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What is the purpose of Joyce's interior monologue technique?
What is the purpose of Joyce's interior monologue technique?
- To provide background information about the character
- To create suspense in the plot
- To put readers inside a character's mind (correct)
- To describe the setting of the story
What is an epiphany according to Joyce?
What is an epiphany according to Joyce?
- A sudden spiritual awakening (correct)
- A moment of confusion
- A moment of anger
- A moment of physical pain
How can epiphanies manifest?
How can epiphanies manifest?
- Only in speech
- Only in the mind itself
- In speech, gesture, or the mind itself (correct)
- Only in gesture
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Study Notes
- Joyce's writings frequently use interior monologue.
- This technique puts readers inside a character's mind.
- Joyce's writings also have peaks of intensity called "epiphanies."
- An epiphany is a sudden spiritual awakening.
- Ordinary thoughts and feelings come together to produce a new awareness.
- Epiphanies are delicate and evanescent moments.
- Joyce believed it was important for writers to record epiphanies carefully.
- Woolf's idea of "vision" is similar to Joyce's epiphany.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man includes a definition of epiphany.
- Epiphanies can manifest in speech, gesture, or the mind itself.
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