Unreliable memory: The representation of memory as subjective, partial, and potentially distorted, used as a narrative device.
How to apply it: Analyze how a character's unreliable memory creates uncertainty and what the distortions reveal about desire, trauma, or self-deception.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Longer Fiction or Drama II
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