Unit 1: Short Fiction I

The narrator's description of the room serves primarily to

The detail that the clock "had stopped at twenty past four — whether morning or afternoon, no one could say" most effectively conveys

The phrase "as though she had grown into it" most nearly characterizes Mrs. Aldridge as

The narrator's tone in the passage is best described as

The contrast between the father's public behavior and his private ritual with the radio primarily suggests

The expression described as "something between homesickness and prayer" characterizes the father as

The narrator's decision to catalogue what the fire destroyed by what it did NOT destroy functions to

The final sentence — "We stared at each other across a canyon of language" — conveys the idea that

The narrator's use of lists — "the orchids, the bridge scores, the pronunciation of 'foyer'" — primarily serves to

The phrase "visitors who existed only in the subjunctive" means that the guest room is maintained for

The narrator's distinction between "a photograph of a place" and "a photograph of a memory disguised as a place" reveals

The narrator of this passage can best be described as

A first-person narrator is limited because:

An unreliable narrator creates meaning by:

Third-person omniscient narration allows:

Free indirect discourse blends:

Second-person point of view uses "you" and:

Narrative pacing is controlled through:

The narrator's description of the room primarily serves to

The phrase "the words were a stranger's" is best interpreted as