From the way the author chooses to start this book, the reader can conclude that A) the narrator talks like a small child. B) the narrator talks like an adolescent. C) the narrator talks like a very old man. D) the narrator talks like a middle-aged man.

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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce, Chapter 1 excerpt:



Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming


down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road


met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...



His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a


glass: he had a hairy face.



He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne


lived: she sold lemon platt.



O, the wild rose blossoms


On the little green place.



He sang that song. That was his song.



O, the green wothe botheth.



When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put


on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.



His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano


the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:



Tralala lala,


Tralala tralaladdy,


Tralala lala,


Tralala lala.



Uncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and


mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.

Answer:  A. the Narrator talks like a small child.

The inference shows that the reader can conclude that A. the narrator talks like a small child.

What is an inference?

An inference simply means the conclusion that can be reduced from the information in a story.

In this case, the inference shows that the reader can conclude that the narrator talks like a small child based on how the book we written.

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