EX. 1

a) List of verbs that introduce the actions and thoughts made by Mrs Dalloway: FELT, WATCHED, HAD REACHED, KNEW, STOOD, LOOKING, SLICED, THOUGHT, READ, ASKED, RESENT,  WALKING, REMEMBERED, LOVED, SURVIVED, LOOKED.

b) The intelligent reader is able to find out the kind of narrator right from the start: there is a third person omniscent narrator ("She had reached"), who knows everything about everyone. Additionaly interior monologue is used to develop the story.

EX. 2

a) In Mrs Dalloway’s mind are negative aspects of personality: inner contrast, in her opinonion she is not intelligent ("she knew nothing").

For Mrs Dalloway is positive the fact that she does not judge ("she would not say of anyone in the world") .

b) Clarissa recalls the past tank to people, situations, and places. She belives to live in a positive way, but she is not sure.


c) You can find out the inner contrast in Mrs Dalloway’s personality tank to different contrasts: she feels like a young girl, but at the same time she feels also an old woman; she slices like a knife through everything, but she is also outside. 

d) Mrs Dalloway is afraid of death. The quotation by Shakespeare concernes this bad feeling because it highlights that you must not be afraid of death.

EX. 3

a) Techniques:
1) Free Indirect Thought= "She would not say...that"
2) Free Direct Thought= "What was she trying to recover?"
 3)The third person narrator speaks from Mrs. Dalloway’s point of view = "She felt very young..aged"
 

b) Simile: "being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best".

"She sliced like  a knife trough everything". "If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's". 

c) Repetition: she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that"."out, out, far out", "very, very", "no language, no history", "she would not say of Peter,

The function of these rhetorical devices is to better connect the character and the reader. The reader is able to understand the character’s way of thinking, creating, for example, in his/her mind mental images.