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Serialisation — GCSE English Literature Definition

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GCSE English Literature · key term

Serialisation

Definition

Publication of a story in successive instalments rather than all at once.

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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

Paper 1

Publication of a work in successive instalments rather than all at once.
Serialisation helps explain why Dickens manages revelation so carefully: readers follow Pip’s discoveries over time, rather than receiving every explanation at the outset.
Revise: Context
Revise: Writer's methods

AQA English Literature past papers

OCR GCSE English Literature

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· J352

Paper 1

The publication of a story in successive instalments rather than all at once.
Revise: Context
Publication of a story in successive parts rather than all at once.
Revise: Writer's methods

OCR English Literature past papers