Collins wants to get water from the well because....
What is the other men dared him to go?
100
A group of writers who dissect human instincts and behavior and how people are "conditioned" by the society they live in.
What are Naturalists?
100
A major cause of the civil war.
What is slavery?
100
sed, sid, sess
What is to sit; to settle?
200
He was tricked by a Union scout into planning to burn down the Owl Creek Bridge.
What is the reason Payton is being executed?
200
By the time Collins asks permission to go to the well, does he feel that he can back out?
What is no? The others have teased him so much he feels he has to go.
200
An educated guess based on context clues and background knowledge.
What is prediction?
200
A popular author that gave personal accounts of people held in slavery and the horrors of it.
What is Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs?
200
son
What is sound?
300
When Farquhar hears his watch ticking with an exaggerated intensity, the point of view the author is using is ______.
What is Third-person limited?
300
Collins most likely does not consider himself a hero because...
What is he feels heroes live blameless lives and he has regrets of past actions?
300
One example/type of verbal irony.
What is understatement, exaggeration, and sarcasm?
300
The first battle/shots of the Civil War were at...
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
300
somn
What is sleep?
400
Going back within a story to an earlier time/event.
What is a flashback.
400
The ending of the story is ironic because...
What is the bucket ends up empty?
400
Emphasis on real characters and situations, harsh realities, social problems, and ordinary behavior.
What is Realism?
400
This author experienced the war first hand by serving as a volunteer in a hospital.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
tac, tic
What is silent?
500
When the events on the bridge are being described and the narrator reports that the gray-clad horseman was a Federal scout the point of view being used is ____.
What is objective third-person point of view?
500
Collins surviving his water escapade, even though the battle rages on is an example of...
What is situational irony?
500
Records and reports scenes without comment.
What is objective point of view?
500
The economy of which part of the country recovered quickest after the war...