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What happens when speech is presented

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What happens when speech is presented

Task D - Self test

The last task is a self-test, to help you to see how well you have understood the speech presentation categories, before you move on to the next page, where we will see the categories at work in fictional texts.

For each sentence of the little story below, indicate which speech presentation category you think is involved. If you are unsure about any of your answers, you can look back at the speech presentation scale in Task C.

IS = Indirect Speech
FIS = Free Indirect Speech
DS = Direct Speech

N = Narration
NV = Narrators's Representation of Voice
NRSA = Narrator's Representation of Speech Act

1. John told Mary, his fiancée the story of his upbringing.
2. 'I lived in a pig sty until I was seven,' he said.
3. He talked with a charming soft grunt.
4. Then he rolled on his back on the floor.
5. Mary told him he ought to get up before her parents came back from the kitchen.
6. And he really ought to stop that ridiculous snuffling too!
7. He damn well wasn't going to put up with personal jibes like that, he replied.
8. 'Either you love me for what I am or we're finished'.
9. Mary apologised for her unreasonably swinist attitude.
10. They lived happily ever after in a small bungalow near the Trough of Bowland.

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