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For this assignment, please read the passage below from Part One of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. We will be exploring this work throughout this module.
Part One: Identify each syntactical element below.
Number of total sentences.
Length of sentences (word count).
Number of prepositional phrases.
Number of dependent clauses.
Number of fragments.
Examples of asyndeton or polysyndeton.
Number of em dashes.
Number of semi-colons.
Number of sentences per paragraph.
Number of clauses or words with quotation marks used.
âAlways certain of what he wanted from the world, Mr. Clutter had in large measure obtained it. On his left hand, on what remained of a finger once mangled by a piece of farm machinery, he wore a plain gold band, which was the symbol, a quarter-century old, of his marriage to the person he had wished to marryâthe sister of a college classmate, a timid, pious, delicate girl named Bonnie Fox, who was three years younger than he. She had given him four childrenâa trio of daughters, then a son. The eldest daughter, Eveanna, married and the mother of a boy ten months old, lived in northern Illinois but visited Holcomb frequently. Indeed, she and her family were expected within the fortnight, for her parents planned a sizable Thanksgiving reunion of the Clutter clan (which had its beginnings in Germany; the first immigrant Clutterâor Klotter, as the name was then spelledâarrived here in 1880); fifty-odd kinfolk had been asked, several of whom would be traveling from places as far away as Palatka, Florida. Nor did Beverly, the child next in age to Eveanna, any longer reside at River Valley Farm; she was in Kansas City, Kansas, studying to be a nurse. Beverly was engaged to a young biology student, of whom her father very much approved; invitations to the wedding, scheduled for Christmas Week, were already printed. Which left, still living at home, the boy, Kenyon, who at fifteen was taller than Mr. Clutter, and one sister, a year olderâthe town darling, Nancy.
In regard to his family, Mr. Clutter had just one serious cause for disquietâhis wifeâs health. She was ânervous,â she suffered âlittle spellsââsuch were the sheltering expressions used by those close to her. Not that the truth concerning âpoor Bonnieâs afflictionsâ was in the least a secret; everyone knew she had been an on-and-off psychiatric patient the last half-dozen years. Yet even upon this shadowed terrain sunlight had very lately sparkled. The past Wednesday, returning from two weeks of treatment at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, her customary place of retirement, Mrs. Clutter had brought scarcely credible tidings to tell her husband; with joy she informed him that the source of her misery, so medical opinion had at last decreed, was not in her head but in her spineâit was physical, a matter of misplaced vertebrae. Of course, she must undergo an operation, and afterwardâwell, she would be her âold selfâ again. Was it possibleâthe tension, the withdrawals, the pillow-muted sobbing behind locked doors, all due to an out-of-order backbone? If so, then Mr. Clutter could, when addressing his Thanksgiving table, recite a blessing of unmarred gratitude. â
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