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Which statement best distinguishes story from plot in film analysis?
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5/9 05. Narrative and Narration Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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A film cuts from a character entering a car directly to the character arriving at work, leaving the journey unseen. Which narrative device is being used?
- A
Ellipsis
- B
Stretch
- C
Scene
- D
Flash-forward
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A character looks toward an unseen area while a threatening sound comes from that direction. What concept describes the significant area outside the frame?
- A
Screen time
- B
Story time
- C
Offscreen space
- D
Plot time
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Which two statements accurately describe restricted and unrestricted narration? Select all correct choices.
- A
Restricted narration may make viewers discover facts when a character does.
- B
Unrestricted narration always uses a voice-over narrator.
- C
Unrestricted narration may show viewers a threat that a character does not notice.
- D
Restricted narration requires the camera to remain in literal point-of-view shots.
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Which two statements correctly describe the dimensions of viewer knowledge called range and depth? Select all correct choices.
- A
Range asks whether a scene uses an establishing shot.
- B
Depth asks how long the story lasts.
- C
Range asks how much information viewers possess compared with characters.
- D
Depth asks how closely the film enters a character’s memories, dreams, or sensations.
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True or false
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True or false: A film can create a character-centered point of view even when it does not use literal point-of-view shots.
- A
True
- B
False
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True or false
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True or false: An antagonist must be a morally bad individual character who directly opposes the protagonist.
- A
True
- B
False
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Written response
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What is the narratological term for plot, understood as the film's presentation of story events?
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Written response
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How many kinds of narrative time does the material distinguish: story time, plot or discourse time, and screen time?
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Complete the definitions: Plot concerns the order and duration in which story events are . Narration is the process by which a film provides story .
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If viewers see a bomb placed under a table before characters sit down, the scene primarily creates .
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Open ended
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In the hypothetical suspense scene, a woman leaves her apartment while the film cuts to a hand turning an interior door handle; the woman remains unaware, and the scene ends before the door opens. Analyze how narration and space shape the viewer's response.
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Which statement best describes narration rather than merely story or plot?
- A
Narration is only dialogue spoken by a character.
- B
Narration is the coordinated process through which film techniques present story information.
- C
Narration is the chronological chain of events reconstructed by the viewer.
- D
Narration is limited to the film’s running time.
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A film shows a character leaving home, cuts directly to the character waiting beside a hospital bed, and never shows the journey. Which statement best applies the distinction between story and plot?
- A
The character’s arrival at the hospital is part of the narration because it is shown on screen.
- B
The character’s inferred journey from home to the hospital belongs to the story, while the film’s selection and ordering of the shown events belong to the plot.
- C
The character’s journey is the plot, while the hospital is the narration.
- D
The order in which viewers imagine the events is narration, regardless of what the film presents.
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A film cuts from a character entering a car directly to the character arriving at work, leaving the journey entirely unshown. What narrative-duration technique is being used?
- A
A stretch, because the journey receives unusually extended screen time.
- B
A scene, because the journey and its presentation have comparable duration.
- C
An ellipsis, because the interval between the two shown moments is omitted.
- D
A flash-forward, because arriving at work occurs later than entering the car.
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True or false
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True or false: If viewers see a danger that a character does not notice, the narration is unrestricted at that moment.
- A
True
- B
False
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Written response
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What term describes the area outside the frame that a film implies or makes significant through a character’s look, a sound, or an anticipated entrance?
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A film presents the same robbery first from a witness’s viewpoint and later from the robber’s viewpoint. Which aspect of narrative time is most directly being manipulated?
- A
Frequency
- B
Order
- C
Duration
- D
Screen time
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What term describes the viewer’s emotional or moral attitude toward a character, which may differ from the character whose experiences organize the narrative?
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Which example best illustrates restricted narration?
- A
The film shows every character’s private thoughts so that the audience has complete knowledge.
- B
The film presents events only in chronological order.
- C
The film repeats an event from several viewpoints to expand the audience’s information.
- D
The film withholds what is behind a character in a dark room, so viewers discover information along with that character.