characters
The Alabama planter is the main character who faces execution by hanging?
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
The story takes place on this type of structure over a river.
What is a railroad bridge?
This is the method of execution planned for Farquhar?
What is hanging?
The story is told from this narrative perspective?
What is third person limited?
The ticking watch symbolizes this concept central to the story?
What is time (or the passage of time)?
The mysterious visitor in gray uniform tricks Farquhar into attempting sabotage?
Who is the Federal scout (disguised as a Confederate soldier) ?
The bridge spans this body of water in Alabama?
What is Owl Creek?
Farquhar attempts to destroy this to help the Confederate cause?
What is the Owl Creek Bridge?
Bierce uses this technique to distort the reader's perception of time.
What is psychological realism (or stream of consciousness)?
Farquhar's imagined journey home represents this human desire?
What is the will to live (or hope)?
Farquhar's wife appears in this part of the story?
What is his fantasy/dream sequence (Part III)?
Story is set during this major American conflict?
What is the Civil War?
In his fantasy, Farquhar believes this happens to the rope?
What is it breaks/snaps?
The story's three-part structure represents this literary technique?
What is dramatic irony (or structural irony)?
The story explores this major theme about the nature of war?
What is the brutality/reality of war?