Remember, in Section A, you'll always be asked something to do with narrative techniques, or the way the story is told.
As well as all the literary techniques which I posted on the blog yesterday, you should also think about the following.
*Reliable/Unreliable narrator. How closely involved in the action/story is the narrator? Are they telling us everything? Are they skewing the accuracy of the story for any reason? How much can we rely on them, considering the subject matter?
*Person - (First/Third) What are the benefits/disadvantages of these? Which is used? In the Kite Runner, there are switches in person. Why is this done?
*Narrator - Both the Kite Runner AND Gatsby switch narrators at times. Why? What does this do? How does this affect our understanding of the story?
*Sequence of events. Are any of the following techninques used?
-Cinematic sequencing?
-Telescoping?
-Deletion (of events)
-Ellision (of unimportant events)
-Flashback
-Change in time-frame or era
*Anaphoric reference - referring back to parts of the novel from earlier
*Foreshadowing
*Allegory (the plot refers to a much wider context)
*Inter-textuality - referring to other texts to support the meaning of this one.
Mention some or all of these in section A if you can.
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