Exercise 1

 a) Verbs that introduced actions and thoughts: had reached, stood, looking, watched, felt,sliced, knew,read,walking,remembered,asked,loved,resent ,sriveved.

 b) Third person narrator: first and second line.

Interior monologue: from line third line to the end of the extract.

Exercise 2

a) Negative aspects of her personality: she doesn't think herself clever, she knows nothing.

Positive aspects of her personality: she knows people by instinct.

b) ) Clarissa remembered the past through situations, places, friends and actions and it seems she is happy.
She says to love her present although she had contradictory feelings.

c) She feels very young and aged at the same time; she feels to belong to world and also not to

belong to it.

d) Clarissa doesn't know if she prefers not to exist or if she is afraid to die. She understands that she

doesn't feel part of the world and she hasn't a life even if she might remain in her parents' mind.

The quotation from Shakespeare refers to her feelings, because like her it tries to find a place in

the world and she must not have fear,

Exercise 3

a) 1. Free indirect thought( line 3):"She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that"

     2. Third-person narration from inside the character's point of view (line 4): "She felt very young at the same time was outside...aged"

     3. Free direct thought ( line 29): "What was she trying to recover?"

     4. Direct questions with verb tense in indirect form (line 20): "Did it matter then she asked herself".

b) The simile "being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best" fulfill the function of describe Clarissa's feelings: she feels "laid out" from the world. The repetition of "what" underlines her attempt to find herself.