Unit 4: Short Fiction II

The narrator's perspective in this passage can best be described as

The grandmother's assertion that "Your hands will remember" most fully suggests that

The detail that the grandmother spoke the language "only in the kitchen, except when no one was really listening" most directly conveys

The narrative structure of this passage — beginning with a confident assertion and ending with qualification — mirrors

The father's response to the mother's varying stories — smiling "as though hearing it for the first time" — most likely indicates

The narrator's reflection that "kindness requires context to become cruelty" most directly refers to

The progression from "obediently" to "competently" to "resentfully" reveals that the narrator's relationship to violin

The narrator's description of the apology as "the kind of sorry that has been rehearsed so many times it has lost its bones" uses metaphor to suggest that

The narrator's final observation — that "accurate memory in the service of repeated failure is its own particular cruelty" — is paradoxical because it suggests that

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

The setting of the passage — the grandmother's kitchen during a power outage — contributes to the scene's mood primarily by

Situational irony occurs when:

An author's use of foreshadowing contributes to:

A motif differs from a theme in that a motif is:

A dynamic character:

Deus ex machina is a plot device that:

A stock character is:

The contrast between the narrator's description of the garden and the interior of the house most likely represents

The final sentence of the passage creates an effect of