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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Phoenix Marks

30 April, 17:40

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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Toby Franco · Answer 1

The excerpt best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s use of minimal punctuation.

As you can see in the excerpt, there is only one comma in the sentence, and there should be a period in the end. The sentence could be divided into smaller parts using commas or semi colons, however, Kerouac's style involves as few punctuation marks as possible.

No words are repeated, every word exists, and there is no dialogue, which is why the other options are incorrect.