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Read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game." "Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island," said Whitney. "It's rather a mystery—" "What island is it?" Rainsford asked. "The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition—" In writing this excerpt, the author employed

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In this excerpt the author employed dialogue and reported speech, this is evident because in the excerpt, two people are conversing actively, we know it is active due to the double inverted commas available, the double inverted commas are used to show that a text is an active speech.

For instance the sentence :

"It's rather a mystery"

Is an active speech, meaning that they are the same exact words of the character.

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