By using as fast as it creates imagery that makes the reader believe he turn the light on as fast as he could. In a literal sense he didn’t figurative language is used to describe something in a fun way. (Or at least that’s how I remember it)
<em>The aspects of a story that best help the reader understand the author, I think, are imagery, repetition, and tone. These three help make the thoughts of the author concrete and understandable. Even more so than imagery and repetition, tone is often known and noted to be very important in understanding the author's purposes. </em>
<em>Plot and setting have more to do with characters than with the author's intentions, although they still do.</em>
<em>-Toremi</em>
The feeling invoked by the author is to show the freedom of accepting of fate by the narrator.
Explanation:
The feelings described here are numerous in small amount of time. The feeling of the narrator is at first described to be strangely fearless.
This makes one think that there is something to fear which is why it has become fearless.
But then the author describes the feeling by the use of imagery and we understand that Phil is in fact drowning and these emotions are his understanding that he will now not survive at all.
There is no chance to survive so he accepts his fate and feels strangely free.
Answer:
<u>Option B. The words "What I felt" best establish immediacy in the above excerpt.</u>
Explanation:
In the excerpt from "Eavesdropping" written by Eudora Welty, the author establishes immediacy in the story line by the use of words such as "What I felt." Immediacy is defined as the quality of bringing into a direct involvement with something, which gives a right sense of some sort of urgency. In literature immediacy is used to state directness and a lack of an intervention agent within the plot. When using words such as "What I felt" the reader is getting the direct and immediate perception of the character rather than a washed-out observation.
