Excerpt from Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
"For having lived in Westminster-how many years now? Over twenty,-one feels even in the midst of
the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush or solemnity; an indescribable
pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said by influenza) before Big Ben!
strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning musical; then the hour,irrevocable."
1Big Ben is a large clock in London England.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway.Penguin Classics, 2020. [Used according to 17 U.S.Code 9.107-Limitations on exclusive rights:
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In the excerpt from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which technique does Woolf use to craft her narrative
voice?
Answer
a. Flashback
b. Stream of Consciousness
c. Pacing
d. Flash-forward