Short Story Quiz One

Name:Jordan Johnson Quiz One ENGL 200
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sound sentence. Use specific quotes/examples from the text to back up your points
whenever possible.
1. What is the narrative point of view in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”?
The narrative point of view in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is first-person
2. Explain the irony in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.”
The Irony is the doctor’s conclusion that Louise died of happiness “When the doctors
came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills” because her husband was
unharmed when in fact she died because her husband’s false death meant the death of her
freedom which also meant the death of her joy.
3. Explain the imagery in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.”
The imagery in “The Story of an Hour.” is used to convey emotion and tone. for example
“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all
aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the
street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some
one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the
eaves.” perfectly explains the budding springtime that is the new freedom she’ll be
experiencing after her husband’s death.
4. What line foreshadows Mrs. Mallard’s ultimate demise in Chopin’s “The Story of
an Hour”?
The very first line in the story gives it away “owing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a
heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her
husband’s death.”
5. What is the narrative point of view (who is telling the story) in William
Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?
The narrative point of view seems to be a collective consciousness of the townsfolk and
how they view Emily.
6. Give two examples of foreshadowing from Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.”
Two very telling signs for what’s to come is Emily’s insistence on buying Arsenic “The
druggist named several. “ ‘They'll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want
is—’
‘Arsenic,’ Miss Emily said. ‘Is that a good one?’
‘Is . . . arsenic? Yes, ma’am. But what you want—’
‘I want arsenic.’ “ lines 37-40
and her obsession with her dead father’s body “She told them that her father was not
dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying
to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law
and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.” line 27
7. Explain the symbolism of the dust in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.”
The dust repeatedly reinforces the concept of death and aging. the dust is almost always
described in tandem with bad smells and an unnerving patience “It smelled of dust and
disuse—a close, dank smell. “ Line 5
8. How do the townspeople treat Emily in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?

The townspeople treat Emily with respect patience but they also acknowledge the she’s
quite the pain to deal with due to her eccentricities and unwillingness to accept modern
accommodations. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of
hereditary obligation upon the town” Line 3
9. What is Miss Emily’s house symbolic of in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?
The house is literally and metaphorically a prison for Emily because she is chained down
by her habits and the limitations her father placed on her. “her father a spraddled
silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them
framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single,”
Line 25
10. Explain the significance of the rose in Faulkner “A Rose for Emily.”
The Rose is a mirror of Emily and her in life in “A Rose For Emily”.

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Name:Jordan Johnson Quiz One ENGL 200

2. Explain the irony in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.”

3. Explain the imagery in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.”

6. Give two examples of foreshadowing from Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.”

7. Explain the symbolism of the dust in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.”

8. How do the townspeople treat Emily in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?

9. What is Miss Emily’s house symbolic of in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”?

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