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"Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him."
--from "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

Which sentence uses ellipses correctly when integrating this quotation?
A) Hayden writes that "No one ever thanked . . . " his father.
B) Hayden describes how his father "put his clothes on . . . in the blueblack cold."
C) Hayden says that his father "made banked fires . . . No one ever thanked him."
D) Hayden writes that ". . . my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold."

Answer :

The sentence which uses ellipses correctly when integrating this quotation is:

C) Hayden says that his father "made banked fires . . . No one ever thanked him." 

The main functions of ellipsis as a literary device are to present the whole sections of the text it represents which are omitted but do not alter its overall meaning; and to denote unfinished thought to create a brief silence, in which the sentence above incorporates. 

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