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Caesura and Poetic Punctuation
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APLIT.040 Caesura and Poetic Punctuation
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Original excerpt: "The doctor said, gently, that hope was a word with no pulse." What is the effect of the commas around "gently"?
A
They show that the doctor is mocking the patient openly.
B
They make "gently" the subject of the sentence rather than a manner of speaking.
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They isolate the bedside softness, making the clinical verdict more devastating by contrast.
D
They eliminate the tension between kindness and finality.
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