Old Man at the Bridge
The old man says he left THESE THREE KINDS OF ANIMALS behind in San Carlos.
What are goats, a cat, and pigeons?
Mama shortens Dee's boyfriend's long name, Asalamalakim, to THIS NAME.
What is Hakim-a-barber?
THIS IS THE NAME OF THE NARRATOR'S MOTHER, the former trapeze artist.
Who is Anna?
The gray-clad soldier at Farquhar's gate who tricks him is actually THIS.
What is a Federal scout?
The quilts, the dasher, and Mama's final choice in "Everyday Use" all point to THIS CENTRAL THEME.
What is heritage?
In "Old Man at the Bridge," THIS VERB means the old man walked slowly and heavily because of exhaustion.
What is plodded?
In "Old Man at the Bridge," the old man worries about his animals under these large, heavy guns that shoot from far away.
What is artillery?
The old man says, "It's better not to think about the others," meaning THE ONLY ANIMALS WHOSE SURVIVAL IS STILL IN DOUBT.
What are the goats?
Dee says she will "think of something artistic to do" with THIS OBJECT, WHOSE WOOD HAS SINKS WORN BY MANY HANDS.
What is the dasher?
In the fall, Anna "changed direction" and GRABBED THIS instead of Harry's ankle.
What is a heavy wire?
Farquhar is tempted by the soldier's information because he longs for "the release of his energies" and for THIS.
What is "the opportunity for distinction" / recognition / glory?
In "A Brief History of the Short Story," the short story's rise and fall, from gift books to the Internet, is tied to THIS CENTRAL THEME.
What is media?
In "Everyday Use," the boys come around looking for Dee IN THIS WAY, hiding in the bushes and trying not to be noticed.
What is furtive?
At dinner in "Everyday Use," Hakim-a-barber skips these leafy greens, a Southern food.
What are collards?
THIS WEATHER DETAIL keeps the enemy planes grounded and is one of the old man's only two bits of "good luck."
What is the gray, overcast sky?
In Mama's dream Dee embraces her with tears in her eyes, yet Mama lists real strengths like killing and cleaning a hog. This shows she longs for Dee's approval but takes THIS FEELING in who she really is.
What is pride?
Anna learns to read and write while recovering in THIS PLACE.
What is the hospital?
The narrator calls Farquhar "the man who was engaged in being hanged." This phrase shows the narrator's TONE BEING THIS.
What is detached (ironic)?
The old man's abandoned animals in "Old Man at the Bridge" show what THIS VIOLENT CENTRAL THEME does to ordinary people's lives.
What is war?
In "The Leap," the narrator's father is "forgetful around the house and ______ exhausted." This word means constantly, without end.
What is perpetually?
The narrator's mother in "The Leap" is blind because of these clouded areas in her eyes.
What are cataracts?
The old man tries to stand and sits back down. THIS PLOT PART comes right after the climax.
What is the falling action?
Dee once called the quilts "old-fashioned, out of style" and now calls them "priceless." This shows her interest follows THIS instead of a bond with the quilts' makers.
What is a new idea of heritage?
Anna's palms "bore no lines, only the blank scar tissue of a quieter future." This phrase looks ahead to THIS CHANGE IN HER LIFE.
What is the end of her circus career?
According to the federal scout, the flood of last winter had lodged a great quantity of THIS, which are now dry and would burn like tow.
What is driftwood?
Anna risks her life for her daughter, and the narrator says, "I owe her my existence three times," revealing THIS CENTRAL THEME.
What is sacrifice?
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," silence and stillness are forms of this word, which means respectful yielding to someone else.
What is deference?
In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” this word names a guard standing watch.
What is a sentinel?
THIS AUTHOR wrote and published "Old Man at the Bridge."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Dee says she rejects the name Dee because it came from "the people who oppress me." THIS IS HER NEW FULL NAME.
What is Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo?
The final paragraph ties the narrator's fall to Anna's by repeating THESE TWO SOUNDS, turning disaster into comfort.
What are drums and thunder?
The last sentence, "Peyton Farquhar was dead," REVEALS THIS about the escape, and the final image shows HIS BODY DOING THIS beneath the bridge.
What is: the escape was imagined, and his body swung gently?
Farquhar's escape in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" feels completely real until the last paragraph. THIS CENTRAL THEME is the gap between what seems true and what only seems true.
What is illusion?
In "A Brief History of the Short Story," McCourt says the short story's fate was this tied to magazines, meaning so connected they cannot be separated.
What is inextricably?
In "A Brief History of the Short Story," these cheap magazines of the early 1900s printed science fiction, horror, and detective stories.
What are pulp magazines?
In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne collected a number of stories that he had written for the gift book market and published them to great critical acclaim as this title.
What is Twice Told Tales?
Two hundred years may seem quite a long time, but consider that the novel dates back to at least 1605 (the year Miguel de Cervantes published this novel) and you get a better idea of the short story's relative youth.
What is Don Quixote?
This author defined the literary form the short story as a tale that "can be read in one sitting."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?