What's More Now Let's Exercise! Task 4: Identifying Direct Quotations Directions: The following are paragraphs taken from the story "Arachne" as retold by Olivia Coolidge. Analyze each paragraph and in your activity notebook, copy all sentences with direct signals. Make sure to never miss any dialogue and conversation from the text. 1.-2. At last Arachne's fame became so great that people used to come from far and wide to watch her working. Even the graceful nymphs would steal in from stream or forest and peep shyly through the dark doorway, watching in wonder the white arms of Arachne as she stood at the loom and threw the shuttle from hand to hand between the hanging threads, or drew out the long wool, fine as a hair, from the distaff as she sat spinning. "Surely Athena herself must have taught her," people would murmur to one another. "Who else could know the secret of such marvelous skill?" 6​