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GCSE English Literature · key term
A gap in a narrative during which time passes without every intervening event being narrated.
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Paper 2
Revise: Chapters 16 to 18: sixteen years laterThe time jump lets Eliot show the lasting consequences of earlier choices without narrating every year. She then fills in important developments through descriptions, remembered conversations and access to characters’ thoughts.
Component 2
A break in a narrative that moves the story forward over a period of time, leaving some intervening events to be explained later.
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The time jump allows readers to judge the lasting value of that change.
