Question

Read the excerpt from On the Road.

Answer 1

Answer:

C) Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the natural ease and flow of informal conversation

Explanation:

"Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound ..." This quotation exemplifies Kerouac’s use of  conversational syntax, which means that some words are omitted. He does not use all the words in the expression , the first time in New York. The reader assumes it refers to Dean and Marylou's first time in New York.  The use of colloquial words also gives the text a conversational tone: sharp chick-  smart woman- . Then , the writer, jumps onto another event ; he tells how these two persons arrived in New York: they got off the Greyhound bus. The reader has to reconstruct the whole idea. This could be :  Dean and Marylou arrived in New York for the first time. They had got by bus from Greyhound  and  got off at 50th Street.

Answer 2

C) Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the natural ease and flow of informal conversation.