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GCSE English Literature · key term
The use of letters or other written documents to tell a story or part of it.
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Paper 1
A narrative form which uses letters or other written documents to tell some or all of a story.
The use of letters or other written documents to tell parts or all of a story.
The use of letters or written correspondence to tell part or all of a story.
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The use of letters or other written documents to tell a story. Lanyon's written testimony contributes to the novella's epistolary form.
The use of letters and other written documents to tell a story or reveal information.
Storytelling through letters or other written documents.
Writing presented through letters. Frankenstein’s opening and closing letters give the novel an epistolary frame.
A narrative presented through letters. In Frankenstein, Walton's letters to his sister introduce and contain Victor's account.
A form of writing that tells a story through letters. Frankenstein uses Walton’s letters to Margaret Saville to open and close the novel.
A narrative presented through letters, as in Walton’s correspondence with his sister in Frankenstein.
Writing in the form of letters. Austen inserts letters into her prose narrative to reveal character, communicate events and control when information becomes available.
Paper 2
Writing that uses letters or other personal documents to tell a story.
A narrative presented through written documents, such as letters. Jekyll's urgent letter is embedded within Lanyon's written account.
Writing presented through letters. Frankenstein has an epistolary frame: Walton writes to his sister, Margaret Saville.
Writing presented through letters. Letters reveal the writer’s perspective while addressing a particular recipient.
A form of writing that tells a story through letters.
The use of letters to tell a story or reveal characters’ perspectives.
Paper 1
A form of writing that uses letters. In Chapter 9, Jekyll’s letter is reproduced within Lanyon’s written account.
Writing presented through letters or correspondence. Stevenson uses letters and sealed documents to preserve evidence while delaying its revelation.
A narrative form that tells all or part of a story through letters or other written documents.
Component 2
Writing presented as letters. Letters within a novel can reveal a character’s voice and introduce information unavailable to other characters.
Writing in the form of letters. Austen embeds letters within the novel to reveal character and control when information reaches Elizabeth and the reader.
A way of telling a story through letters or other written documents.
An element of storytelling that uses letters or other written communications to present events and reveal information.
Writing presented through letters or other documents, allowing characters to communicate events in their own words.
A form of writing told through letters.
