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This essay is a thorough examination of the stylistic features used by Dickens in "Great Expectations." It discusses vocabulary, speech presentation, narration, tense, sentence structure, and the effect that these have on the overall narrative.

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"Great Expectations recounts the development of the character of the narrator Philip Pirrip, commonly known as Pip, a village boy brought up by his termagant sister. He falls in love with the beautiful Estella, and aspires to become a gentleman. Money and wealth come to him from a mysterious source, and his benefactor proves to be the escaped convict Abel Magwitch whom he has met as a child in the first chapter. The novel is written in past tense using first person narrative, shifting from the young boy Pip to the mature Philip referring to himself as a child. The second sentence of the extract suggests that the narrator is not omniscient but represents events as though they are happening for the first time."

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