Which of the following elements did you include in
your answer? Check all of the boxes that apply to
your answer.
examples of imagery
examples of paradox
examples of subjective observations
inferences about experiences
the fact that the reader feels like a part of the
story

“edge” is one of the past poems plath wrote before her suicide. how does knowing this information affect your understanding of the poem?

Read the excerpt. … in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people. … i was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-european feeling was very bitter. … as a police officer i was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … i had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … i was all for the burmese and all against their oppressors, the british. what is the situational irony in the excerpt from “shooting an elephant” by george orwell? the narrator is a british police officer and part of the system he dislikes. the narrator is himself a well-liked member of the burmese government. the narrator has recently become a burmese citizen. the narrator has decided to leave the british empire.

In this unit we learned about arguments and