SHORT STORY Essential Terms used in Literary Quotations
Read each reading passage (or prompt), and choose the
best example.
"In the hard-packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the
people have gone to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn
fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired
children, sugar fluff crystals. salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice
cream and wooden sticks of lollipops." --
This section of this text from "Charlotte's Web" is an example of...
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Irony

Imagery

Explanation:

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.

the chosen symbology is the 'sweet secret' which anna confesses on january 6th.

anne's thoughts on her mother are further indication of her growing maturity and of her feelings of isolation from her mother.

the homoeroticism of this passage led it to be excluded from early editions of the journal. this passage shows anne's simultaneous innocense about and fascination with sex. she's clearly aware and unafraid of being sexual, but at the same time is seemingly unaware that her homosexual feelings could be considered taboo back then.

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