Free indirect passages still use he, she and they. What does that show?

• the narration stays third person while borrowing the character mind
• the character narrates aloud
• pronouns prove full distance

The line reads the room felt cold, with no he thought tag. What is this?

• a printing error
• narrator and character voices blended in one sentence
• a change of narrator

In close third person, the writer may zoom from wide neutral telling to a tight stray thought.

Circle one:   True   False

A passage opens on the town square at dusk, then gives her raw unmarked verdict on the crowd. Where did distance move?

• it stayed wide throughout
• it pulled from wide description into tight character thought
• it left third person

A plain report sentence contains the word idiot for a neighbour. Whose judgement is it?

• the neutral narrator fact
• the neighbour himself
• the followed character, since no outsider would state it flatly

Two claims share a sentence: the street was empty and nobody decent was out. How do you split them?

• both are narrator facts
• both belong to the crowd
• the empty street reads as report, decent reads as her judgement

What does the blur do to the reader at the slipped-in verdict?

• it pushes the reader inside her view before any warning arrives
• it tells the reader to distrust every narrator
• it shortens the novel

A student insists every sentence is either pure narrator or pure character. A sentence carries both. What is the correction?

• pick one voice and ignore the other
• admit the blur: the sentence does its work by carrying both at once
• blame the translation