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Why does Sarty Snopes insist that his father was brave? How does your knowledge of events unknown to the boy create irony?

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When the narrator says that "we sent her a tax notice" , "we would see her in one of the downstairs windows" whom does "we" indicate?

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What is the author's point of view in these paragraphs and which personal pronoun signals the point of view? Explain what makes this unique in fiction.

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What does this exchange indicate bout emily's character? what foreshadowing do u sense in her refusal to comply with the law?

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What makes a story like A rose For Emily so compelling?

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Point of view. How would the use of multiple narrators affect A rose for Emily's story?

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What is ur initial reaction to Emily? Cite two examples of figurative language in lines 42-49. Explain what feeling create.

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What is ur initial reaction to Emily? Cite two examples of figurative language in lines 42-49. Explain what feeling create.

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why might Faulkner have chosen to immediately announce Emily's death before revealing more about her life in Part I ?

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What role does the Civil War play in “Barn Burning”? What does Abner Snope’s behavior during the war tell readers about his character?

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Why does Ab Snopes burn barns? Do you think his actions are justified? Explain your reasoning?

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What conflicts are presented in “Barn Burning”? Are any of these conflicts avoidable? Which, if any, are resolved in the story? Explain.

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“Barn Burning” includes a great deal of dialogue. How would you characterize the level of diction of this dialogue? What information about various characters does it provide?

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What is the point of view of the italicized passages? What do readers learn from them? Do they create irony? How would the story have been different without these passages?

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What is the point of view of the italicized passages? What do readers learn from them? Do they create irony? How would the story have been different without these passages?

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Is the third-person narrator of “Barn Burning” omniscient, or is his omniscience limited? Explain.

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In the First and Second books of Samuel in the Old Testament, abner was a relative of King Saul and commander in chief of his armies. Abner supported King Saul against David and was killed as a result of his own jealousy and rage. What, if any, significan

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. Despite the story’s confusing sequence, many events are foreshadowed. Give some examples of this technique. How does foreshadowing enrich the story?

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Where does the exposition end and the movement toward the story’s climax begin? Where does the resolution stage begin?

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Emily is clearly the story’s protagonist. In the sense that he opposes her wishes, Homer is the antagonist. What other characters-or what larger forces-are in conflict with Emily?

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Some critics have suggested that Miss Emily Grierson is a kind of symbol of the Old South, with its outdated ideas of chivalry, formal manners, and tradition. In what sense is she also a victim of those values?

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The original version of “A Rose for Emily” included a two-page deathbed scene revealing that Tobe, Emily’s servant, has shared her terrible secret all these years and that Emily has left her house to him? Why do you think Faulkner deleted this scene

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The narrator of the story is an observer, not a participant. Who might this narrator be? Do you think the narrator is male or female? How do you suppose the narrator might know so much about Emily? Why do you think the narrator uses we instead of I?

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Explain how each of these phrases moves the story’s plot along: “So she vanquished them, horse and foot…” (par. 15); “After a week or two the smell went away” (par. 24); “And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron” (par. 47); “And so s

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Arrange these events in the sequence in which they actually occur: Homer’s arrival in town, the alderman’s visit, Emily’s purchase of poison, Colonel Sartoris’s decision to remit Emily’s taxes, the development of the odor around Emily’s house,

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