In the short story "Test" by Theordore Thomas, it is carefully constructed to offer the readers many unexpected twists and turns. Identify these twists and explain how the author intetionally misleads the audience in each case.

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Answer 1

Please help how? What are your questions about your assignment? (Take into consideration that there may be no one here who has read that work.)

Answer 2

Ok so there is a plot twist to th story and that is the "twist". But i do't know how the author "intentionally misleads the reader"?

Answer 3

By means of flashbacks or foreshadowing, authors indicate reasons why their characters do what they do. Sometimes, however, the foreshadowing can lead us readers to expect one thing, but something else happens. That would be a type of irony.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/types-of-irony-examples-definitions.html

http://udleditions.cast.org/craft_elm_foreshadowing.html

http://www.writersstore.com/the-use-of-flashbacks/

Did the author of this work use any of these to create his twist?

Answer 4

I don't think foreshadowing was used though, because the story starts with a guy after a driving test, driving his mom around when he meets two terrible accidents in which his mother starts to scream- another twist because the ride was going smoothly until now. Then plot twist, turns out that he was actually in his driving test and he was completely the hypnotized portion of the driving test(they want to see how he reacts to unfavourable situations to make sure they have the best drivers on the road). However, at the end he somehow is denied the privilige to drive as he failed his driving test- didn't really understand this part. Thank you for the advice, I will look into the techniques you mentioned.

Answer 5

Then the author has to be using at least one kind of irony.

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