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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which work established Vladimir Propp's structural analysis of Russian folktales?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Morphology of the Folktale presents Propp's structural study of Russian wonder tales.
• Propp analyses tales through recurrent character functions rather than through themes or individual styles.
• Narrative Discourse is associated with Gérard Genette, while The Fantastic and The Poetics of Prose are associated with Tzvetan Todorov.
• Propp's work strongly influenced structuralist narratology.
• Propp analyses tales through recurrent character functions rather than through themes or individual styles.
• Narrative Discourse is associated with Gérard Genette, while The Fantastic and The Poetics of Prose are associated with Tzvetan Todorov.
• Propp's work strongly influenced structuralist narratology.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In Propp's terminology, a function is best defined as:
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Explanation:
• Propp defines a function as an action viewed in terms of its significance for the development of the plot.
• The same function may be performed by different characters in different tales.
• Functions are structural units rather than descriptions of psychology or style.
• This distinction enables comparison among tales with different characters and settings.
• The same function may be performed by different characters in different tales.
• Functions are structural units rather than descriptions of psychology or style.
• This distinction enables comparison among tales with different characters and settings.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
How many functions does Propp identify in the morphology of the Russian wonder tale?
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Explanation:
• Propp identifies thirty-one possible functions in the structure of the Russian wonder tale.
• Not every tale contains all thirty-one functions.
• When functions occur, their general sequence remains stable.
• The number seven refers instead to his major spheres of action or character roles.
• Not every tale contains all thirty-one functions.
• When functions occur, their general sequence remains stable.
• The number seven refers instead to his major spheres of action or character roles.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Which of the following belongs to Propp's seven spheres of action?
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Explanation:
• The false hero is one of Propp's seven spheres of action.
• The other spheres include the villain, donor, helper, princess and her father, dispatcher and hero.
• Implied reader and focalizer are concepts from other areas of narrative theory.
• Propp's spheres classify characters according to their structural roles in the tale.
• The other spheres include the villain, donor, helper, princess and her father, dispatcher and hero.
• Implied reader and focalizer are concepts from other areas of narrative theory.
• Propp's spheres classify characters according to their structural roles in the tale.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which sequence is most closely associated with Todorov's model of narrative transformation?
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Explanation:
• Todorov's model describes narrative as movement from an initial equilibrium through disruption toward a transformed equilibrium.
• Recognition of the disturbance and an attempt to repair it form intermediate stages.
• The final state need not duplicate the initial equilibrium exactly.
• The model expresses a structural grammar of narrative change.
• Recognition of the disturbance and an attempt to repair it form intermediate stages.
• The final state need not duplicate the initial equilibrium exactly.
• The model expresses a structural grammar of narrative change.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which distinction best describes story and discourse in narratology?
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Explanation:
• Story refers to the events, actions and situations that can be reconstructed from a narrative.
• Discourse refers to the organization and presentation of those events in the narrated text.
• A discourse may rearrange chronology, alter pace and restrict information.
• The distinction allows narratologists to separate what happens from how it is narrated.
• Discourse refers to the organization and presentation of those events in the narrated text.
• A discourse may rearrange chronology, alter pace and restrict information.
• The distinction allows narratologists to separate what happens from how it is narrated.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
In Genette's terminology, which set correctly names the three aspects of narrative?
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Explanation:
• Genette distinguishes story, narrative discourse and the act of narrating.
• Story concerns the events signified, while narrative discourse is the verbal account that presents them.
• Narrating refers to the situation or act that produces the narrative.
• This threefold distinction clarifies different levels of narrative analysis.
• Story concerns the events signified, while narrative discourse is the verbal account that presents them.
• Narrating refers to the situation or act that produces the narrative.
• This threefold distinction clarifies different levels of narrative analysis.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
A narrative returns from the present action to recount an earlier event. Genette calls this movement:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Analepsis is a retrospective movement that narrates an event occurring earlier than the current point of the story.
• It is commonly described as a flashback.
• Prolepsis anticipates a later event instead.
• Genette analyses both as forms of anachrony under the category of order.
• It is commonly described as a flashback.
• Prolepsis anticipates a later event instead.
• Genette analyses both as forms of anachrony under the category of order.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
A narrator anticipates an event that will occur later in the story. This is an example of:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Prolepsis is an anticipatory narrative movement toward a future event in the story.
• It is often called a flashforward.
• Ellipsis concerns duration, while repetitive narration concerns frequency.
• Internal focalization concerns the restriction of information through a character's perspective.
• It is often called a flashforward.
• Ellipsis concerns duration, while repetitive narration concerns frequency.
• Internal focalization concerns the restriction of information through a character's perspective.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which relation between story time and narrative time is most characteristic of a scene?
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Explanation:
• In a scene, narrative time approximately corresponds to the duration of the represented event.
• Dialogue is a common example because the time taken to read it may resemble the time of the conversation.
• Ellipsis omits a period of story time, while pause suspends story progression.
• Iterative narration recounts repeated events once and belongs to frequency.
• Dialogue is a common example because the time taken to read it may resemble the time of the conversation.
• Ellipsis omits a period of story time, while pause suspends story progression.
• Iterative narration recounts repeated events once and belongs to frequency.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
When several years of a character's life are narrated in a few sentences, the dominant relation of duration is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Summary compresses a comparatively long span of story time into a short stretch of narrative discourse.
• It accelerates the pace of narration.
• Scene tends toward an approximate equality between story time and narrative time.
• Pause and analepsis concern different aspects of duration and order.
• It accelerates the pace of narration.
• Scene tends toward an approximate equality between story time and narrative time.
• Pause and analepsis concern different aspects of duration and order.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
A narrative states once that a character visited the library every evening for a year. Genette classifies this as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Iterative narration tells once what happened repeatedly in the story.
• The statement condenses many visits into a single narrative formulation.
• Singulative narration tells once what happened once.
• Repetitive narration tells several times what happened once.
• The statement condenses many visits into a single narrative formulation.
• Singulative narration tells once what happened once.
• Repetitive narration tells several times what happened once.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Propp's functions are more stable than the identities of the characters who perform them.
Reason: Different characters can carry out the same structural action in different folktales.
Reason: Different characters can carry out the same structural action in different folktales.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Propp treats functions as stable structural elements across tales.
• The Reason is correct because the same function may be performed by a prince, an animal, a magical helper or another figure.
• This variability of agents explains why function is structurally more important than individual character identity.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because the same function may be performed by a prince, an animal, a magical helper or another figure.
• This variability of agents explains why function is structurally more important than individual character identity.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Match List I with List II.
List I
1. Analepsis
2. Prolepsis
3. Summary
4. Ellipsis
List II
I. Omission of a span of story time
II. Retrospective narration
III. Compression of story time
IV. Anticipatory narration
List I
1. Analepsis
2. Prolepsis
3. Summary
4. Ellipsis
List II
I. Omission of a span of story time
II. Retrospective narration
III. Compression of story time
IV. Anticipatory narration
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Analepsis matches II because it narrates an earlier event retrospectively.
• Prolepsis matches IV because it anticipates a later event.
• Summary matches III because it compresses an extended period of story time.
• Ellipsis matches I because it omits a span of story time from the discourse.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-IV, 3-III, 4-I.
• Prolepsis matches IV because it anticipates a later event.
• Summary matches III because it compresses an extended period of story time.
• Ellipsis matches I because it omits a span of story time from the discourse.
• Therefore, the correct code is 1-II, 2-IV, 3-III, 4-I.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
In Genette's framework, which question belongs primarily to the category of mood?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mood concerns the regulation of narrative information through distance and perspective.
• Focalization, or the question of who perceives, is therefore analysed under mood.
• Voice concerns who speaks and the narrator's relation to narrative levels.
• Frequency concerns how often events occur and how often they are narrated.
• Focalization, or the question of who perceives, is therefore analysed under mood.
• Voice concerns who speaks and the narrator's relation to narrative levels.
• Frequency concerns how often events occur and how often they are narrated.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
A narrator knows more than any single character and moves freely among several minds. This is an example of:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Zero focalization occurs when the narrator's knowledge exceeds that of any individual character.
• Such a narrator may reveal multiple characters' thoughts and information unavailable to them.
• Fixed internal focalization restricts perception to one character.
• External focalization reports less than characters know and avoids access to their inner thoughts.
• Such a narrator may reveal multiple characters' thoughts and information unavailable to them.
• Fixed internal focalization restricts perception to one character.
• External focalization reports less than characters know and avoids access to their inner thoughts.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
A novel presents events consistently through the perceptions and knowledge of one character. The dominant mode is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fixed internal focalization restricts narrative information to the perspective of one character.
• Readers learn only what that focal character perceives, knows or remembers.
• Zero focalization permits a wider field of knowledge than any character possesses.
• External focalization limits narration to observable behaviour without access to consciousness.
• Readers learn only what that focal character perceives, knows or remembers.
• Zero focalization permits a wider field of knowledge than any character possesses.
• External focalization limits narration to observable behaviour without access to consciousness.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
A narrative reports only a character's visible actions and speech while withholding the character's thoughts. This is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• External focalization presents characters from the outside and withholds direct access to their minds.
• The narrator reports observable behaviour, speech and circumstances.
• Internal focalization gives access to a character's perceptions or thoughts.
• Autodiegetic narration concerns the narrator's role in the story, not the range of information.
• The narrator reports observable behaviour, speech and circumstances.
• Internal focalization gives access to a character's perceptions or thoughts.
• Autodiegetic narration concerns the narrator's role in the story, not the range of information.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
A narrator who participates as a character in the story being narrated is called:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A homodiegetic narrator is present as a character in the story that the narrator tells.
• The narrator may be a witness, companion or central participant.
• A heterodiegetic narrator is absent from the story world as a character.
• Extradiegetic and metadiegetic refer primarily to narrative levels.
• The narrator may be a witness, companion or central participant.
• A heterodiegetic narrator is absent from the story world as a character.
• Extradiegetic and metadiegetic refer primarily to narrative levels.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
A narrator who is absent as a character from the story being narrated is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A heterodiegetic narrator does not participate as a character in the narrated story.
• Many third-person narrators are heterodiegetic, though grammatical person alone is not the defining criterion.
• A homodiegetic narrator participates in the story.
• An autodiegetic narrator is a homodiegetic narrator who is also the protagonist.
• Many third-person narrators are heterodiegetic, though grammatical person alone is not the defining criterion.
• A homodiegetic narrator participates in the story.
• An autodiegetic narrator is a homodiegetic narrator who is also the protagonist.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which term describes a narrator who tells the story of which that narrator is the central protagonist?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• An autodiegetic narrator recounts a story in which the narrator is the principal character.
• Autodiegetic narration is a special form of homodiegetic narration.
• A homodiegetic witness may participate without being the protagonist.
• Heterodiegetic narration excludes the narrator from participation as a character.
• Autodiegetic narration is a special form of homodiegetic narration.
• A homodiegetic witness may participate without being the protagonist.
• Heterodiegetic narration excludes the narrator from participation as a character.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A narrator situated outside the primary story level and responsible for narrating that story is described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• An extradiegetic narrator stands outside the first-level story and narrates it.
• The term identifies the narrator's narrative level rather than the narrator's participation as a character.
• A narrator may be both extradiegetic and homodiegetic, as in an autobiographical narrative told from outside the completed story.
• Metadiegetic refers to a story embedded within another narrated story.
• The term identifies the narrator's narrative level rather than the narrator's participation as a character.
• A narrator may be both extradiegetic and homodiegetic, as in an autobiographical narrative told from outside the completed story.
• Metadiegetic refers to a story embedded within another narrated story.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A character within a primary narrative tells another complete story. The embedded story is located at which level?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A metadiegetic narrative is a story told within an already existing diegetic narrative.
• The character who tells it functions as an intradiegetic narrator at the primary story level.
• The embedded narrative creates a further narrative level.
• Zero focalization concerns perspective, not narrative embedding.
• The character who tells it functions as an intradiegetic narrator at the primary story level.
• The embedded narrative creates a further narrative level.
• Zero focalization concerns perspective, not narrative embedding.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Order concerns relations between the sequence of events in the story and their arrangement in discourse.
2. Duration concerns relations between story time and narrative time.
3. Frequency concerns relations between the number of occurrences and the number of narrations.
4. Voice concerns the narrating instance and its position.
1. Order concerns relations between the sequence of events in the story and their arrangement in discourse.
2. Duration concerns relations between story time and narrative time.
3. Frequency concerns relations between the number of occurrences and the number of narrations.
4. Voice concerns the narrating instance and its position.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because order analyses chronological sequence and anachronies.
• Statement 2 is correct because duration compares the time of events with the textual space or time devoted to them.
• Statement 3 is correct because frequency compares how often an event happens with how often it is narrated.
• Statement 4 is correct because voice examines who narrates, when narration occurs and at what level.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because duration compares the time of events with the textual space or time devoted to them.
• Statement 3 is correct because frequency compares how often an event happens with how often it is narrated.
• Statement 4 is correct because voice examines who narrates, when narration occurs and at what level.
• Therefore, all four statements are correct.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
A critic analyses a novel by reconstructing the chronological events, comparing them with their rearrangement in the text, measuring changes of pace and identifying shifts in focalization. Which method is being applied?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The critic separates story from discourse and studies order, duration and focalization.
• These are central categories in Genette's structural narratology.
• Reconstructing chronology reveals analepses and prolepses, while changes of pace reveal scene, summary, pause or ellipsis.
• The method analyses how narrative form organizes meaning rather than reducing the text to biography or moral allegory.
• These are central categories in Genette's structural narratology.
• Reconstructing chronology reveals analepses and prolepses, while changes of pace reveal scene, summary, pause or ellipsis.
• The method analyses how narrative form organizes meaning rather than reducing the text to biography or moral allegory.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Morphology of the Folktale సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. An action considered according to its significance for the course of the tale సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Thirty-one సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. False hero సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Equilibrium, disruption, recognition, repair and a new equilibrium సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Story is the sequence of events, whereas discourse is the manner in which those events are presented సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Story, narrative discourse and narrating act సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Analepsis సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. Prolepsis సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. Narrative time approximately equals story time సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Summary సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Iterative narration సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. 1-II, 2-IV, 3-III, 4-I సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: D. Through whose perspective is information perceived and restricted? సమాధానం: D.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: C. Zero focalization సమాధానం: C.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. Fixed internal focalization సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. External focalization సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. Homodiegetic సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Heterodiegetic సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Autodiegetic సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Extradiegetic సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Metadiegetic సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. 1, 2, 3 and 4 సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Structural analysis of narrative discourse సమాధానం: A.