspective is more distant, the reader sees more actions and speech and less interior detail. That sense of how near or far the reader is from the narrator’s thoughts is what “perspective” captures. The other terms aren’t about this closeness: pathetic fallacy is a stylistic device linking environment to emotion, a first-person narrative is a way of telling the story that can be close but is specifically about who speaks, and a narrator is the voice telling the story rather than the degree of closeness.

Perspective is about the narrator’s point of view and how much of the narrator’s inner thoughts and feelings the reader can access. When the perspective is close—like a first-person narrator or a close third-person narration—the reader feels near the narrator’s thoughts and experiences. When the perspective is more distant, the reader sees more actions and speech and less interior detail. That sense of how near or far the reader is from the narrator’s thoughts is what “perspective” captures. The other terms aren’t about this closeness: pathetic fallacy is a stylistic device linking environment to emotion, a first-person narrative is a way of telling the story that can be close but is specifically about who speaks, and a narrator is the voice telling the story rather than the degree of closeness.