A novelist employs a complex, non-linear narrative in which key plot points are revealed through unreliable narrators. Which risk increases as the narrative's ambiguity intensifies?

💡 Explanation

As narrative ambiguity rises, reader interpretation will increasingly diverge, because the reader's personal biases have increased influence through the Incomplete Information mechanism, opening the door for various possible worldviews to become active. Therefore interpretive divergence rises, rather than predictability, because the ambiguities are intended to foster open interpretation.

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