GRE General Test: SE-505581 GRE Sentence Equivalence

An epistolary novel, composed of fictitious correspondence between its characters, may seem _____ to the contemporary reader who writes few letters and who may doubt that anyone could have such incessant recourse to the pen.
Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning