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"<span>A. create a scene in the reader's mind."
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Life of Pi<span> even flirts with nonfiction genres. The Author's Note, for example, claims that the story of Piscine Molitor Patel is a true story that the author, Yann Martel, heard while backpacking through Pondicherry, and the novel, with its first-person narrator, is structured as a memoir.</span>
Written sentence has a formal style and tone.