In the above excerpt Welty was using sensory details (principally sounds) to bring her story to life, She could hear her father shaving, and her mother cooking breakfast. She could hear the whispers and whistles and the clattering of shoes as she raced downstairs. She remembered he sound of the old Victrola. She could smell the bacon frying. Through all of these sensory impressions Welty has built a vivid and memorable picture of her childhood.
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"The coach's rant after the loss fell on deaf ears as no one paid much attention."
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While the colony commanders were generally optimistic, as their task was to send the settler groups and hope for the best, the settlers had many other issues.
Despite the beauty and abundance of this new land, its wild and unknown aspects (hostile natives, new diseases, wild beasts) inspired both hope and fear to the settlers.
And the excerpt, from the begging, explores these feelings making the questions that the settlers might have asked themselves when entering Virginia.
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A. Its ability to use sound effects to bring a story to life.
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