Plot
Peyton “dug his fingers into the ____”, a type of loose soil (31).
What is sand?
“With their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. They hurt his ear like the trust of a knife” (paragraph 5). This sentence utilizes this literary device.
What is a simile?
Realism was considered ___ by many people after Romanticism.
What is radical?
This character is a supporter of the Confederacy and a slave owner.
Who is Peyton Fahrquar?
Romantic authors placed an emphasis on ___, or empowering the self.
What is individualism?
A man of this army rank stands on top of Peyton’s release board and causes him to hang.
What is Sergeant?
Peyton Fahrquhar is described as an “original secessionist” (paragraph 8). Define secessionist in this context.
What is a person in support of the South’s withdrawal from the Union?
This quote represents a characteristic of realism: “A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack feel to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners…” (1).
What is detailed description?
Peyton Fahrquar was from ___ and worked as a ___.
What is Alabama and a planter?
Authors such as Nathanial Hawthorne focused on the realm of the ___, which is not seen in this story.
What is supernatural?
This man informs Mr. Farquhar that wood near the end of the bridge is “dry and would burn like tinder” (16).
What is Federal Scout?
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.” (paragraph 2) In referencing Death metaphorically, Ambrose Bierce compares Death to this.
What is a man to be shown respect?
Peyton, as a slave owner, “was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause” (8). This causes him to be a realistic person from the south, and as someone who is who makes a ___ to follow the Confederacy.
What is moral decision?
Fahrquar talks about how “He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children” which characterizes him as someone who is ___ and ___ towards his family (5).
What is caring and loving?
“They have reached the Owl Creek bridge, put it in order and built a stockade on the north bank.” is an example of simple _____, instead of extravagant and excessive (10).
What is diction?
The Owl Creek story by Ambrose Bierce starts as this, a common practice in Greek epics.
What is in media res?
“By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famished.” (paragraph 34). This sentence utilizes these TWO literary devices.
What is alliteration and asyndeton?
“Fahrquhar and his wife were sitting on a rustic bench near the entrance to his grounds” is an example of Bierce creating an ___ for the characters to be in that reflects reality (9).
What is ordinary situation?
Ambrose Pierce talks about how for Peyton Fahrquar “No service was too humble for him to perform in the aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier…” characterizes him as someone who is ___ to what he believes in (8).
What is loyal?
Unlike Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bierce is contains some of her descriptions of ___ to under a sentence, like “a forest for a hundred yards” and “other bank of the stream was open ground” (2).
What is nature?
“He springs forwards with extended arms. As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck” is this point in the story (36).
What is climax?
“These pains appeared to flash along well defined lines of ramification and to beat with an inconceivably rapid periodicity” (paragraph 18). Define ramification.
What is a complex or unwelcome outcome of an event?
Bierce’s narration is ___, as with these excerpt: “These movements left the condemned man and the sergeant standing on the two ends of the same plank” (4).
What is detached?
Ambrose Pierce states how Mrs. Fahrquar “was only too happy to serve him with her own white hands” which shows how much they supported the ___, since the white slave owner was willing to serve him (9).
What is the Confederate army?
The majority of Bierce’s descriptions of ___ are small instead of deep explorations, like when Peyton sees his wife and thinks “Ah, how beautiful she is!” and “springs forwards with extended arms” (36).
What is emotions?