#structure

Structure VII

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One of the best examples I can give is Harrow the Ninth, and I won't talk about the specifics to avoid spoilers, but the use of second person is not simply a stylistic choice but a functional one within the story itself.

You can think also of epistolaries where the fact that they are writing letters is part of the plot (not simply that they are exchanging information from a distance but that letters are physical things that can get lost or damaged and that take time to arrive or can be intercepted). An epistolary where, because the characters must encode information due to the risk of interception, the reader must decode that information to fully understand the plot would be an example of this.

This can also be done by playing with things like timeline--a story is non-linear not simply because it is a way to reveal information but because the POV character is not experiencing time fully linearly (either due to something like dementia/Alzheimer's or to something like magic).