Topic 10 (session A) - Prose analysis > Bilgewater: Speech & thought presentation > Task F

Bilgewater: Speech & thought presentation

Task F - Thought presentation - sentences 14-16

Now work out what thought presentation category is involved in the following sentences (they are the first three sentences of an eight-sentence stretch we identified in Task A).

How does your view of the character compare with what we have seen in sentences 1 and 10?
How close to her thoughts are you now?
Then compare your thoughts with ours.

(14) The first had been as she had expected - carping, snappish, harsh, watchful - unfriendly even before you had your hand off the door handle. (15) Seeing how much you could take. (16) Typical Cambridge.

Our answer

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