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Southern Gothicism/Authors
A Rose for Emily
A Rose for Emily
A Good Man is Hard to Find
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Southern Gothicism is a sub-genre of ...

Gothicism

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What does Emily represent?

The antebellum South

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Name an element of foreshadowing that could have predicted the ending.
What is the smell, the buying of rat poisoning, the fact Emily would not give up her father's body.
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What is the theme of the story?

A person’s morality cannot be determined by their appearances

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  • Where was William Faulkner from and what was his greatest award for writing?

Oxford, Mississippi

Nobel Prize


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Homer Barron represents:

The opportunistic North

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This is what the horsewhip represents.
What is a male-dominated society.
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Explain the relationship the grandmother has with her son?              

strained because they are very different

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Where was Flannery O'Connor from and what religion did she follow?

Savannah, Georgia

Catholic  

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This is unique about the narrator of "A Rose".
What is they speak on behalf of the entire town.
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This is what it's called when an author tells the story out of order..
What is circumlocution.
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How does describing the grandmother as “a parched old turkey crying for water” in paragraph 132 contribute to her characterization?

It emphasizes the grandmother’s desperation in the situation.

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The five defining features of Southern Gothicism include: 

outsiders, freakishness, violence, imprisionment, sense of place 

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This is where the title of "A Rose" comes from.
What is a tribute to Emily, who Faulkner feels sorry for.
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These are Emily's and Homer's physical symbols in the story.
What is the house and the new streets.
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This is the Biblical reference made between the Grandmother and the Misfit.

What is that she represents Jesus and he represents Judas.

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Flannery O’Connor believes that transformation cannot occur without: (two things)

pain and violence 

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This is the overall theme of "A Rose".
What is that if you do not accept change, you must love and live with death.
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This is noblesse oblige.
What is duty of the upper classes to set an example for the lower classes.
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This is how the Misfit is a "good" man in the end.
What is that he causes her to transform and thus be saved.