Question

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.

Answer 1

Minimal punctuation.

The excerpt shows Kerouac’s run-on, stream-of-consciousness style — no capitalization and few/long sentences rather than conventional punctuation.