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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 34

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

Which of the following narrative(s) has/have an intrusive narrator?

  1. Tom Jones
  2. “The Killers”
  3. War and Peace
  4. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

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Correct answer: (A) Tom Jones; (C) War and Peace

Explanation

Fielding in Tom Jones and Tolstoy in War and Peace comment openly on the story. Hemingway's two stories are told in an objective, detached way.