Question

Which of the following excerpts uses a parenthetical remark to create a conversational style?

A. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the Civil War.
B. Most of the time, it’s a white character using the word - or, most conspicuously, the novel itself, in ts voice - with an uglier edge
C. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this - they’re markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters.
D. It may represent the colosseum American literature came to producing an analog for “Ulysses,” which influenced it deeply - each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history - and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.

Answer 1

Option D uses a parenthetical remark to create a conversational style with an aside about the book's reception, making it informal and engaging to the reader.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine which excerpt uses a parenthetical remark to create a conversational style, we should look for the example that includes additional information or an aside - typically within dashes or parentheses - that offers a personal or informal tone as if the narrator or character is speaking directly to the reader.

Option D includes a parenthetical remark that creates a conversational style. This is evident in the excerpt "...and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed." The use of the parenthetical dashes to enclose an aside about the book's reception by readers adds a conversational layer to the narrative and invites the reader to consider their own relationship with the mentioned novels, thereby establishing a more informal, conversational tone.

Answer 2

A. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the Civil War.
B. Most of the time, it’s a white character using the word - or, most conspicuously, the novel itself, in ts voice - with an uglier edge
C. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this - they’re markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters.
D. It may represent the colosseum American literature came to producing an analog for “Ulysses,” which influenced it deeply - each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history - and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.