Exercise 1 a)had reached, stood, looking, watched, felt,sliced, knew, read, walking, remembered, asked, loved, resent, are the verbs that introduce actions and thoughts. b) Virginia Woolf in this extract uses the third person narrator in the first line. In the other lines she uses the interior monologue. Exercise 2 a) Aspects of personality that Clarissa considers negative: inner contrast, she does not consider herself intelligent ("not that she thought herself clever", "she knew nothing"). Aspects of personality that Clarissa considers positive: she does not give judgements - “her only gift was knowing people almost by instincts", "she was positive". b) Clarissa rememberes the past through, friends, actions, situations and places. c) Contradictory aspects in her personality: she feels young, but at the same time aged; she feels to belong to this world, but at the same time she feels out of it; she slices like a knife through everything, but at the same time she is outside. d) 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) -Free indirect thought: "She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that" -Third-person narration from inside the character's point of view (line 4): "She felt very young at the same time was outside...aged" -Free direct thought ( line 29): "What was she trying to recover?" -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" has the function of describing Clarissa's feelings: she feels "laid out" from the world.