alternating chapters

collocation in English

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alternating
adjective
uk
/ˈɒl.tə.neɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ˈɑːl.tɚ.neɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
with first one thing, then another thing, and then the first ...
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chapter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtʃæp.tər/us
/ˈtʃæp.tɚ/
any of the separate parts into which a book or other piece of text is divided, usually given a number ...
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The effect of this stylistic device is that the alternating chapters enlighten each other.
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Rather than a conventional narrative, the novel presents alternating chapters devoted to each of the four principal characters.
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The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters.
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It is told in alternating chapters, by two twelve-year-old boys.
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The novel is written in alternating chapters from the past and present.
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It is essentially two books, in more or less alternating chapters.
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Their stories are told in alternating chapters, and readers easily become invested in the fate of each.
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Inserted into this story, in alternating chapters, the narrator includes a series of whimsical digressions on various subjects.
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In a departure from the series format, this novel is set in alternating chapters both in the past of 1953 and the present of 1987.
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Perec's novel consists of alternating chapters of autobiography and of a fictional story, divided into two parts.
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Budrys tells the story in alternating chapters.
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