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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
Answer:
The sentence has different meanings
Explanation:
The sentence is an ambiguous sentence with one or more meanings.
The sentence can cause confusion because of its different meanings.
As mentioned in the question, the sentence, " I shot an elephant in my pajamas" could mean either of two things:
1. The person had his pajamas on when he shot the elephant
Or
2. The pajamas was worn by the elephant when it was shot
Ambiguity can cause confusion because of their different meanings and should be avoided as much as possible when making speaking or writing.
Start with an outline. For me, an example would be...
Three things that define me.
1. Dance
a. dancing all the time
b. hanging out with dance friends.
2. Family
a. movie nights
b. cooking dinner together.
3. Art
a. drawing all the time
b. art classes.
Once you have put together a similar outline, you need to practice speaking and expanding on these topics. Get comfortable with details and write suggestive notes if you forget. When speaking, glance at your outline if you get nervous. :) Hope it helps! :) and good luck on your speech! :)
Explanation:
The little girl Miriam is a representation of death. ... She can also be seen as a figment of imagination as when the neighbor went to find the little girl, she was no where to be found. She approached her slowly then all at once, which is why Miriam's "Hello" is the end of the story.
B. They love one another very much.