Read the excerpt from "The Railroad Earth." the door knocks and it's the desk keeper of the flop hotel with silver rims and white hair and clean clothes and sickly potbelly said he was from Rocky Mount and looked like yes, he had been desk clerk of the Nash Buncome Association hotel down there in 50 successive heatwave summers The excerpt best illustrates Jack Kerouac's use of repetition. invented words. dialogue. minimal punctuation.

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Juliette Oneal

10 February, 16:46

Read the excerpt from "The Railroad Earth." the door knocks and it's the desk keeper of the flop hotel with silver rims and white hair and clean clothes and sickly potbelly said he was from Rocky Mount and looked like yes, he had been desk clerk of the Nash Buncome Association hotel down there in 50 successive heatwave summers The excerpt best illustrates Jack Kerouac's use of repetition. invented words. dialogue. minimal punctuation.

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Isaac Gaines · Answer 1

minimal punctuation

Explanation:

In the excerpt we can see one of the stylistic characteristics of the writings of Jack Kerouac: the minimal use of punctuation.

In fact, the excerpt uses punctuation so sparingly, that it could be difficult to read aloud. The whole excerpt only has one comma.