Ambrose Biercs
Could someone that has read the story check my work?
1. The gray-clad soldier who tells Farquhar about the bridge is
on his way to the bridge.
a Federal scout. ******
frightened of being caught and hanged.
planning to burn the bridge.
2. Unimaginably, Farquhar seems to
survive the hanging. *****
fall off the bridge without the noose.
fight the soldiers and escape.
be rescued by the man who told him about the bridge.
3. A flashback occurs when
a writer gives subtle hints that something is going on.
a writer reminds the reader of something that happened at the beginning of a story.
a writer suspends the present story to recall an important event that affected the main character(s).*******
a writer tells a story “backwards.”
4. Anyone caught will be summarily punished. Which of the following best describes summarily?
adjective
adverb ******
verb
antecedent
5. Which Romantic writer's style is most similar to Ambrose Bierce's?
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne *****
Walt Whitman
2 answers
(It's a fascinating story, isn't it?)