GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 45

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which works use a story-within-a-story structure with multiple narrators?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Wuthering Heights
Emma
Heart of Darkness

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Correct answer: (B) Wuthering Heights; (D) Heart of Darkness

Explanation

Wuthering Heights embeds Nelly’s account within Lockwood’s narration. Heart of Darkness embeds Marlow’s narrative within an outer narrator’s frame. These are B,D. The changing perspectives and free indirect discourse associated with the other novels are not the same framed storytelling arrangement.

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