“We can’t tell them anything”, I said, without thinking.
This is proper because when a person says something in the novel these (“”) must be used to isolate their words.
Look at this example as well:
According to Abraham Lincoln, “America will never be destroyed on the outside”. This means _________
I can't see the examples. But assonance means a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).
I believe that as a child he was wounded by the tusk of a wild boar when he was out hunting with some relatives (grandfather and uncle), and that wound left a scar on him.
