Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. i have committed to crossing my legs i hope carefully, ankle on knee, hands together in the lap of my slacks. my fingers are mated into a mirrored series of what manifests, to me, as the letter x. the interview room’s other personnel include: the university’s director of composition, its varsity tennis coach, and academy prorector mr. a. delint. c. t. is beside me; the others sit, stand and stand, respectively, at the periphery of my focus. the tennis coach jingles pocket-change. which of the following best describes the point of view in this excerpt? a)this excerpt uses first-person—the reader is led through the story by a character who is in the story and uses the pronouns “i” or “me.” b)this excerpt uses third-person limited—the narrator is outside the story and only reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character. c)this excerpt uses third-person—the reader is led through the story by a narrator who is outside the story, describing the action and characters. d)this excerpt uses objective point of view—the narrator is outside the story and describes what is seen and heard about the other characters the answer is a.

Option correct is A: This excerpt uses first-person—the reader is led through the story by a character who is in the story and uses the pronouns “I” or “me.”

In narrative texts, the voice that tells the story is very important because it works as the point of view from which we observe the story. The narrator limits the content, it is through his eyes that we observe the situations and circumstances.

There are different narrators, but two of them are the most frequent:

The narrator in the first person

The narrator in the third person.

The first person can be the protagonist or not of the narrated event, but it is always part of the communicative situation. It is also common for a first-person narrator to remember a story and tell it to the reader.

The third-person narrator can know all aspects of the story. In this case, we call him an omniscient narrator. Otherwise, you can focus the perspective of it on a character.

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.

1. both men a determined to break douglass.

2. douglass is still considered to be one of captain anthony's possessions.

3. douglass escapes to freedom in the north and changes his name.

4. the events are usually written from a distance in time.

5. the recording of events in chronological order.