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Austen's Narrator and Free Indirect Discourse — Homework
Read the assigned opening chapters of Pride and Prejudice before answering.
- 1.Explain the irony in the novel's opening sentence in two or three sentences.
- 2.Define free indirect discourse in one sentence.
- 3.Rewrite this direct thought as free indirect discourse: Mr. Bennet thought that his wife would talk of nothing else for weeks.
- 4.Find one sentence from this week's reading that you believe uses free indirect discourse, quote or paraphrase it, and explain which specific words tip it toward the character's perspective.
- 5.In two or more sentences, explain why free indirect discourse allows for sharper irony than either fully neutral narration or directly quoted thought.
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