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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Epistolary novels are novels written primarily as a series of fictional documents, typically letters.
• Sometimes, the documents are journal entries, newspaper clippings, and more.
• Hyperion ($1797$) is an epistolary novel by German author Friedrich Hölderlin.
• It consists primarily of letters sent between a Greek hermit named Hyperion and his friend Bellarmin.
• Absolutely Normal Chaos ($1990$) is an epistolary novel by US author Sharon Creech.
• It consists primarily of journal entries written by a student

The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two novels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

While the novel Hyperion consists primarily of letters, the novel Absolutely Normal Chaos consists primarily of journal entries.

B

Hyperion and Absolutely Normal Chaos are epistolary novels, which means they are written primarily as a series of documents.

C

Some epistolary novels consist primarily of journal entries, but most, like Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, consist primarily of letters.

D

Both Friedrich Hölderlin and Sharon Creech have written epistolary novels.