In analyzing T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
Correct answer: B. "Overheard inner speech"
- A. "A meditation on contradictions"
- B. "Overheard inner speech"
- C. "Implicit dialogue with the future"
- D. "Objective correlative"
Explanation
Prufrock's shifting questions and reflections resemble thoughts a listener overhears rather than a straightforward public speech. This technique is therefore described as "overheard inner speech," not the objective correlative, which is a theory of how emotion is represented.
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