From “A Visit from
the Goon Squad” (2010) by Jennifer Egan
Consider:
She lay with her body tensed, claiming the couch, her spot
in this room, her view of the window and walls, the faint hum that was always
there when she listened, and these minutes of Coz’s time: another, then
another, then one more.
Discuss.
1.
Describe this sentence. How is it constructed? What do you note about the sentence?
2.
This sentence makes syntactic and semantic sense
if it ends at the first comma. What do
the additional clauses add to the meaning and effectiveness of the sentence?
Apply.
Rewrite Egan’s sentence, matching it phrase for phrase,
punctuation mark by punctuation mark.
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