Intro to Short Fiction

Readers experience various perspectives that can create a more complex understanding of events.

Readers are given definitive conclusions about the morality of characters’ actions.

Readers are guided toward confusion due to inconsistent storytelling techniques.

Readers receive consistent opinions that lead to a singular interpretation of events.

Person vs. self

Person vs. nature

Person vs. society

Person vs. person

Person vs. self

Person vs. nature

Person vs. person

Person vs. society

It can imply that arranged marriages were uncommon and frowned upon in society.

It may highlight the social and economic pressures on women to marry.

It could indicate that love was the primary reason for marriage during that time.

It might suggest that marriages were typically based on mutual interests and hobbies.

It reduces complexity by ensuring that there is no need for further characterization or development beyond the ending.

It invites multiple interpretations and fosters ongoing discussion among readers about possible outcomes.

It focuses attention exclusively on the protagonist’s perspective of events without ambiguity.

It provides clear closure and ties up all loose ends within the plot for definitive understanding.

Subplots involving other figures can mirror complement contrast main issue shedding light complexity core struggle.

Subplot resolutions always occur before culminating event thus precluding any impact finale.

Subplots distract attention away principal confrontations diminishing importance overall message conveyed.

Subplots exist independent autonomously having little bearing whatsoever upon larger scheme things transpiring.

By using descriptive language to create vivid settings that overshadow character-driven themes.

By revealing characters’ private thoughts and feelings, it deepens understanding of personal themes.

By employing third-person narration to provide unbiased insight into universal themes.

By presenting dialogue without author commentary, which confuses thematic messages.

INCORRECT. It emphasizes recurring motifs through parallelism found in both framing and inner stories.

INCORRECT. It focalizes specific motifs by relegating them exclusively to certain parts of either narrative layer.

INCORRECT. It allows for direct comparisons between motifs presented in different layers enhancing thematic contrast.

CORRECT. It complicates layers of meaning, requiring discernment between primary and secondary narratives’ influences on motifs.

The Southern dialect spoken by characters reinforces regional identity but not plot progression.

Landmarks such as rivers serve merely as symbolic elements without influencing character actions or decisions directly on their quest.

The heat accentuates Addie Bundren's decaying body but is not central to shaping events or relationships.

The remoteness adds challenges to the Bundren family's journey, creating tension within their dynamic.

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Flashback

Foreshadowing