Unit 6: Longer Fiction or Drama II

The passage's structure — moving from the general ("Everyone agreed") to the specific (the final paragraph) — serves primarily to

The phrase "as though they belonged to someone she was trying to remember" most likely suggests

The narrator's characterization of the grandmother's stories as "archaeology in reverse" most nearly means

The narrator's description of the town as having "the posture of apology" employs personification to suggest

The barber pole "embedded in the new facade like a fossil in sedimentary rock" suggests that

The description of the restaurant as "a museum of their former selves" suggests that the space

The exchange in the final two lines — the unfinished question and the pre-emptive answer — reveals that the two characters

The narrator's claim that the doctor "had perfected the art of saying terrible things gently" characterizes Dr. Farrow as

Nadia's simultaneous gratitude and anger at the pronoun "we" reflects her awareness that

A soliloquy in drama serves to:

In medias res is a narrative technique that:

Dramatic irony occurs when:

A round character is one who:

An aside in drama:

The function of the final paragraph in the passage is to

The detail "without butter" at the end of the passage most effectively conveys

The narrator's repetition of "I did not" primarily functions to