Symbols
Narrative Perspective &
Language
Allusions
Application & Analysis
Application & Analysis II
100
Of the eight symbols listed, Addie Bundren is referred to as which two symbols during the novel?
The Fish and Jewel's Horse
100
"I noticed then how he was beginning to hump-a tall man and young-so that he looked already like a tall bird hunched in the cold weather, on the wagon seat."
What literary device is this?
100
Who does Addie consider to be her savior?
Jewel
100
What physical state is Addie in during her narration?
DEAD
100
Which of Addie's children did she love the most?
Jewel
200
Which of the symbols listed plays a key role in the black humor Faulkner uses during the building of Addie's coffin?
Cash's Tools
200
After reading Addie's chapter, her personality is best described as...
Cold, hostile, isolated, mean, morbid, etc (all of the above)
200
What biblical symbol is Addie compared to?
A Fish
200
During Addie's chapter she reveals to the reader that she has discovered that words (lack/hold) great meaning-choose one.
Lack
200
Vardaman accidentally drilling holes into Addie's head because he thinks she needs to breathe is an example of?
Black Humor
300
Just as Addie is represented by a fish, what symbol is used to represent Darl?
The Toy Train
300
Does Addie's bluntness reveal her to be a more or less reliable narrator?
More
300
Addie is considered a perversion of what kind of figure?
A Christ-Like Figure
300
According to Addie, what is the artificial substitution for experiences by those who have not had them?
Words
300
Which character believed that Addie was "blind to sin?"
Cora
400
Which of the symbols listed represents the Bundren's cyclic lifestyle?
Wheels and Circles
400
This insightful and descriptive passage best exemplifies which literary device? "It would be quiet there then, with the water bubbling up and away and the sun slanting quiet in the trees and the quiet smelling of damp and rotting leaves and new earth; especially in the early spring, for it was worst then."
Diction
400
Holes being drilled through Addie's head could be related to which part of Jesus' crucifixion?
The Crown of Thorns
400
Addie's ultimate fate being to die and to emotionlessly fulfill family obligations is an example of what?
Existentialism
400
Black humor can be seen when Cash is building Addie's coffin in what location?
Outside her window
500
Which of the symbols listed is represented by the Bundren family?
The Buzzards
500
What literary device does this quote passage represent: "I would lie by him in the dark, hearing the dark land talking of God's love and His beauty and His sin; hearing the dark voicelessness in which the words are the deeds, and the other words that are not deeds, that are just the gaps in people's lacks, coming down like the cries of the geese out of the wild darkness in the old terrible nights, fuming at the deeds like orphans to whom are pointed out in a crowd two faces and told, That is your father, your mother."
Personification
500
When Addie refers to one of her sons as her "cross and salvation," what does she say he will save her from in relation to the bible?
Water and Fire
500
Which of Addie's family members is responsible for Addie's nihilistic view of life?
Addie's father
500
Why did Addie have Dewey Dell and Vardaman?
To atone for her affair
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