In “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily goes to the druggist and buys arsenic. In another scene, Homer Barron disappears. These are examples of (---) in the story.
Janine in The Handmaid’s Tale is a/an (---) in the story.
The Marquis hid "behind a façade of fault-finding." What poetic device is used here?
Offred reflects, “I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside…The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg”. In this story, an egg serves as what?
“Nick is there, still washing the car, whistling a little. He seems very far away. Dear God, I think, I will do anything you like. Now that you’ve let me off, I’ll obliterate myself, if that’s what you really want”. The latter part of this quote is an example of:
“Be he alive or be he head / I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.” We see (---) in the last words of this couplet.
Angela Carter writes: “The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers”. In my essay, I write: the tiger won’t succumb to the lamb; he does not form pacts that are not in his best interest. It is the lamb that must adapt to the tiger’s ways. Mine is a/an:
In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates, Arnold Friend is the (---) of the story.
Beauty was “wrapped up in tissue paper and red ribbon like a Christmas gift of crystallized fruit". The poetic device used above is:
When Offred looks out of the window from her room one morning, after playing Scrabble with the Commander, she recalls, “after I’d lost my job, Luke wanted to make love. Why didn’t I want to? Desperation alone should have driven me. But I still felt numbed. I could hardly even feel his hands on me”. This technique is called (---).
In the “Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, nature serves as the (---) of the story.
In “Cathedral” the husband who is reluctant to interact with a blind man serves as the (---) of the story.
What do the following lines establish?: “A chair, a table, a lamp. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of a wreath, and in the center of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out”.