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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 HÃ¶lderlin.
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?

Accepted Answer

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

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

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Some epistolary novels consist primarily of journal entries, but most, like Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin's Hyperion, consist primarily of letters.

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Both Friedrich HÃ¶lderlin and Sharon Creech have written epistolary novels.

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