Question

If two scenes with the same basic action appear at the beginning and end of a chapter, those scenes may be acting as ___________.

through lines
metaphors
bookends
narrative arcs

Answer 1

Bookends

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Answer 2

Bookends.

Step-by-step explanation:

If an author chooses to begin his story with a narrative or a scene which seems to achieve its own plot at the very end of the book it can be qualified as a bookends technique.

The bookends technique serves to assure unity of a written work. It somewhat encloses the story and therefore attributes to the work a quality of having a circular composition. This is a more general term by which the story ends the way it began, leaving the impression of a narrative's never-ending flow.