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What narrative technique is used in As I Lay Dying?

William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying employs a stream-of-consciousness technique, in which 15 characters (several of them belonging to one family) take turns as the narrator. Each chapter features the voice (and interior monologue) of a different character. The novel also experiments with dialect and chapter length; one chapter contains only five words.