GCELiterature in EnglishNon-African Prose2019

The narrative technique predominantly used in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is

AFirst-person omniscient narration by Heathcliff
BA frame narrative involving Lockwood and Nelly DeanCORRECT
CThird-person limited narration focused on Catherine
DAn epistolary format using letters between characters
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Wuthering Heights employs a frame narrative structure: Lockwood, the new tenant, records events in his diary, while the housekeeper Nelly Dean serves as the primary narrator recounting the history of the Earnshaw and Linton families. This layered technique creates distance and ambiguity in the storytelling.
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