Question

Evaluate Equiano’s sentence fluency.

Once, for a few days, I was let out to fit a vessel, and I had no victuals allowed me by either party; at last I told my master of this treatment, and he took me away from it. In many of the estates, on the different islands where I used to be sent for rum or sugar, they would not deliver it to me, or any other negro; he was therefore obliged to send a white man along with me to those places; and then he used to pay him from fix to ten pisterines a day.


—The Interesting Narrative of the Life

of Olaudah Equiano


Overall, the fluency is best described as


natural and flowing.


choppy and incomplete.


loose and unstructured.


inconsistent and unconnected.

Answer 1

Overall, the fluency is best described as natural and flowing.

Step-by-step explanation:

Fluency is the flow or frequency of the rhythm of the narration. It involves the smoothness or ease with which a story is narrated or told.

In his autobiography "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano", the author and narrator Olaudah Equiano narrates how he was treated as a slave. The book is a work that is intended to bring the plight of the slaves for the whole world to witness and see the discrimination they faced. The particular passage/ excerpt provided in the question possess a fluency that is natural and free-flowing, possessing no hard words or any real complications in the flow of the narration.