What is an anecdote? select one of the options below as your a. it is a long descriptive essay. b. it is a short account of a bigger story. c. it is a first-person account of a person's life. d. it is a third-person account of the subject's life.

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

Match the description to the character. 1. hopes to live in a quiet home and become a writer willie 2. hopes for more world awarenesmatch the description to the character. 1. hopes to live in a quiet home and become a writer willie 2. hopes for more world awareness and to live in a world without injustices sam 3. hopes to keep his job and avoid conflict hallys and to live in a world without injustices sam 3. hopes to keep his job and avoid conflict hally

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?