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“How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk "My Faulkner." Barth “reorchestrated” his literary heroes, he says, “in search of my writerly self... downloading my innumerable predecessors as only an insatiable green apprentice can.” Surely a great many writers can relate when Barth says, “it was Faulkner at his most involuted and incantatory who most enchanted me.” For many a writer, the Faulknerian sentence is an irresistible labyrinth. His syntax has a way of weaving itself into the unconscious, emerging as fair to middling imitation.
While studying at Johns Hopkins University, Barth found himself writing about his native Eastern Shore Maryland in a pastiche style of “middle Faulkner and late Joyce.” He may have won some praise from a visiting young William Styron, “but the finished opus didn’t fly—for one thing, because Faulkner intimately knew his Snopses and Compsons and Sartorises, as I did not know my made-up denizens of the Maryland marsh.” The advice to write only what you know may not be worth much as a universal commandment. But studying the way that Faulkner wrote when he turned to the subjects he knew best provides an object lesson on how powerful a literary resource intimacy can be
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im guessing metropolis
"Montag and the group watch helplessly as bombers fly overhead and annihilate the city with nuclear weapons" (wikipedia)
451 Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns
tale is a great lesson on the importance of memorization!
A denouement is the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
And based off the answers...
A. By returning to the original location, Bierce ends the story by contrasting Druse's actions to the beginning of the story.
B. The description of the Federal sergeant crawling to Druse allows Bierce to show how the soldiers must remain hidden.
C. Describing Druse's location and feelings allows Bierce to enhance how monstrous Druse feels at the end of the story.
D. Through the setting, Bierce is able to explain the climax and resolve Druse's feelings about killing his father.
I believe that the correct answer is D.
<span>The beginning of an MLA citation is "lastname, firstname". B and C don't follow this, so you can eliminate them. Then you notice at the end of the citation, the pages cited has to be preceded by a "pp". Choice A doesn't follow that, so we can also eliminate that choice. The remaining choice "D" is a correct citation.
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D. Individualism.
Individual differences were frowned upon during the puritan time.
