What is one way readers can analyze the development of themes in a literary text?(1 point) Responses by analyzing the author’s choice of details by analyzing the author’s choice of details by researching stories about the human experience by researching stories about the human experience by defining key words and terms to promote understanding by defining key words and terms to promote understanding by looking for the author’s direct messages

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by analyzing the author’s choice of details
Use the passage from “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” to answer the question. Drag each line from the passage to the developing theme it supports.
the preciousness of life
perceptions of reality

By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home.

Striking through the thought of his dear ones was sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality

He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children.

They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. What he heard was the ticking of his watch.
By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home. - perceptions of reality

Striking through the thought of his dear ones was sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality - perceptions of reality

He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children. - the preciousness of life

They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. What he heard was the ticking of his watch. - perceptions of reality
How are the events told in a story with a linear chronology?(1 point) Responses in the order the events happen in the order the events happen as hints about future events as hints about future events by having an older narrator remembering events by having an older narrator remembering events as a series of flashbacks of different characters
In the order the events happen.