Question

Read this excerpt from "Eavesdropping" by Eudora Welty and answer the question. What they talked about, I have no idea … . It was no doubt whatever a young married couple spending their first time privately in each other’s company in the long, probably harried day would talk about. It was the murmur of their voices, the back-and-forth, the unnoticed stretching away of time between my bedtime and theirs, that made me bask there at my distance. What I felt was not that I was excluded from them but that I was included, in – and because of – what I could hear in their voices and what I could see of their faces in the cone of yellow light under the brown-scorched shade. In the above excerpt, which words best establish immediacy? "It was no doubt … " "What I felt … " "What they talked about …" "made me bask there at my distance"

Answer 1

Answer:

Option B. The words "What I felt" best establish immediacy in the above excerpt.

Explanation:

In the excerpt from "Eavesdropping" written by Eudora Welty, the author establishes immediacy in the story line by the use of words such as "What I felt." Immediacy is defined as the quality of bringing into a direct involvement with something, which gives a right sense of some sort of urgency. In literature immediacy is used to state directness and a lack of an intervention agent within the plot. When using words such as "What I felt" the reader is getting the direct and immediate perception of the character rather than a washed-out observation.