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Which option is a characteristic of an unreliable narrator?

a. intends to deceive others
b. does not intend to deceive others
c. deceives others, whether intentionally or unintentionally
d. recounts events in a distant narrative style

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C. Deceives others, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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c. deceives others, whether intentionally or unintentionally

An unreliable narrator is a reciter whose reliability has been severely discredited. Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction 1961 has discovered the term unreliable narrator. While untrustworthy storytellers are first-person narrators, whereas evidence has been made for the occurrence of unreliable second- and third-person narrators, primarily within the circumstances of film and television, although sometimes also in history.

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