Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

The excerpt above is an example of the author using direct address.

The author, after telling what he/she wants to tell, directs the reader directly to make it sympathize with the characters in the story and reflect.

Answer 2

The correct answer is The excerpt above is an example of the author using direct address.

The author is using the direct address when he invites the reader to make a reflexion in “Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms nowdays….” The author is speaking directly to the reader.

In Grammar, Direct Address is considered a construction. In this construction, the writer or the speaker sends a message directly to another person that could have a name or the pronoun “you”, accompanied with a comment. Usually, the person’s name who is been addressed is set off by a comma to be grammatically correct.