The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something a

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The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.

The author’s purpose in this passage is to

criticize.
entertain.
inform.
persuade.

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inform.

The passage explains (compares chapters to a building and contrasts words/reading with bricks/seeing), so the author's purpose is to convey information or explain an idea.

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