An author might use the framed narrative technique to

An author might use the framed narrative technique to develop his or her narrator as a character.

Explanation:

The framed narrative technique helps the writer to write a story within a story, then by making the narrator a character, we can have two stories one inside of another, the original one and the story of the narrator who is seen how the other story advances and at the end the reader get to know the elements of both stories.

the answer would be c   i believe thats the most reasonable answer