Mrs Dalloway 

EX 1

a) Verbs that introduce Mrs Dalloway's actions and thoughts:

b) in the first line you find a third person narrator ("She had.....Piccadilly").
In the next lines the narrator changes and ther's an interior monolgue.

EX 2

 a) Aspects of personality that Clarissa considers negative: inner contrast, she thinks that she's "not clever",or "she knew nothing".

Aspects of personality that Clarissa considers positive: she does not give judgements "she would not say of anyone in the world","her only gift was knowing people almost by instincts", "she was positive".

b) The past is remembered by Clarissa trought places, situations, actions and persons and it seems she's happy although she has conraddictory feelings. Otherwise she loves her present.

c) Contradictory aspects in her personality: she feels young, but also aged; she slices like a knife through everything, but at the same time she is outside; she feels to belong to this world, but out of it.

d) The character is not scared by death. She has a  positive feeling as the quotation from   Shakespeare highlights.

EXERCISE 3

a) Techniques:
1. FREE INDIRECT THOUGHT = "She would not say...that"
2. THIRD PERSON NARRATION FROM INSIDE THE CHARACTER'S POINT OF VIEW = "She felt very young..aged"
3. FREE DIRECT THOUGHT = "What was she trying to recover?"
4. DIRECT QUESTIONS WITH VERB TENSE IN INDIRECT FORM = "Did it matter then she asked herself...did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely"

b) Simile:

 "If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back LIKE a cat's"

"She sliced LIKE a knife trough everything"

"being laid out LIKE a mist between the people she knew best"

Repetition:

"out, out, far out"

"very, very"

"no ..., no.... ."

"she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself,"

"I am this, I am that".