OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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GCSE English Literature · key term
The use of letters within a narrative. Letters can reveal a writer’s character, communicate distant events and control when characters and readers receive information.
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The use of letters and other written documents to tell a story. Stevenson uses this technique within the novella, especially in its final revelations.
Revise: Dr LanyonChapter 9 changes to Lanyon’s first-person written testimony. This epistolary technique gives readers direct access to a witness whom they previously saw only from outside.
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