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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.
• The Screwtape Letters (1942) is an epistolary novel by British author C.S. Lewis.
• It consists primarily of letters sent between a character named Screwtape and his nephew, Wormwood.
• Parable of the Sower (1993) is an epistolary novel by American author Octavia Butler.
• It consists primarily of journal entries written by a teenager living in an apocalyptic society.

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

Some epistolary novels consist primarily of journal entries, but most, like C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, consist primarily of letters.

B

Both C.S. Lewis and Octavia Butler have written epistolary novels.

C

While the novel The Screwtape Letters consists primarily of letters, the novel Parable of the Sower consists primarily of journal entries.

D

The Screwtape Letters and Parable of the Sower are epistolary novels, which means they are written primarily as a series of documents.