Echo-questions

[Pablo Dominguez]

I wonder if there is a name for echo-questions that do not have a previous
equivalent text explicitly formulated? K Vonnegut, Jr. in Happy Birthday
Wanda June provides these instances:

(p.74)

HAROLD: We came up behind a sentry, and your father slit his throat before
he could utter a sound.

PAUL (involuntarily) Uck

HAROLD: Don't care for cold steel? A knife is worse than a bullit?

(p.72)

PAUL: Tell me some stories about Dad.

HAROLD (Unused to the word Dad) Dad? (Accepting it) Dad (To himself) The boy
wants tales of derring do. Name a country.

PAUL: England?

HAROLD (disgusted) Oh, hell.

PAU: Dad was never in England?







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